u/Win-Specific

I’m having hard time understanding this concept. For example I’ve heard people say they have Irish grandparents, one Irish parent and one Scottish parent but they were born in England and so they identity as English. How is this possible if their only link is where they were born and their family roots are elsewhere? And what about children of Irish/Scottish immigrants and an English parent (so they would be half English) who do face some prejudice in England, how can they think of themselves as English when the people around them don’t?

Is there any evidence of any of Tsar Nicholas’s children not feeling Russian because their ancestry was entirely German and Danish?

After decades of bloodshed and constant war who would’ve thought that it would be one Irishman who would bring down the Emperor of the French! Is Wellington a respected Irishman in Ireland?