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...sick of making excuses for my country and its appalling behavior. When I met Europeans in Paris and Pamplona, I introduced myself as an Irish citizen going to school in America. While I wasn’t ashamed of this, the truth is that aside from being born in Ireland and holding an Irish passport, I’ve spent the majority of my life in America. So why be deceptive about my background? Europeans seem to hold a lot of stereotypes about Americans; saying I’m from Dublin rather than Pittsburgh is like saying...
Being Irish seems to carry a much more positive stereotype than being American, and indeed Ireland sets a good example on the international stage. In addition to ratifying the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocol, and consistently supporting the U.N., Ireland gives a much higher percentage of its GNP as foreign aid—and recently announced a new initiative to help fight the nutrition crisis in southern Africa. When I was leaving the Bastille in Paris at 2:30 a.m., cabs were very hard to get, and I begged some rather drunk French men who were getting...
...immeasurably in the years since Brown v. Board of Education, but tension still remains. There is no better formula for peace and cooperation between different groups of people than integrated schooling from an early age; a quick glance at societies riven by internal strife provides ample evidence. In Northern Ireland, only 4 percent of students are educated in integrated Catholic-Protestant schools. In Israel, the education system for Israeli Arabs is separate-but-unequal (though to be fair, most Arabs prefer the current arrangement to integrated schooling...
Unlike Northern Ireland and Israel, America is no longer suffering from widespread violence because of the progress that has been made in equalizing and integrating education over the last 50 years. If that trend is to continue, then programs like Metco must be expanded, not stifled. As Justice William J. Brennan wrote of another recalcitrant school district 14 years after Brown, “the transition to a unitary, nonracial system of public education was and is the ultimate end to be brought about...
...inventive set-up conjurs the spirit of the real Grafton Street, a fast-moving avenue in Dublin, Ireland...