American people of Irish descent

research and reading articles, it is safe to say that it would be wise to stick against reparations. The reasons for that, would be because it is simply too hard to identify who exactly is the descent of a slave. It would also be difficult to confirm whether or not an individual who is claiming to be a descent, to really be one without proper documentation; something that was not properly done back then. It would as well be different to obtain the finances to actually pay back these debts.…

black/white binary is something that will always be present in America. People of different ethnicities and races, coalesced or not, will always be treated differently, whether it be because of their skin color, other physical features, cultural origin, or nativism. Ethnorace is a term used for someone who has assimilated into a different society than their ancestry, in this case the American society, by being raised with American cultural values and a Christian religion. Despite their parents…

due to the amount of people immigrating here the water started to become contaminated in a short period of time. In other words, it stunk, and the place was filled with disease. Nobody wanted to live there except the poorest of the poor. When the Irish began immigrating to the city due to the Great Irish famine, Irish immigrants began over piling into the Five Points and making the neighborhood their new home. One of the main…

matter how long immigrants of color reside in the US, they become targeted as foreign threats.” Ordinarily, people who have multiple ethnicities that have white in them claim that race. By reason of fright from what people would say about them. In Dallas, Texas a 21-year-old girl named Lena talked about life being if you looked white. Her father is Arab and her mother is of white descent, she described herself favoring her mother’s side rather than her fathers. She explained why she had to dye…

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is called Éire in Irish and is also known as the Republic of Ireland. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, in the northeast of the island. The United Kingdom is the only country…

The way people viewed others back in the day was much different than how it is now. No one judged one another by their skin color, but by where they came from geologically. Race was something made up by the european settler in the english colonies for economic power. There’s a trend of degrading a certain group of people for economic and political gain. The two groups that endured this torture and cruelty were the africans and irish. Although they endured this torture and cruelty in different…

Cultural context in “who’s Irish.” Culture is the characteristic and knowledge of a particular group of people; national identity has been the main reason as to why countries exist and disparities between individual countries exist too. Immigrants over a long period of time have moved to the United States to work, develop businesses or enjoy freedom. The United States of America has been known for a long time to be a great country that welcomes any individual regardless of race, color or gender.…

with an Irish dialect, called an Irish brogue. The Irish not only use some words in a way that is different from the way that they are used in America, but they also speak the language with a rhythm and tone that is often hard for many Americans to understand. Americans say, “How are you?” Irish immigrants may say “Hawareya?” In an effort to loosely simulate Jerry’s brogue, the following mythical conversation dealing with New…

privileges or disadvantages that come with not only being mixed-race but proud as well. Speaking to the Irish in me, while they are white and therefore have an undisputable privilege just in how they look, of the European nations, the Irish were the most oppressed. The attitudes in Europe are still somewhat negative towards this group of people, whether it be jokes about negative stereotypes concerning the people of Ireland themselves (often associated as being short, angry, redheaded drunks who…

The United Province’s economy during the Golden Age of the United Provinces is a shining example of positive impacts from immigration. “There was an extraordinary volume of property, materials, good and services on the market, all available at a moment’s notice.”2 Important contributors to Amsterdam’s seemingly endless abundance of goods and capital were indeed immigrants seeking both economic opportunity and asylum. “Among the stream of refugees—French Protestants, [those from Antwerp], Jews…