marriage

[Losty]

Patty = Patricia, Paddy = Patrick. Unless St Patrick had a sex change and started going by "Patricia" by the end, he's not Patty.

If you were born in America, raised in America and live in America, you're American. If you were born in Ireland, raised in Ireland, or have lived long-term in Ireland, you might be Irish. That's kinda how nationality works.

Are we no longer allowed to use Irish to describe our ethnicity?
Of course Americans are American, but it's not the same as for many other countries. Saying you're American does nothing to describe yourself to a person.

[Phatt Matt s]

Patty = Patricia, Paddy = Patrick. Unless St Patrick had a sex change and started going by "Patricia" by the end, he's not Patty.

If you were born in America, raised in America and live in America, you're American. If you were born in Ireland, raised in Ireland, or have lived long-term in Ireland, you might be Irish. That's kinda how nationality works.

Yeah and people call me matty all the time.
Sticks and stones bitch!

My ancestors were irish.

[NoraBrimstone]

Irish is not an ethnicity, it's a nationality.

[Losty]

Irish is not an ethnicity, it's a nationality.

Lol
Well I'm American, but I tell people I'm German Irish all the time. My great grandparents moved here from Germany when my grandparents were kids. My mother' family I don't know as much about but according to my great grandmother her ancestors moved here from Ireland at some point.
So I tell people I'm German/Irish they know what I mean.

[*Deidre*]

There is also the problem of consummating such a ''marriage''...