Grew up moving bacj and forth between Texas and the Maryland/Dc area. At first most would assume that northern communities are much more tolerant than a redneck state like Texas. Well, it isnt. One thing was the same though. They all liked having some other group of people to hate. Most for no other reason than they just think they are supposed to. Everyday another parent, guardian, influential person preaches the same prejudice to a new impressionable generation because we need to have a some other group to be better than. Just cause they need to make someone else a bad person so they by default, are a good person. Every race has there broken communities and there and outstanding productive members to our society. Myself, my parents were cool. Most hippies were though. Thats been my personal experience.
Mankind can hate for the simplest issues; Other side of the tracks, west end, north end, dang northerner etc. Race religion colour are not a measurement, nor an indicator of what to expect. To pre judge someone can be a habit. The two big religions are historically the best haters. Their books tell them to hate and love. It is up to the individual how religion effects you. Empathy, forgiveness, compassion, better life, better society, personal success, this is the intent of Religions.
Thanks for posting the link to the article. I learned many interesting things. For example there is a sale on men's briefs going on in Northern Ireland.
There definitely is a race problem. It particularly comes in one color. Which so happens to commit most of the violent crimes and riots in my country.
People being territorial and being against what is uncommon to their race, or place. Superiority complex.
Must just be the Northern Irish blokes that are racist..... I mean have you saw how many white irish girls are running about with mixed breed kids in belfast
This is the reason I deleted Facebook, because it's just full of race hate and is nothing but doom and gloom.
Well everyone knows the right wing protestants of NI who see themselves as British are very racist especially the poorer areas . Look at the map the Protestants areas have the highest levels of attacks and west Belfast the catholic Irish area has the lowest. This is no reflection on Ireland or Britain it's the just the right wing protestants element in NI is crazy. Maybe it comes down to lack of education as well as every study finds the Catholic Irish to be better educated than their protestant British counterparts in NI. I certainly wouldn't want to be a minority living in a Protestant British area of NI well certainly not a poor area. My friend from Essex of Indian origin was there for 6 weeks with work and said majority were fine but she had to avoid the poorer areas of protestant areas as she received abuse and felt uncomfortable. Eastern Europe is the real hotspot of racism in Europe. Watch any football match and a black player will often receive abuse
Proof to back up my claims that the vast majority of racist attacks are carried out by protestants British(loyalists) 90pc in fact http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/oct/22/race.ukcrime