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My god, all those links refer to Irish Americans. If anything, it shows that Americans hold grudges throughout generations. It's quite telling that an American conflates Irish-Americanism with being 'Irish'. The hyphen is there for a reason.
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>It's more...
I'm curious where you're from that you think doesn't have a similar history, but it still boils down to "if you don't have a racism problem it's not actually racist." I don't get that logic, you can argue it's not harmful but it's still racism.
>Why not ask the Irish themselves?
I find it strange that all the Irish you are asking are speaking English, but the Irish Times hits why this is offensive.
>Well, Brian, the record so far is a whopping 800 years: this being the period, rounded down to the nearest century, for which we claim to have been oppressed by the English.
Everything else listed is fairly standard, and you could make similar articles for any ethnicity.
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It's more "A culture that has historically had heavy racism problems should not export their overcompensating hysteria that everything touching on ethnicity/race is racism and consider its own preoccupations universally applicable".
>So what grudges do you think the Irish held leading to this stereotype?
Why not ask the Irish themselves?
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/why-irish...
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/nurturing-a-grudge-1.315764
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/50-year-itch-epic-grudge...
Or on a funny note:
https://lovin.ie/news/feature/18-petty-things-that-irish-peo...