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Despite wanting to go "back to the way things were", you are viewing that past through a distorted modern lens. Prior to the 20th century someone who was English would see themselves as being from a completely different civilization as a German. Eastern immigrants such as from Poland or Ukraine were treated as non-white invaders. Even the way you just lump the English and Irish together is a very big no-no to this day.
Europeans contain (
Northwest Europeans contain (
Germans,
Irish,
English,
...,
),
Eastern Europeans contain (
Russian,
Polish,
Ukrainian,
...,
),
Southern Europeans contain (
Italians,
Spanish,
...,
)
)
For example, your decision to categorise "Latino" as non-European is very arbitrary. There are lots of Latinos who speak European languages and participate in European cultural traditions.
Wait until you find towns in Andalusia with far more blondes than in London, because, oh wait, something-someting Reconquista happened from North to South.
To a mid-Northern Spaniard, Flamenco it's as alien to us as it would be for a Central European, because our folk traditions aren't Morisco/Gypsy at all.
For instance, Northern Spain has Celtic culture with bagpipes, rain, green fields, cider and music pretty much non-Flamenco. Fast, uplifting and uprooted on happiness instead of sorrow and despair.
Irish were seen as a subrace until WW1. Any 19th century racist would absolutely disagree with your message. In the same way, putting Ukrainian with turkomongol and genoese roots in the same bucket as Russians, or as Poles would be clearly decried by 19th century racists. As lumping Italians and Spaniards, why not, do you lump Greeks in that bucket too? Because 19th century racists wouldn't.
Also english are way, way closer to Spaniards culturally and genetically than eastern Europeans. And Irish and Scotts are way closer culturally to Spaniards than Germans. I never saw any German delegation in an interceltic festival, whereas Galicia is a recurrent participant.
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"Irish were seen as a subrace until WW1."
What you said:
"This whole Irish were not considered white thing is a myth people like to throw around, but it's just not true."
I totally agree with you, but I've never said that. Don't strawman me?
It was a White "homeland" mathematically speaking until a political/economic decision was made to make it otherwise. Why is that controversial to point out? Motives abound?
Perhaps you could explain more in detail. I mean, Hispanics aren't pushing out Christianity and pub food... And they like Americans plenty.
Side note: If your economy would otherwise be shrinking because of a shrinking population/labor pool, immigration is good.
Wait until you find mid-Northern Spaniards from the Cantabric mountain ranges where pretty much Celtic/Germanic descendants similar to Irishmen and Mid-North Frenchmen.
When you hit Asturias, León, Cantabria, Burgos... everything you pretended to know about Spaniards/Hispanics goes out of the window.