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Global Irish Soft Power

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Bizarre Differences Between German and Irish Americans

There's a huge number of German Americans, Americans with German heritage. How come they don't feel as German? And they're more subsumed into American culture. I see this as giving back to Irishness, because they have given us so much. There's an element of cathedral thinking, that kind of long term thinking. Instead of physical structures is a building a perception. You're building castles in the mind. Castles in the mind Actually, the heroes in themind. The most American general who conquered Germany was German. If you think about it, right? That's what happened.

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