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Easter Rising vs modern day terrorism

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    #122
    O'Coonassa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭O'Coonassa


    jimmmy wrote: »
    The first settlers came to Ireland from Britain. It was much closer than any Basque region. Even today you can see Ireland from Scotland on a clear day.

    So then in your book everybody must be Brits lol If you investigate you'll find those Brits came from the Basque region.


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    #123
    Exile 1798
    Registered Users Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Exile 1798


    jimmmy wrote: »
    The first settlers came to Ireland from Britain. It was much closer than any Basque region. Even today you can see Ireland from Scotland on a clear day.

    Yes, you can see Ireland from some Gaelic speaking Scottish Islands...

    What exactly was your point, a chara?


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    #124
    ilkhanid
    Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭ilkhanid


    O'Coonassa wrote: »
    So then in your book everybody must be Brits lol If you investigate you'll find those Brits came from the Basque region.

    Everybody in Ireland is really a Brit; every Brit is really Basque; every Basque is really an african and so on back to the Great Rift Valley. Most people are very closely related in genetic terms, even those who look very different. There is little to differentiate a Serb and a Kosovan, an Abkhazian and a Georgian,a Hutu and a Tutsi.The problem is culture and history. It is that which creates imagined communities that people call races, nations, religions...or what have you.


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    #125
    Erin Go Brath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭Erin Go Brath


    ilkhanid wrote: »
    Everybody in Ireland is really a Brit; every Brit is really Basque; every Basque is really an african and so on back to the Great Rift Valley. Most people are very closely related in genetic terms, even those who look very different. There is little to differentiate a Serb and a Kosovan, an Abkhazian and a Georgian,a Hutu and a Tutsi.The problem is culture and history. It is that which creates imagined communities that people call races, nations, religions...or what have you.
    And we're all related to adam and eve etc etc etc. Like it or not the world is divided into different nations with different customs, cultures etc. Its what makes the world an interesting place. The world would be quite boring if all the countries in it were exactly the same.

    By your way of thinking nobody would bother to support the Ireland soccer team for example. If Italy or Germany beat us thats just great because we're all the same anyway.


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    #126
    ilkhanid
    Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭ilkhanid


    "And we're all related to adam and eve etc etc etc. Like it or not the world is divided into different nations with different customs, cultures etc. Its what makes the world an interesting place. The world would be quite boring if all the countries in it were exactly the same.

    By your way of thinking nobody would bother to support the Ireland soccer team for example. If Italy or Germany beat us thats just great because we're all the same anyway. "

    I'm not disagreeing with you at all. If people were aware of the flimsiness of the base of racism, it would help a lot,but I'm not claiming culture is irrelevant;quite the contrary. Trying to push people into boxes that they "should" be in is a recipe for trouble and peoples religion ,historical heritage and language are usually just as important to them as their racial or ethnic heritage.


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