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Indeed but scapegoating should not be encouraged.
The Shankill area here had big issues with xenophobia against Polish people. Their community group decided to explain the Polish fought hard in the RAF in ww2. Xenophobia reduced.
Instead of doing that, while acknowledging there are issues too, real or whipped up, it's just pissing pole talk. I see this in many places btw not the UK. But that doesn't make it right.
JWestland-
There's a great story about the Poles who flew with the RAF: They got news that the Germans were in the air but because of heavy fog the RAF was grounded, and the Germans would probably have turn back once they flew into it anyway. The Poles didn't care, climbed into their Spitfires or Hurricanes and went off to meet them.
They DESPISED the Germans in a way that we couldn't comprehend at the time, and with good reason.I was in Krakow a few months ago and encountered some of the friendliest people I've ever met anywhere.
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Ironic, Churchill wanted to introduce conscription in NI because these wonderful loyal Brits wouldn't volunteer in WW2. Got talked out of it because civil war with the Free State wouldn't have helped the war effort.
The_Kindness_of_Trees
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Yeah, that's the danger - that it gets so bad and people's frustrations boil over. It's like what the NF did in the 70s/80s - recruited from economically deprived areas and found a captive audience.
But this would be a problem anywhere: it's human nature to look for scapegoats.