No Irish Need Apply
In America, there have long been sentiments against various groups. One of the earliest examples of these came in the Gilded Age, and was summarised by the simple acronym NINA, or No Irish Need Apply. Representing the desire for workers who were not of Irish descent, partially for the stereotype of drunkenness, and partially for the ingrained hatred of Catholicism which has been epidemic in US history. The NINA signs represented a situation where a certain group was forced into their own community, forced to fail economically due to the lesser availability of jobs.
This is another example, although a complicated one, of how the American System goes out of its way to crush individualism where it finds it. While being Irish isn’t a choice, these certainly helped integrate the Irish, forced them to abandoned their traditions so they didn’t stand out so much in the work place. While the times of racial profiling in the workplace are long over, America has long tried to punish those who are different. This attempt at punishment helped to eliminate the distinct Irish culture in America, making it into clique and stomach-able traditions like St. Patrick’s day, which are irrelevant to the interests of the of the Irish population which America homogenised. While these people were not trying to change themselves or the world, the American culture still tried to destroy their individualism, which complicates the American hatred of rebels into a hatred of anything which is not homogeneous with or at least within the realm of the familiar.
Wealth was denied to the Irish, but that didn't hamper their political power. The Irish eventually managed to shrug off burdens and integrate into American life. But, when things like that happen now, the political effects are far greater. To look into this, see the below page.
This is another example, although a complicated one, of how the American System goes out of its way to crush individualism where it finds it. While being Irish isn’t a choice, these certainly helped integrate the Irish, forced them to abandoned their traditions so they didn’t stand out so much in the work place. While the times of racial profiling in the workplace are long over, America has long tried to punish those who are different. This attempt at punishment helped to eliminate the distinct Irish culture in America, making it into clique and stomach-able traditions like St. Patrick’s day, which are irrelevant to the interests of the of the Irish population which America homogenised. While these people were not trying to change themselves or the world, the American culture still tried to destroy their individualism, which complicates the American hatred of rebels into a hatred of anything which is not homogeneous with or at least within the realm of the familiar.
Wealth was denied to the Irish, but that didn't hamper their political power. The Irish eventually managed to shrug off burdens and integrate into American life. But, when things like that happen now, the political effects are far greater. To look into this, see the below page.