Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Why isn't the story of Ireland ever talked about by the Democrats?
This is what made Ireland open to conquest and colonization..
A strange oddity, compared to other white people in the world..
Yes they re Europeans..
And even more strangely, western Europeans.
But they are an island, in the northwest corner of Europe Far removed from
Typical European progresses over the eras..
They have been sheltered by geography..
Nothing about themselves had any competition, or a need to change.
Compared to a power like England much further south, surrounded by Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal and Belgium on the continent..
The Irish had simplistic thinking, and a homogenous culture, no industry and no geopolitical challenges.
Even as late in the Irish story as the Irish potato famine..
It is a story of sheltered thinking habits.
As the only crop that they grew was potatoes..
And the only variety of potatoes they grew was Irish lumper potatoes..
Which is what made them so vulnerable to famine.
Pure and simply..
The story of the Irish, is the same kind of a story as the story of the Native Americans, the Subsaharan Africans, the Australian aboriginees, the old Japanese and east Asians..
And the Polynesians and Maori..
The Aztecs and Myans.
All a story of unprepared backwards, simple people meeting their ends.
Be the first to answer this question.