The Bombshell
Monday, March 17, 2008 at 12:56pm
My mom raised me Scottish. My Dad raised me Scottish. It was almost like Nazi propaganda how hard they drilled it into me that being Scottish was something special and that my 100% pure Scottish blood set me apart from the crowd.
They taught me to correct people that said they were Ukrainian or Irish etc, if they hadn't in fact been born in the Ukraine or Ireland, and tell them that they were Canadian. I was indoctrinated into a Scottish Supremacy ideology.
Then, only a few years ago...the bombshell. My great grandfather was Irish!
In one fell swoop I was no different than every other Canadian mutt. In fact, with the views on the Irish that my Mom threw at me I was probably a little worse off than the average Canadian mutt. There was nothing left, and is still nothing left but for me to say
Happy St. Patrick's Day. Kiss me, I'm (sob) Irish.
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