Irish Stereotypes

I can very distinctly remember starting my blog off with the fact that the Protestants hated the Catholics and we all know that when you hate someone, man ole man do you hate everything about them !!! While watching the video we learned that the protestants grew more and more hostile as the Catholics grew in numbers. The protestants became so angry that they started rioting and burning down buildings and churches. That is the part of the past as well as the future that I absolutely cannot stand. For someone to commit horrible crimes in the name of religion. The last I read, God didn 't cheer on violence and the killing of innocent people because they didn 't believe in him. BUT....... then I guess if you want to stand on the other side of the …show more content…
Just as the discussion started out, everyone arrives at basically the same conclusion just that there are different ways to get there. When asked to discuss two stereotypes that Greely discussed I picked the Italians and the Irish. I can say that the two stereotypes are and are not true about both. People see the Italians as all mob people that lie, steal, kill and take whatever they want. Yes, there are ones like that but look at all the average law abiding Italians. The other one discussed is Irish and how they are kind of the same spirit. Angry, drunk and fighting and yes, that does commonly occur amongst pubs and bars but look at all the ones that don 't even drink. I laughed though bc of the sports teams logo is the FIGHTING IRISH. HaHa That kind of supports what people say about them. I think that a lot of Catholic men that are involved with the church have to deal with rumors about sexual assualt and sodomy. I could imagine for a law abiding man that wants to work with children FOR THE RIGHT REASON it is very hard with that stereotype always in your