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Originally Posted by Expletive Deleted
Well, since America is essentially a nation of immigrants, most of us tend to be as proud of our ancestry as we are of our nation.
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People most of their behavioural cues from other people, so I guess if everybody else has interesting ancestry then it becomes a conversation topic, because most people have something to talk about. In the UK, the majority of people are outright English, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese or West Indian and thus its pretty obvious where their descent lies. There's a comparitively small number of mixed-race people. The only real exception is those of Irish heritage, who (like Irish-Americans) do tend to blabber on about it.