lunar_solstice

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[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

This is good for Ireland in the long run, because it distances us from Atlanticism

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Is English culture allowed?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a fun watch. Not a horrifying horror but it fits the theme of spooky season.

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Donald Trump is philosemitic

 

The bizarre ‘bit’ on last Saturday’s Late Late Show in which US presenter Conan O’Brien was coaxed into mocking the Irish-language names of people in the audience was an illustration of this self-loathing colonial cringe. Evidently, the Anglocentric mind finds great amusement in different languages having different phonetic systems.

Late Late Show audience members denigrating the Irish language, couching this ridicule as ‘humour’.