Videos under the sound of famine by Sinead O' Conner. I understand it's hard on a family, but surely it can't be this deep.
by deadgirlwalking6669
Videos under the sound of famine by Sinead O' Conner. I understand it's hard on a family, but surely it can't be this deep.
by deadgirlwalking6669
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Tiktok is it? There’s your problem.
No, you’re normal. All the young people love trauma.
r/ShitAmericansSay
r/ShitAmericansSay
Americans are over dramatic by nature. Par for the course really
‘Irish American’ bet those fuckers couldn’t even pick Ireland out on a map.
We may be alcoholics and we may be mentally ill, but we are not… wait, what was the question again?
Americans, everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant, it just makes me want to set myself on fire
Alcoholism and mental illness sounds accurate though to be fair does it not?
Mother of divine god
erra ‘*nobody knows how secretly hard it is for me and why im secretly better/smarter/superior compared to everyone*’ has been a popular mode of self-fellation for a long time now, and its not just the yanks
The Irish History Podcast had some fascinating insight into this phenomenon [two years ago.](https://www.irishhistorypodcast.ie/interviews/%E2%80%98no-irish%2C-no-black%2C-no-dogs%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-the-irish-in-london)
Catherine Dunne also wrote a book dedicated to the topic of how Irish people unable to return home turned to alcohol as a ‘cure’ for their feelings of depression in their isolation from their homeland. These bad relationships with alcohol may have been passed from generation to generation.
The only reason they care is so that they can justify their disdain for actual minorities by shouting “but what about MY issues?!”. Of course they’re going to milk the dregs of what their grandparent’s grandparents were told stories about, otherwise they would have to face the reality of their own inadequacy.
“Irish-Americans” have Alcoholism and mental illness because they’re riddled with cops and cops are statistically wife beating drunks.
Any chance I can blame being fat on the famine? If so sign me up
You’re not insane.
No, wait…*checks notes…*turns out we all are.
Grand.
Generational trauma is a real thing, it lasts for generations until it’s addressed otherwise it’s passed on. Therapy being so expensive and not accessible in the US makes it harder to deal with it.
I mean epigenetics is a thing, but blaming any and all mental illness on the famine is stupid as all fuck. And Americans entering the chat with their bizarre take on “Irishness” and what the famine was only make things worse.
Always think of that line from Pulp Fiction
**Esmeralda:**
What is your name?
**Butch:**
Butch.
**Esmeralda:**
What does it mean?
**Butch:**
I’m American, honey. Our names don’t mean sh*t.
My family is french and Spanish from one side the second world war, from the other side francos dictatorship, i know its far from me but my grandparents were traumatised by their upbringing, they were violent, poor, unemployed had to immigrate to latin America
The generation later (my mom) did not have a good upbringing either, they were immigrants working their asses off,
I got luckier than them but I still feel there are things they carry that were taught to me
I never heard of the term generational trauma
But it wouldn’t surprise me that a lot of irish families had a difficult life and carried that through another generation
But yeah sounds a bit dramatic, but i also see the stress chinese and indian first generation kids have since a young age
It’s the fetishisation of victimhood. They’re desperate for a bespoke affliction so they can self-fellate over their ‘trauma’. What a load of fucking bollocks. The cheek of them ascribing their trashy familial nonsense to whatever tenuous Irish roots they have.
Also, do they not realise that they’re the descendants of the Irish who had the money to *escape* the famine?! Stupid twats.
As a pure blooded irish woman, no I personally don’t think they’re being dramatic. My dad and all his siblings bar one are complete alcoholics. I think it’s extremely accurate tbh.
American here. A bit? That’s obscenely over dramatic. Sure inheriting trauma is a thing but fucking Christ talk about attention seeking. On behalf of non lunatic Americans, I, once again, apologize for the idiots of my country. Honestly as much as I love being in Ireland, especially Limerick, you really should just ban us from the country. Even me. As a person who studied Irish history in an Irish college, that the average American associates the Irish with drinking and this kind of shit just kills me. Don’t let us back in until we can pass a basic Irish history test and swear an oath to not tell every Irish person what percentage Irish our whatever/ourself was/is.
I think generational trauma is really interesting and I’d love to see research in that area but I also can’t shake the feeling that these “Irish Americans” would dismiss the idea of generational trauma if an African American was talking about it.
As someone who knows for a fact that my family immigrated from Ireland because of the famine, I can say pretty confidently that’s not where my trauma comes from 😆 everyone experiences trauma in their lives in some form. I don’t think I truly understood generational trauma though until I met my partner. His entire family is Ukrainian. Both sets of grandparents immigrated to the U.S. during and after WWII. The loss and hardship they went through is astounding and it definitely still impacts their family. But that doesn’t mean it’s “worse” or “better” than someone else’s. We all have stuff we carry.
the answer is we dont know, as irish people from ireland. The way irish americans were treated over in america when they went was terrible, so trauma from the abuse they recieved when they went over there absolutely could have been passed down through generational trauma, but again the answer is I do not know, I have no idea what its like to be irish american, just irish!
I live in the states. We moved here nearly 10 years ago. It’s like I always say to the kids. You can bate the missus, but you can’t bate the potcheen!
My god, American here who’s family came over during the famine. No my family does not have “generational trauma” from it, the only thing I got from my Irish ancestry is alcoholism (don’t worry I sobered up) and my sparkling personality.
Honestly, I don’t think we acknowledge the generational trauma the famine caused us as a people enough, and though I’m not American, I’m certain there’s trauma on that side as well. Guilt for surviving, guilt for abandoning your family, and so on. It’s absolutely a real thing.
However, Irish-Americans are fucking weird, and even though this is the first time I’ve seen this topic even brought up, I can *guarantee* they won’t use it as an actual opportunity to learn and grow, they’ll use it as a way to shit on other people (the way they do with that “Irish slaves”) shite, and make excuses for their own shitty behaviour.
Progressive opression olympics.
As an Irish American, these cunts are over exaggerating. Yes, our ancestors had a rough time of it. So did the Poles, Italians, Russians, Indians, well, basically everyone not considered as “white.” Blaming this on cultural stereotypes is a cop out.
Might not be a popular thing to say, but many of those who made it to America during the famine were the well off. It was not a cheap endeavour. There was a recent study that found the Irish famine arrivals in America were far more likely to have a skilled trades than the average person in Ireland.
Not saying that it was all rosy and or in anyway easy, but the poorest of the poor died in the workhouses.
It’d be like me saying I’m a
Swedish, German, Scottish,Irish,Welsh Englishman
You’re not insane but she’s making a very valid point.
You cannot tell me being under an empire for 800 years and under a religious regime such as the Catholic church doesnt have some impact upon the psyche of a ppl.
Ah they need to adopt the “but sure we’re grand” mentality
As a nordie living in dublin for 15 years iv noticed there’s a completely diffrent attitude to the irish diaspora. people in the North relate to being a bit removed from irish culture, peple in the south look at them like Italians look at Italian Americans eating mac a cheese or putting pineapple on pizza.
plastic paddies get worse each day