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Explain how.
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So you would be offended by whites blacking their faces, but not by blacks whiteing their faces?
Interesting article, albeit from a few years back.
So my question remains; Would you really miss them dancing like that?
I've no idea where you get the impression i'm offended by anyone painting their face.
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Daft question but I'll answer it.... of course I would miss that Coconutters and so would many other people. They are an East Lancashire tradition. Many other British counties have similar strange, but fun, festivities. What gives anyone from outside these areas the right to stop these things?
You mean like Protestant marches and so forth?
Not so daft...we had a similar to-do over the head of a black boy at The Green Man and Black's Head Hotel in Ashbourne. Nobody could agree on its origin, although it looked like a Turk or similar Blackamoor figures around the country but i wondered why it had been associated with The Green Man, a fertility figure from pagan Briton. You've probably heard of the Shrove Tuesday 'football' match played in the town, and everyone seems to agree it dates back to the Medieval time but again, i wondered if it had a much older origin, like The Green Man, where the boundaries of the town would be ritually walked every year; mostly, they said, to propagate the fields with good luck for a bountiful harvest but again, i also wonder if it was just to maintain an established tradition to mark out the town's territory.
The ritual you showed in Lancashire may have an older origin but the fact the 'blackamoors' in the dance are led by a 'whipping' man suggests an origin in slavery which modern sensibility finds offensive.
Trying to push a Nationalist narrative most likely.
That is because more money is pumped into Gaelic medium schools than mainstream state schools.
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I guess you have stats to back that up.
Gaelic medium schools in N.I. cost a lot more to run.
They have lower pupil to teacher ratios than state schools and require specialist teachers.
I have never understood the logic of teaching Gaelic to people who can't speak English properly.
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They have lower pupil to teacher ratios than state schools and require specialist teachers.
I have never understood the logic of teaching Gaelic to people who can't speak English properly.
Northern Ireland
Over £144m spent on Irish medium education in last five years
A CnaG spokesperson said that it costs just £116 more per year to educate children through Irish medium than the English systemHe could be all four.
If the BT is anything like the English version, and its Protestant readership suggests a Unionist bias, then it would have a political motive to downplay any motion towards learning Gaelic in schools.
Nothing wrong with learning Gaelic in schools but why should it get preferential treatment at the expense of state schools.
Also Gaelic has a history of being weaponised by Nationalists to discriminate against Protestant /Unionists.
Would Nationalists make it compulsory to learn Gaelic?
Perhaps, but Unionist opposition would certainly forestall further attempts to instill Irish as the first language of Ulster.
So is it the cost of teaching the language your concern?
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