Michael Fassbender says he considers himself Irish, despite having lived in London for 20 years.
The 39-year-old actor was born in Germany to a German father and an Irish mother. He moved to Kerry at the age of two, and spent his entire childhood and adolescence in the Kingdom.
"I definitely still consider myself Irish. Yes, yes. And I’m definitely European," he told The Guardian newspaper.
"I would never consider myself British."
Fassbender says that the British media only try to claim him when he's doing well.
>person raised in country considers themselves a citizen of that country What's the issue? It's not like he's being a plastic paddy or anything
Gavin Morgan
Good man, never trust the eternal anglo
Christian Garcia
>Fassbender says that the British media only try to claim him when he's doing well.
>"If I’m not, I’m Irish," he laughed.
Kek. We're the same with Scots. See Andy (British when he wins, Scot when he loses) Murray.
Nicholas King
That stuff never fails to be funny because you know the commentator is pissing off loads of people. The olympics are great for it, it's "the plucky Brit" or "Briton" or whatever when they win and the "Welsh/Scot" when they fuck up.
Cooper Morales
Who the fuck calls him British? People who have never seen him talk outside of a film?
John Barnes
>Irish >Definitely European
Not so fast, Paddy.
Adam Jenkins
Of course he's not British, he lives in London.
Aaron Phillips
Just because you're physically located somewhere doesn't mean you're the same as the natives. An irish/german guy living in england still isn't english.
Jayden Turner
>An Irishman doesn't consider himself British colour me surprised
Anthony Perry
by that logic white americans are still europeans, not americans. And the black ones are still african.
Evan Campbell
>Fassbender says that the British media only try to claim him when he's doing well. >"If I’m not, I’m Irish," he laughed. the question is: when are you ever doing well fass
Ryder Perez
I guess he won't play Bond then.
Colton King
yes, and?
Owen Jenkins
fucking of COURSE not. he's irish
Ryan Miller
Brosnan was Irish, Connery was Scottish, and Lazenby was Australian.
Julian Howard
I'd rather him play the villain then
Daniel Foster
>Fassbender says that the British media only try to claim him when he's doing well. >"If I’m not, I’m Irish," he laughed.
As a Scot I can relate to this feel but Fass fucked his own career and betrayed kino.
Joseph Hughes
Aren't Lennon and McCartney both ethnically Irish? Everyone considers them English though
Levi Johnson
Why does anyone give a fuck what he considers himself and why does he feel it necessary to state it? He performs well in almost everything he's in and that's all that matters.
Eli Perry
So he's confirmed that he isn't white.
Lincoln Murphy
Eternal Anglo btfo for eternity
Hudson Peterson
>The 39-year-old actor was born in Germany Oh, so he's German.
Connor Powell
He's just butthurt that he wasn't cast as Bond Maybe if he was better at choosing his films and didn't take every piece of shit script that landed on his desk, he'd be a respected actor by now and not a fucking meme
Charles Hill
/ourguy/
Ayden Jackson
The Irish have a frankly superior sense of style desu
Adrian King
>the Kingdom Wut?
Jaxon Barnes
Westeros
Juan Lopez
This.
Hunger was this potato nigger's best film too.
Joshua Torres
BASED A S E D
Fuck the eternal anglo
Hudson Clark
The Saffron kilt comes from the British army. As does Tartan actually. Gaelic nationalism is quite a modern thing.
Gavin White
But he is a PaddyKraut. Do we really need to claim him?
Chase Russell
And that's retarded.
I bet he's still avoiding British Tax though.
How can people be so ungrateful to Britain? 20 years, here since 19 years old and still feels like he owes the country nothing. I hate people like him so much.
Jackson Turner
This, Fassbender is based.
Cooper Carter
How will the eternal anglo ever recover from this?
pic related btw, the face of Britain sports.
Nathaniel Baker
>anglo >white kek
Daniel Cox
>born in germany he's as irish as gibson is australian
Owen Clark
His white mum loved black dick.
Blake King
Hahahaha imagine being, fucking Irish?! Haha. Ooh wait, all of the upper East Coast of the US apparently claim they too are Irish despite only being maybe 1/5th Irish.
Nathaniel Bailey
Right, this is starting to grip my shit. I've literally never heard or seen the media do this. The only people who fucking complain about it are the non-English with massive chips. And I'm not even fucking English.
