It's because a lot of Irish immigrants came over to North America not too long ago and national pride grew in them because of how they were treated, so they see not upholding those cultural norms as being a betrayal of their ancestors who did maintain them in another land.
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A lot of them came to Britain too. You'd struggle to find any working class English person that has no Irish ancestry at all. Yet we don't bang on about it constantly.
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Because Brits weren't/aren't as openly confrontational about differences, I'd argue, and those who went to Britain instead were those already more like the British to begin with, too. Note he's not saying that they're not Irish, just "they've forgotten what being Irish is about".
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What utter crap. So now the Irish people that went to Britain weren't really Irish. The real Irish people went to America. It's not because the journey was shorter, safer and cheaper.
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Clean your glasses off and re-read the last sentence I wrote.
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"those who went to Britain instead were those already more like the British to begin with". What else could you mean by that?
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That they had more in common with them socioculturally, which is why rather than risk ocean travel to move to the wild frontier lands and industrial cities of America to strike out on their own, they chose the safer, closer locale? Nothing to do with "really being Irish" or not.
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They didn't come here to farm. They went to industrial cities here because there were jobs. Catholicism was all but wiped out in England before the Irish came. They weren't similar.
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Don't need to share a religion to be similar, socioculturally. Similarly, can share a religion and be very different, socioculturally. Also, nowhere did I say that they went to Britain to farm...?
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You insinuated that America had monopoly on industrial cities, when Britain was the wealthiest, most industrialised nation on the planet at the time. Being Catholic was a big deal back then. We still have a festival every year where they burn effigies of a Catholic terrorist
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Can ye tag me out? Cheers
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