As far as I know, the Irish were once thought to be intellectually & genetically inferior, and in fact really did score lower on IQ tests.
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Do you not remember the endless Irish jokes in which the Irish person's stupidity is revealed?
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Oh yes! The Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman walking into a bar. In jokes. Not an assumption actually made in reality.
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I think that sometimes there really was *some* underlying stereotyping. But in many other cases it was just dumb jokes.
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