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I Am Irish

Do you think Irish American's have a poor temper and are stubborn because it is how they adapted from being treated the way they were when they settled in America?

I mean most people from Ireland doesn't have an ill temper, as far as I know, most of them assure me they don't, but here you better look out we sure do have a hot temper. (I mean not me personally but you know what I mean)
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Peaches · F
It might have a lot to do with it, not being treated well will bring out the worst in any people. 🥀
hami1091 · 41-45, F
Yes it sure does.
Peaches · F
@hami1091: 😥
I tend to be nervous about generalizing any group of people; you almost always meet individuals who don't fit the stereotypes.
hami1091 · 41-45, F
@bijouxbroussard: Your and my opinion will always differ there, and that's okay. I don't think so, I will not celebrate the first black president until I see one in office. That law is outdated and just something else that was set forth to divide and separate the blacks and the whites. I don't think it takes more courage to be black than it does to be called any one race. I think it takes courage to stand and say I am multiracial or biracial and I am proud of all of my bloodline and who I am. Just like all the crap the cheerios company got over their commercial. My nephews birth certificate says multiracial just as every other modern baby born with more than one race should and he will be raised to be proud of himself and who he is, he won't be raised to be black or to be white or to be Indian but to embrace his full bloodline as it should be. And the same will be if the day comes that my crazy stepkid and his gf goofs up (and I say goof-up because they are way too young to be parents no matter what she thinks.) that baby will be raised to embrace the complete package not just part of it.
@hami1091: Unless you've been black you have no way of knowing. And for someone who hasn't experienced either personally to judge "courage" is incredibly arrogant.
hami1091 · 41-45, F
@bijouxbroussard: As I said our opinions differ and it makes us human. You have the right to believe what you believe as do I and we each only have the experience of our own personal environments. Saying unless I've been black would be like saying unless you been redheaded or even more vague unless you've walked a mile in my shoes. I have been blessed until recently the only racism I ever saw today was when I got online or have to venture out 200 miles south (Now there's a family of trash that moved in, on our quiet little peaceful community) and there are many blacks who thankfully don't know in the way that you do because they are not living in an environment where so much hate and racism is still alive, though there are many places where it still breathes too much. I think we are going in the right direction and someday hopefully in the next generations to come it will be less and less. It is out there it exist. We don't have to feed it. We don't have to let it consume us or make us bitter or make us less proud of who we are. And we don't have to deny one blood to fully support another. We should raise our children with not only love and kindness but to fully embrace themselves and each other. :)
I think that's just on of those things people say. I don't think it's true about all.
hami1091 · 41-45, F
I agree
SW-User
My root are Irish.. I'm Canadian..and have no temper 😔
hami1091 · 41-45, F
Stereotypical Americans seem to think Irish have ill tempers and are stubborn. My mother's family arrived in America nearly 200 years ago, so we are far from Irish.... we are American but tell my grandparents that and you will wish you'd never spoke. I don't think I agree with it at all, perhaps in Canada, Irish aren't stereotyped that way.
SW-User
@hami1091: i could not tell.. i learned that I had Irish roots a fee few yrs ago.as I was adopted.. my grandfather immigrated here when young.. that's the only root I know as I don't know my father's side and never will
Footballstar · 26-30, M
I can confirm Irish people have a temper but not as big a temper as is made out. But the thing I think is different is Irish people tend to be able to, for lack of a better word, control their temper. Also Irish people have very little self entitlement so don't have very much to get angry about so temper tends to just come out on the Gaa pitch.
I don't know if that made much sense but that's my two cents
Coppercoil · M
Often overlooked fact Irish were the first slaves in the new world. They were treated terribly.. then the Africans started getting brought here. They were superior genetically to be out in the sun all day Woking hard or perhaps the Irish were too antagonistic.. maybe both. regardless nobody wanted white Irish anymore so they were phased out and often even bread with black slaves.seems. It's part of forgotten or suppressed history.
hami1091 · 41-45, F
As I was saying, do you think that is what makes Irish Americans more ill-tempered than people who live in Ireland because they weren't exactly treated well on their arrival here?
Coppercoil · M
They've never been treated well anywhere.. the British have been trying to genocide them for ages. I think they are ill tempered because everyone is always trying to abuse them historically. It gets passed down.. the ones that got to pass sown their genes were probsbly the ones that were the toughest. perhaps some epigenetics as well as social conditioning.
Coppercoil, indentured servants were not slaves. That is a revisionist fiction some in the U.S. have concocted to minimize the nation's participation in the Atlantic Slave Trade. 🙄
LikeMind · M
American-Irish, is a different thing to Irish. From what I've seen A/I's aspire to be full on Irish. In how they project themselves in manner and accent, they come across as caricature versions of the real thing.
As to firey tempers, a number that I've met could, as we say in Liverpool, "Cause murder in an empty room!"
LikeMind · M
A mad Irishman tore mine off!!
😃😃 @hami1091:
hami1091 · 41-45, F
@LikeMind: 😕 😜 😂
LikeMind · M
......... In an empty room! 😄😄 @hami1091:
OKWTF2 · 51-55, M
Well, my wife is an international flight attendant and when their European base was changed from Germany to Ireland it was leaked that they sometimes are charted by the DOD. The Irish were opposed to the Afghan war at the time (I suppose still are from the whole middle east never-ending-conflict-crap-hole) and caused at least a million dollars in damage to a plane during their 'protest'.

Point being, no one group or nationality has a fixed set on temper or passionate, if poorly expressed, anger over any other group.

We all have our moments (incidentally, I am mostly Irish on my Dad's side, French on my Mom's).
hami1091 · 41-45, F
I agree with you that no one nationality has a fixed set of temper. :)

 
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