Fucking hell you lot have got me going. Not even all the Sup Forums shit manages that.
Carter Phillips
Being spat on by an irishman is enough over there
Dominic Parker
Err ok? We don't consider you British either m8.
Daniel Turner
I'm from Kerry too. We call it The Kingdom.
Henry Baker
The UK is such a meme
Kevin Turner
>1/5th Irish. lol
Benjamin Moore
No true native says crap like I'm British'. I'm English. British is one step away from 'citizen of the world' hippie shit.
Andrew Walker
This. I honestly wouldn't mind if the UK broke up because I'm sick of assblasted Scots, Paddies, and sheep shaggeers complaining about us crumpet munchers. I thought it was a meme but when I meet these people they personally hate me unironically. They can fuck off
Angel White
I'm a burger, but from the perspective of an outsider looking in, the sitaution reminds me of pic-related, with the guy being the English and the mob of rabid feminists being various groups claiming victimhood or whatever the fuck, like the micks, the scots, etc
Nathaniel Allen
>The Saffron kilt comes from the British army. As does Tartan actually. That's like saying the British army invented pants. They modified existing Irish and Scottish dress, they didn't invent them wholesale. >Gaelic nationalism is quite a modern thing. There's been a shared Gaelic identity basically as far back as the Irish have been writing stuff down. "Gaelic Nationalism" as a modern political movement is new, sure, but the Irish annals are full of references to the Scots and Manx also being Gaels.
Jeremiah Barnes
They are just salty cunts that can never move on.
Carter Ross
I want it to break up for the memes, also did Fassbender donate any cash to the Irish when they needed a financial bailout or does he hide his money in a British overseas territory?
LuL
We're used to it, if anyone actually picks up a history book and reads they'll realise the Irish are not innocent dindus, they are actually pretty scummy and have been for hundreds of years. They preach about Celtic unity yet they blackmailed and kept Welsh slaves (St Patrick the famous one). They invaded Wales and England (when they formed an alliance with Constantine of Scotland) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brunanburh
They got completely fucked the fuck up and are still buttmad over it. Along with their failed invasion and take over which led to the rise of Oliver Cromwell and the Levelers Movement.
>DYNDU NUFFINK!!!!
The Welsh are the only loyal ones because they know how scummy the Scots and the Irish really are.
Joseph Garcia
>British is one step away from 'citizen of the world' hippie shit. although you are in fact citizens of the brown world
Angel Long
>How can people be so ungrateful to Britain he's Irish
Oliver Gray
>The potato famine was just a meme. >They didnt come over to America by the boatload in order to find a new life. >I'm a big fucking moron who doesnt understand how migration works and all those Americans are lying about their easily established heritage. >Also all the Americans how arent Irish but celebrate Irish holidays in order to party and have fun are stupid!
Levi Murphy
t. 56%
Matthew Thomas
Don't forget the whole let the French use Ireland as a launching pad to invade England
Wyatt Powell
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brunanburh There were no Gaels at Brunanburh, it was the Vikings of Ireland who fought there. They weren't Irish. In fact they were fighting the Irish as hard as they were fighting the Saxons.
>Along with their failed invasion and take over which led to the rise of Oliver Cromwell and the Levelers Movement. Are all Anglos this historically retarded?
Tyler Morris
England raised the most amount of financial aid to help with the Irish famine. Even though agricultural laws were first introduced into Essex, the Highland Potato Famine was taking place and Cholera outbreaks/heatwave was going on across Europe and hitting England/Wales pretty hard.
Devolution was given to Ireland and they had their own Irish landlords. The only thing Braveheart got right was how backstabbing Scottish clan leaders were, they were like that in Ireland and to an extent Wales had them (England also had them but most fled during and after Boudicca's uprising). They would stab their own family in the back for a shekel.
Read up on the Black Dinner, the Glen Coe Massacre etc.
They talk about Anglos being scum? LOL.......
>DYNDU!
Cooper Anderson
>Continentals >White
lmao nice try wuz nuthin
Asher Davis
a paki, chinese and indian are just as much british as you or me
Jason Taylor
>There were no Gaels at Brunanburh, it was the Vikings of Ireland who fought there. They weren't Irish. In fact they were fighting the Irish as hard as they were fighting the Saxons.
