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Ah dudes, I'm not talking about cultural identity, dammit! I'm talking about civilisation - the unspoken agreement we all have that limits how nasty we can be to one another. The thing that enables you to work at a job, get paid on time, save up a few hundred quid of that money in your credit union account, take the money out in cash and walk down the street with it in your pocket and give in exchange for something you want and carry that home on the bus and keep it until you don't want it anymore, all without having to worry (too much) about it being taken from you somewhere along the way. Most people in the world can't count on being able to do that.We can't lose something we don't really have. What is Irishness? I view cultural identity as something that is fluid