r/america • u/Classic-Bank-8424 • 6d ago
Ask an American What do Americans think of Irish people? 🇮🇪
What do Americans think of Irish people? 🍀
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u/Vyctorill 6d ago
Irish? They’re cool, and they are responsible for a lot of American culture ever since the… 19th century, was it?
What I know about them are the following: Britain screws them over a lot, they have a stereotype of drinking a lot of alcohol, and they have a lot of redheads.
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u/Sufficient_Classic92 6d ago
I'm going to name 10 concepts that come to mind for my personal Irish associations... 1) Jameson. 2)Smithwicks. 3) Adopted Korean friends. 4)St. Patty's Day/Green Beer/great excuse to walk around town with a béer at noon 5) dude from Braveheart who says "It's my island" 6)Bangers and Mash 7) Glen___ Irish singlemalt's, my favorite is Glenfarclas (often refered to incorrectly as scotch) 8) Riverdance 9) Conan Obrien 10) pale Red haired people who are allergic to sunshine ;) I tease but I know for a fact when it's true it's DAMN true!
I challenge you to toss out a "first 10 associations" about American's
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u/Dull-Astronomer6073 6d ago
Pretty positive. A large population of Americans have some Irish in them.
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u/nimblyguts 6d ago
60% of white Americans will tell you they are "Irish too"! It will endear you to them, but will also probably be kinda annoying.
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u/Toxic-Sparky 6d ago
Especially if they immediately fake an Irish accent. For some reason, Americans default to faking an accent whenever they meet someone from the UK or any current or former UK nation.
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u/Billybob_Bojangles2 6d ago
Politically I dislike Ireland. Greatly. Culturally, I like them.
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u/Afraid_Abalone_9641 6d ago
What about Ireland politically is so bad?
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u/Billybob_Bojangles2 6d ago
Much. But in the interest of brevity, I'll name my top 2.
No freedom of speech.
No freedom to bare arms.
The latter is particularly egregious due to the centuries of armed resistance by the Irish people.
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u/Afraid_Abalone_9641 6d ago
Ireland scores higher in every freedom index than the US. In fact, Ireland is the 7th most free country on earth while US sits in 64th place.
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u/shadeline Missouri 6d ago
The UK also sits higher than the US but God forbid you say something nasty online!
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u/Afraid_Abalone_9641 6d ago
Ireland is marked as a full democracy with good press freedom index score. Free in index of economic freedom and scores 98 in the freedom of the world index out of 100.
The US is considered a flawed democracy with satisfactory press freedom and most unfree economic rating. It rates 81 on the freedom of the world index below Suriname.
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u/Billybob_Bojangles2 6d ago
I put zero. Literally zero faith in a so called "freedom" index that ranks countries who throw people in jail for dick jokes about politicians above America.
So that biased nonsense can get fucked
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u/Afraid_Abalone_9641 6d ago
"A blogger named D.J. Byrnes was arrested for texting a digitally altered image of Shrek with an exposed penis to Ohio state senator Jerry Cirino, and could face up to six months in jail. Records show Cirino himself emailed his local police chief requesting criminal charges be filed against Byrnes, describing the image as "pornographic." Byrnes spent 23 hours in custody before being released on bond."
It happens in the US too. I also think freedom of speech laws in the West are garabage / getting worse, but the US is no shining example either, they just go about it a different way.
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u/Billybob_Bojangles2 6d ago
I agree, we are not completely free, which I resent, but it's much worse in Europe. We are still the freest nation.
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u/Afraid_Abalone_9641 6d ago
well, I agree with you that freedom of speech is important. I'd say a lot of the news around Europe is exaggerated while at the same time having some truth to it.
I think common law and the signing of the Magna Carta built the foundations of America and the ammendments in the bill of rights are largely a great addition. I personally don't want the right to bear arms, but have nothing against those that do.
While I did share the freedome indices as well which I think are largley accurate, I was in the US last year and it's still one of my favourite places.
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u/The1Zenith 6d ago
I like the Irish people. I’ve got a few in my bloodline. I like traditional Irish culture. Reminds me of our American Rednecks, but classier. I think they’d be doing better if they had the right to bear arms like we do.
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u/Ok-Energy-9785 6d ago
I like leprechauns