That's the advantage of having a clearly defined ethnic identity (irish) You have ground to claim it. It's not like french for instance or even american. What does french or american means these days? It means anything and everything, from abdul to muhamad to robert to shlomo If it means everything and anything then it's nothing, it's just an administrative label not grounded in any tangible reality, it's papers basically. There's nothing but an administrative status as common denominator Needless to say that, it's weak to say the least, to define a nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation >>**A nation is a stable community of people**, formed on the basis of **a common language, territory, history, ethnicity**, or psychological make-up manifested in **a common culture**. With unchecked mass immigration combined to zero assimilation you can't get any of that, evidently