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Originally Posted by diy01  Agreed. Of course not.
Looking long-term, what aspects of Irish 'culture' are most likely to sustain that distinctiveness? Or has the game changed completely?
I suppose what I'm trying to get at is...are these similarities due more to the special relationship between Ireland and Britain historically, or more the result of EU homogenisation? In other words, things which every country goes through in its relationship with its larger, more influential neighbour(s). Whether it's New Zealand with Australia, Canada and the USA, Ukraine and Russia etc... |
White Kiwis and Aussies are virtually the same as one another - Act, sound and play the same games virtually.
There is virtually no difference between Canadians and Americans - Given how many "Canadians" act in US Film & TV, play US sports etc that shows how different they really are. Canada the country tries to be different by being overly liberal than America................ theres a sizeable french-speaking minority in both places and they have the same native population.
Russians and Ukranians are different because of dialect mainly but still from the same linguistic-ethno family