>>..it does make people feel uncomfortable and unwelcome..

Does it really? Have they told you that, or are you feeling offended on their behalf?

I'm from an Irish / Scottish background.

Maybe I should start crying and wailing, next time someone in the office says, at lunchtime, that they're "starving" - --because it reminds me of the Irish Famine. It might even be cultural appropriation to claim to be "starving" if you're not from a part of the world which has suffered famine.

And if I walk past any shops holding a "Clearance Sale", I'll most likely pass out from the sheer horror of being reminded what my ancestors went through, during the Highland Clearances.