This is a tribal, not a colonial thing. Primitive behaviour. There are definitely parallels and, I grant you, there’s bound to be a lot of crossover.
Sports are a substitute for tribal warfare and for some people, those not smart enough to not give in to base instincts, it becomes all-consuming and they feel the need to participate in the warfare.
Sounds like an excuse? Nah. Polish PM should lock the perpetrators up for a few months, and they should get a few more when they come home as well.
British attacking Spanish people for sitting at an Irish Pub in Poland is definitely a result of Britain’s colonial endeavors and remaining settler occupation of parts of Ireland.
There are Irish pubs in Britain too. The more authentic ones are run by actual Irish people. The important bit, I think, is that they’re almost identical to British pubs.
To my mind, it’s more likely that the English fans went looking for something familiar, saw the Irish pub and thought that’d be a great place to have a beer. Then they found it full of Spanish fans.
Now at that point you could argue that “Ireland is our house not yours” is a colonial mindset, and yes you could trace it all back to that, but the apes who went apeshit aren’t smart enough to join all those dots.
They were just pissed off that a rival group of fans had beat them to it.
This is a tribal, not a colonial thing. Primitive behaviour. There are definitely parallels and, I grant you, there’s bound to be a lot of crossover.
Sports are a substitute for tribal warfare and for some people, those not smart enough to not give in to base instincts, it becomes all-consuming and they feel the need to participate in the warfare.
Sounds like an excuse? Nah. Polish PM should lock the perpetrators up for a few months, and they should get a few more when they come home as well.
British attacking Spanish people for sitting at an Irish Pub in Poland is definitely a result of Britain’s colonial endeavors and remaining settler occupation of parts of Ireland.
There are Irish pubs in Britain too. The more authentic ones are run by actual Irish people. The important bit, I think, is that they’re almost identical to British pubs.
To my mind, it’s more likely that the English fans went looking for something familiar, saw the Irish pub and thought that’d be a great place to have a beer. Then they found it full of Spanish fans.
Now at that point you could argue that “Ireland is our house not yours” is a colonial mindset, and yes you could trace it all back to that, but the apes who went apeshit aren’t smart enough to join all those dots.
They were just pissed off that a rival group of fans had beat them to it.