Thanks to you and Jason both.
I take it the Irish economic boom has extended to Northern Ireland?
--- Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, though it's not just limited to Lithuanians.
> The North is
> regularly described as the most bigoted place in
> Western Europe -
> here's a link to the most recent study on it:
>
> http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2007/2980.html
>
> It's widely acknowledged that while hate crimes take
> place in both
> Catholic (nationalist) and Protestant (unionist)
> areas, the latter are
> responsible for the huge majority of them - I've
> seen estimates of up
> to 90%. There are a few reasons for this:
>
> - unionist paramilitaries have long-standing links
> to the British far
> right (Combat 18 etc)
> - the loss of privilege for unionists that has
> accompanied the long,
> slow, unfinished transition from a sectarian police
> statelet to a more
> modern and egalitarian society has left them looking
> for scapegoats,
> and immigrants are as always an obvious target
> - the nationalist leadership is in general more
> progressive and
> tolerant than the unionist leadership. An
> interesting example of this
> was in a recent Northern Assembly motion on banning
> discrimination
> based on sexual orientation. The "Catholic" parties
> voted for the ban;
> most of the "Protestant" parties voted against it.
> - many of the new immigrants are Catholics
> (including Lithuanians, I
> believe?), giving unionist bigots an additional
> motive to attack them
>
> The South hasn't got a great record in this regard
> either, in
> fairness, although by all accounts it's definitely
> worse up there...
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