and that john lennon singing o lucky man! "if you had the luck o the irish, ye'd be sorry and wish ye was dead..." -- ono actually sounds good on that one! so, curse me, i'm irish! yar! ; P
I think it also kind of misses the point of what's anti-Irish about St P's day: that it is a celebration of the Catholic devastation of Irish culture by forcibly and murderously converting the Celtic population. That's who Patrick is; a British overseer of colonial assimilation. Not, himself, an Irish gentleman.
The stereotyping angle is a weird thing to complain about in North America - in 2012, the descendants of Irish immigrants are absolutely part of mainstream white culture and privilege, and by no means discriminated against as an ethnic group. It's impolite to impose stereotypes, but of negligible impact from a civil rights perspective.
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and that john lennon singing o lucky man! "if you had the luck o the irish, ye'd be sorry and wish ye was dead..." -- ono actually sounds good on that one!
so, curse me, i'm irish!
yar!
; P
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I think it also kind of misses the point of what's anti-Irish about St P's day: that it is a celebration of the Catholic devastation of Irish culture by forcibly and murderously converting the Celtic population. That's who Patrick is; a British overseer of colonial assimilation. Not, himself, an Irish gentleman.
The stereotyping angle is a weird thing to complain about in North America - in 2012, the descendants of Irish immigrants are absolutely part of mainstream white culture and privilege, and by no means discriminated against as an ethnic group. It's impolite to impose stereotypes, but of negligible impact from a civil rights perspective.
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