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I watched news broadcasts during the time Kate and William were getting married, and the news reports were showing people in the US as being more excited about the Royal Wedding than British people who were aware of the costs for the taxpayer for their wedding during times of economic cutbacks.
I think that people outside of the UK may view monarchies as being glamourous in the way they see them in their media, whereas people who actually live under monarchy systems are more aware of the reality that it isn't glamourous for many people.
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I simply refer to myself as part Northern Irish not because I hate Ireland, but just because Northern Ireland is where most of my Irish ancestors were located. Of course, when people ask, I usually just say I'm 1/4 Irish. Northern Ireland is where my Irish roots were located, but my blood is simply Irish.
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Katariina on peräisin Oulun ja Lapin läänistä. Kippis, kaverit!
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How interesting! Part of my ancestry includes people with Scottish names like Baird, Robertson and Lawson coming from Northern Ireland and settling in North Carolina and Virginia before going on to Kentucky and Tennessee. They were fervent Protestants, even as many of us are today.
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Quite right! In fact, I'm pretty sure that our Scots- Irish settlers had anything but pleasant experiences with the British government and were quite eager to take up arms to keep themselves from getting thrown off what they considered their land again. I understand that it was hard to make a living in late 1600s Ulster if you weren't Anglican and that the Presbyterians were hard put to make an honest living. Considering how the Scottish settlers in Ulster did everything they could to stick to their Protestant faith ( the Siege of Derry comes to mind) and support King William, their treatment at the hands of their landlords must have felt like a body- blow.
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I support a united Cyprus, too.
TNRC is Turkish imperialism/colonialism. Northern Ireland and Gibraltar are British colonialism/imperialism.
Sicily is an island with 10,000 years of its own human history. I'm not advocating splitting it into multiple countries, merely gradually making its emergence back to independence, as Italian unification has been a disaster for Sicily.
Ah, per fortuna un uomo può sognare... un uomo può sognare.
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They are Scottish Protestants. Nothing wrong with that. There is a good book on Scots-Irish called "Born Fighting" which essentially says they are not Irish from a cultural standpoint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Fighting
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