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Thread #15687 Message #2627385
Posted By: meself
08-May-09 - 06:52 PM
Thread Name: Racist songs .... arghhhh!
Subject: RE: Racist songs .... arghhhh!
I'm no authority on the man or his songs - but those bits seem very much like what you get in a lot of Irish songs that I've always understood as expressing pride in being Irish as opposed to being English, and/or expressing nationalistic sentiments that only make sense in the context of perceived oppression by another nation. Nationalism, of course, can always slide toward chauvinism.