Why do Americans think that because their ancestors are from another country (e.g. Ireland), then that makes themselves Irish.

Why does Jon think he is Italian?

It doesn't make them anything. They are American.

I was in a bar in Toronto last week and was talking to someone from the US. She told me she was actually English so I asked her where in England she had been. SHe told me she had never been to England; her grandparents were from there. What a &#000102ucking joke.