Father fell out with me over the census...

Perhaps he's having a mini identity crisis?

Stupidest thing to fall out over.

Then I can't talk.

First time my mum kicked me out the house was because I tried to help her with he remote control.

He obv hadn't eaten his spuds.

My father is fully Irish; both my grandparents being Irish but I am only half because on my mother's side they are all Scottish.

Anyway, my dad is a nationalist but it can be to an annoying point occasionally; as he wants all these different things for the Irish community in Scotland in a time of cuts. He is actually the most influential person in my life and I'm probably closer to him than almost anyone else, but what happened yesterday was ridiculous:

He came over the visit me and I was filling in the census while he was there. There were two sections as y'all know, for national identity and then ethnic minority. I put 'Scottish' and then Irish at the 'other' bit at the bottom because I am half and half. When it came to ethnic minorities he asked that I tick 'Irish' rather than Scottish - and that showing that there is a large Irish community in Scotland will make the government more likely to agree to putting time and money into Irish resources(all very flak, i.e. what resources exactly, and again, what I said about cuts^).

Now, I feel a stronger sense of Scottish identity and was thinking in one hundred years if some ancestor is doing some family history research will see I've put 'Irish'; which wouldn't be correct. So I ticked 'Scottish', at which point he lost all rationality(he's usually v. rational), saying he's 'very disappointed' and my grandmother would be 'disgusted' if she were alive!

I mean, someone tell me he's behaved completely out of order here and I've not done anything wrong? In the nineteen years of my life I can honestly say we've never had such a fight and I'm miserable over this. He has now apologised but said he should've done more to 'instill a stronger sense of Irish identity'(!!)

I see my dad all the time and we never, ever fight over this, let alone discuss it really.

He obv hadn't eaten his spuds.

Likely because there was a famine.

My father is fully Irish; both my grandparents being Irish but I am only half because on my mother's side they are all Scottish.

Anyway, my dad is a nationalist but it can be to an annoying point occasionally; as he wants all these different things for the Irish community in Scotland in a time of cuts. He is actually the most influential person in my life and I'm probably closer to him than almost anyone else, but what happened yesterday was ridiculous:

He came over the visit me and I was filling in the census while he was there. There were two sections as y'all know, for national identity and then ethnic minority. I put 'Scottish' and then Irish at the 'other' bit at the bottom because I am half and half. When it came to ethnic minorities he asked that I tick 'Irish' rather than Scottish - and that showing that there is a large Irish community in Scotland will make the government more likely to agree to putting time and money into Irish resources(all very flak, i.e. what resources exactly, and again, what I said about cuts^).

Now, I feel a stronger sense of Scottish identity and was thinking in one hundred years if some ancestor is doing some family history research will see I've put 'Irish'; which wouldn't be correct. So I ticked 'Scottish', at which point he lost all rationality(he's usually v. rational), saying he's 'very disappointed' and my grandmother would be 'disgusted' if she were alive!

I mean, someone tell me he's behaved completely out of order here and I've not done anything wrong? In the nineteen years of my life I can honestly say we've never had such a fight and I'm miserable over this. He has now apologised but said he should've done more to 'instill a stronger sense of Irish identity'(!!)

I see my dad all the time and we never, ever fight over this, let alone discuss it really.

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Stupidest thing to fall out over.

Then again I can't talk.

First time my mum kicked me out the house was because I tried to help her with the remote control.

If he wants to be Irish, then tell him to **** off back to Ireland.

You are born in Scotland, you are Scottish.

Don't get involved with all the rubbish we get about pretending to be Irish or whatever. You're born and bred in this nation, not Ireland.