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mahina

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1. I couldn't quite put my finger on why I wouldn't want to go to England

Thu Sep 8, 2022, 10:43 PM

Sep 2022

For so long until I remembered that my grandfather absolutely loathed the English being the son of Irish immigrants. I mean loathed.

It took me a while to put it away personally but it is quite interesting how we learn hatred. I’ve seen it learned intergenerational in other ways. The US has certainly done its share of harm, not least where my grand folks landed.

You do you but it doesn’t serve me. Figured that out when I met an English person. She had nothing to do with any of it. I wish it wasn’t such a compelling emotion. But here we are.

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i hope it is safe to post this here. [View all] mopinko Sep 2022 OP

I couldn't quite put my finger on why I wouldn't want to go to England mahina Sep 2022 #1

ya know, i got none of this from family. mopinko Sep 2022 #3

I saw another DU situation similar a few hours ago Tetrachloride Sep 2022 #2

ty. mopinko Sep 2022 #4

The Irish Affairs Group Tetrachloride Sep 2022 #5

1 more thing. mopinko Sep 2022 #6

also, if you dont know this band, let it roll on yt. mopinko Sep 2022 #7

My Irish grandmother was burned out of her home blm Sep 2022 #8

rec pls mopinko Sep 2022 #9

I'm ok with the British people IbogaProject Sep 2022 #10

yeah, it's time for monarchy to die. mopinko Sep 2022 #11

Recommended. H2O Man Sep 2022 #12

she was a grand old broad, but mopinko Sep 2022 #13

Monarchies need to go the way of the Dodo. IrishAfricanAmerican Sep 2022 #14

i'm wondering this am mopinko Sep 2022 #15

Interesting blurb on Newsweek on people celebrating the death of the queen.. mitch96 Sep 2022 #16

ty. as british monarchs go, she was not the worst. mopinko Sep 2022 #17

But she had her hand in the wrong doings of the monarchy... as one commenter stated: mitch96 Sep 2022 #18

yup. she was a sweet face on an old meat grinder. mopinko Sep 2022 #19