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Originally Posted by Pinion
You're also wrong about Australia. It's overwhelmingly English, and Italian is taught as a second language in school. Or at least it was when I lived in Sydney in the 80s. Not sure why you didn't just look this up.
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I didn't say that Irish was the largest ancestry group in Australia. I said it was the most undercounted. In the 19th century Irish immigrants made up a larger proportion of the population than in the US or Canada. There's no way Australia is only 10% Irish ancestry.