Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo

Post by Apocryphon » Mon, May 18, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC

hellofunk wrote: post #29

s_dev wrote: post #15

I read this -- very proud of the efforts of the Irish but proud also that they didn't forget those small acts of kindness. Showing gratitude is important and I think this shows gratitude for the solidarity shown in the past. We're also aware 'Choctaw' and 'Hopi' and 'Navajo' are all different tribes and Native Americans aren't a monolithic group. It's just hard if not nigh on impossible to give back to the exact peop…

The hundreds of Native American tribes of centuries past were as different from each other as they were different from European cultures. In fact the many different regions of Europe have always had much more in common with each other than the original tribes of North America had with each other.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 18, 2020, 8:06 PM UTC

Apocryphon wrote: post #51

hellofunk wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hundreds of Native American tribes of centuries past were as different from each other as they were different from European cultures. In fact the many different regions of Europe have always had much more in common with each other than the original tribes of North America had with each other.

Well, perhaps the commonality in this case is that both the Irish and the Native American tribes involved were oppressed by Anglo cultures.

Post by hakka-nyu-su » Wed, May 20, 2020, 2:28 PM UTC

jajag wrote: post #52

discreteevent wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, most of the landlords were of British descent. The rest were under control of the crown and the crown got their taxes. The upper classes, mainly British and some Irish systematically bled the vast majority of the people. >As they would have seen it, stopping the export of food stuffs would have caused economic collapse. They knew very well that it would have caused economic collapse only for the people in power w…

> No, most of the landlords were of British descent. So landlords of British descent can't be considered Irish? Even if their families had been present in Ireland for several centuries? > To say they could do nothing because Excuse me, where did I say they couldn't do anything? I was only trying to put some context on the original comment, but it seems people are more interested in being outraged.