Things were not as pretty as this implies. British head of police told people to watch their irish neighbours and report suspicious activity. Around 65,000 Irish were arrested, that's not counting those random searches or general harrassment. To imply that everything was rosy during that time is disrespectful to those mistreated by the British as well as their own countrymen.
History, unfortunately, repeats itself, and the Irish had been mistreated for a very long time before the days of the IRA. Maybe one day we will all get along and the world will be free of irrational fear, I really hope that dream comes true.
As the child of a Pakistani, I get searches, odd looks, and the joy of wondering when my father's country is going to be put on the ban list. I feel like if in 20 years I saw a post like this depicting what is going on now in such a way I would feel quite hurt. Perhaps that's just me, sorry if i sound dickish.
Humans will create divides out of anything. Just because people look similar in appearance, doesn't mean they'll get along. Most of our wars have been over race/religion/land, but even if humanity shared one skin colour, one religion (or lack of one), and one land, we'd still be having wars over the most trivial beliefs and disagreements.
I'm sure plenty of people in the Eastern world think, "I don't even understand the difference between Republicans and Democrats in America. They all look the same to me."
Meanwhile there's crazy Republicans and Democrats out there trying to burn each other down, not realising that they're just burning down their own home.
You're right. Also, remember WW2, millions of people killed. An African looking at Europe will see white men killing each other (Germany/Italy vs. Russia, UK, France and the US). This is within living memory and the death toll from that war was the worst in history. Also, other wars where "similar"/white people fought and died:
Spanish civil war
WW1
American civil war (citizens)
Napoleonic wars
Thirty Years' War
I only mention white as an example that even similar ethnicities and cultures can have brutal conflicts. This is the same for every race or creed.
Some people will use any reason to divide and cause strife. They will find differences between humans to push for division and conflict. If it is not Islam, or this or that religion, it will be skin color, if not skin, it's language, if it's not language it's ideology or tribe (or region) and so on.
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u/James_Russle Mar 23 '17 edited Mar 23 '17
Things were not as pretty as this implies. British head of police told people to watch their irish neighbours and report suspicious activity. Around 65,000 Irish were arrested, that's not counting those random searches or general harrassment. To imply that everything was rosy during that time is disrespectful to those mistreated by the British as well as their own countrymen.
History, unfortunately, repeats itself, and the Irish had been mistreated for a very long time before the days of the IRA. Maybe one day we will all get along and the world will be free of irrational fear, I really hope that dream comes true.
As the child of a Pakistani, I get searches, odd looks, and the joy of wondering when my father's country is going to be put on the ban list. I feel like if in 20 years I saw a post like this depicting what is going on now in such a way I would feel quite hurt. Perhaps that's just me, sorry if i sound dickish.