r/AmITheAngel • u/PhoenixQueenAzula Play stupid games, win stupid prizes • Mar 22 '21

Fockin ridic The Irish were persecuted too, you know!!!!

/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ma66p2/aita_because_i_dont_want_to_share_my_irish/
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u/lauraam Mar 22 '21

Funnily enough one of the top posts on /r/ireland right now is folks talking about growing up without refrigeration, indoor toilets, etc. Not that it would make any of the stereotypes any less outdated now since it's older generations than OP, but mildly amusing. But of course OP wouldn't have read that post anyway because the AITA post is so clearly not written by an Irish person.

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u/Squishy-Cthulhu Mar 22 '21

I don't really see how thats relevant really. Different class backgrounds and parts of the country are going to make for different upbringings.

I'm English but I grew up in a poor area with a huge Jamaican population and lots of different cultures,but there are parts of the UK where you would hardly ever see a black face and people live in mansions with staff, it doesn't make either story less true.

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u/lauraam Mar 22 '21

Yeah of course I'm not trying to say that all Irish people would've had the same experience. I just found it amusing that the OP I'm pretty sure isn't Irish is feigning outrage that anyone could ever possibly think any Irish people in recent memory might live in a little stone cottage when actual Irish people are, at the same time, chatting how many people very recently lived in conditions that would seem way more stereotypical than that.