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Americans collectively love fetishizing Ireland, and a relatively high number of white Americans would qualify for Irish citizenship because you can get it if you have an Irish grandparent. I wonder if it’s because it’s not exotic enough. Or because they think it’s 1950 and everyone there is still a devout Catholic who keeps their cows in their rural cottage.The same applies to most south americans that don't want to go to Yankeeland: they end up coming to Europe. Mainly Spain and Portugal from the obvious close ties and the language barrier being virtually nonexistent. When you are in the shit that Argentina is right now, being in Spain and earning minimum wage sounds like a pretty sweet deal even if Spain is getting screwed ever slowly. Same applies to Brazilians who either go to Portugal or Spain. Overall, everyone knows it's better to be destitute and scraping by in Europe than in South America/Middle East/South east Asia/Africa.
And on the subject of Muricans coming over to Europe, i think they actively avoid Ireland and the UK thanks to the skewed perspective they have on them. But i don't have enough insight on this to know if Ireland is still considered "Deep Catholics with beer island" and the UK is "Terf Island". Yet, like you say, i don't get why the decide to go to the Netherlands/France/Germany/Greece when they don't know the language. They will be rightfully screwed in every sense of the word if shit mildly hits the fan in matters of rent, labour, healthcare or law enforcement. And god forbid they end up going to a village or a not so big town where only the oddball speaks english at the tourist information centre. In some cases i think this retardation of going to non english speaking countries is because of the fantasy of reconnecting with their ancestry or some political bullshit like commies going to France.
Troons don’t realize that nobody likes them anywhere.