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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ReshiIRE" data-source="post: 8473826" data-attributes="member: 7031231">You mean poorly... but nowhere near as bad as say, in particular, black people in the United States were treated? Or how Japanese people were treated during the Second World War?Like, being Irish wasn't easy in the US for a while, but Irish Americans became part of the mainstream and became an essential power group not too many generations after they first arrived. Hell, they did form a major funding part of the War of Independence in Ireland. And note that you probably mean Catholic Irish - Protestant Irish peopel from Ulster didn't face quite the same issues.As well as that, Irish people were so, so so much better treated by Americans much more quickly than Irish people were treated in the UK - in particular during the Troubles. Now, I have never encountered any bigotry or shite from people in the UK in real life, but I have encountered some strange as heck attitudes from UK people even today online - and I'm fairly sure I was judged in a strange way by someone I knew quite well from there. Hell, I've had people from the UK not even remember what part of the island I'm on!Let me put it this way. An Irish American Catholic (who had quite close links to Ireland in many ways) became President nearly a good fifty years before a black man and Africian American became President. Which is just... really quite nutty.Which is all to say; while how Irish people in America were treated as bad... it's just not comparable, at all, to what black and Africian Americans experience. And continue to experience.[Won't go into it here and somewhat irrelevant but this is partly why I think Bioshock Infinite is a shite game]</blockquote>

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