Irish in America
In the American television networks, there is now such political correctness surrounding blacks, Jews, Hispanics and Italians, that programme makers shy away from portraying any of these groups in a negative way: instead they use the Irish.
In the American television networks, there is now such political correctness surrounding blacks, Jews, Hispanics and Italians, that programme makers shy away from portraying any of these groups in a negative way: instead they use the Irish.
Almost every week in the police dramas, the bad guy is either Irish or Irish-American. In American programmes and films in general, the Irish are vilified, and Ireland demeaned.
There is never a positive image. We never see...
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