It probably is from a young man. It seems to be a fairly common view held by younger generations of people (especially the ones with a lack of education). I encountered it quite a bit when I lived in Ireland. I rarely encountered it in anyone over the age of forty.
There are no longer waves of emigration from the UK and Ireland to the New World. The cultural and familial links for many (on both sides of the Atlantic) are growing tenuous or disappearing. The younger Irish and British people don't often understand the difference between ethnicity and citizenship, because it is usually one and the same for them.
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