You're a dumb piece of shit, your subservient people to the BIG VIKING DICK were used as soldiers, you enslaved your own brothers and sisters in Wales and you got rekt. So you shut your whore mouth you traitor.
>Are all Anglos this historically retarded?
Stupid nigger... Catholic divine monarch under the House Stuart who had vested interests in Ireland, who Ireland supported to rule the Crown of England and rule over that of Parliament. Go fuck yourself.
>Bitch tits plastic paddy never read a history book Suck it little nigger, suck it good.
Ryder Davis
Born in based Heidelberg and speaks fluent German.
Jason Morgan
Every fucking thread in Sup Forums. Every fucking one.
Justin Allen
>your subservient people to the BIG VIKING DICK were used as soldiers Not that user but come on dude at least try
Carson Russell
>anglo education >reddit spacing
Tyler Edwards
He was raised in Ireland though, and he's ethnically half Irish. Just because he was born in Germany doesn't make him more German.
Amy Adams was born in Italy, do you consider her Italian?
Joshua Murphy
They are both. America is a young country created by Europeans, that there just happened to be natives there didn't change that, they didn't have any concept of a country.
Jackson Jones
>Fassbender says that the British media only try to claim him when he's doing well. >"If I’m not, I’m Irish," he laughed. This happens all the time, any time an Irish person makes it big and becomes famous the Brits try to claim them. Once they do something bad or fall out of the limelight they are Irish.
Hudson Williams
...
Kayden Rodriguez
Yes.
Kayden Robinson
Name one example
Christian Bell
Name one fucking instance where this has fucking happened.
Jackson Turner
Based Fassbender. The anglo is the devil. I remember how we laughed when some english helicopter went down. Good times.
Chase Martinez
Andy Murray becomes Scottish when he loses
Jackson Morris
Well, you're an idiot then.
Your ethnicity and the culture you were raised in are far more important than where the hospital you were born in is located
Connor Baker
Americans have a retarded concept of nationality and think that being born on a certain patch of soil suddenly makes them indistinguishable from everyone else. Like how they think that just because some guatemalan mayan woman shits out a baby after crossing the border into burgerland, that baby is 100% american same as anyone descended from the pioneers.
Elijah Scott
Haha, ok, bud
Austin Phillips
I think you read someone wrong. He said he WASN'T British.
Ian Rogers
>Saoirse ronan >Rory McIlroy >Padraig harrington >Shane Lowry >Ruth Negga There's five off the top of my head. If you really want to piss off an entire country and have every irish person collectly clench our ansuses you just need to claim an Irish person is British.
Jonathan Thomas
He's right.
I was born in a hospital in England. Grew up in England. I don't consider myself English - ethnically I'm not, culturally I'm not. A lot of this is down to get yelled at as a kid to "go back to where I came from". Makes it difficult to identify with that particular culture. I'm certainly British though - but that's my nationality.
Caleb Campbell
Give me proof this has happened to any one of these potato munchers
Juan Rivera
Are you fucking touched in the head? I only vaguely recognise the first two of those and nobody thinks they're fucking British.
>Are you fucking touched in the head? I only vaguely recognise the first two of those and nobody thinks they're fucking British. The British media does.
Andrew Evans
Shut the fuck up, Basil. You know he's right.
Joshua Wood
Heh. Stick with your faulty logic, kid.
Jacob Campbell
Close! But yeah, fuck Pakistan.
Josiah Jones
OHNONONONONO bruh look at this dude
Isaac Adams
I'll wait for you to refute it. Won't hold my breath tho
Jayden Cook
Duke of Wellington
Charles Howard
>And I’m definitely European since when did europeans refer to themselves as europeans
Thomas Perry
Go back to Gujarat
Alexander Young
I don't debate with toddler-tier intellects. Stay mad, though, champ.
Matthew Moore
>a German father and an Irish mother Two countries thoroughly cucked by England that go great together!
Brayden Wright
He doesn’t even look European
Adrian Collins
that's right england, germany was all you. it's not like two superpowers literally divided it in half
Ryan Smith
burger here
i hope england gets nuked but the other countries emerge unscathed
Jason Howard
>Fassbender says that the British media only try to claim him when he's doing well. >"If I’m not, I’m Irish," he laughed. Fuckin based.