Today's protagonist is not Biden. It was the blood in his body, the Irish.
What kind of presence are the Irish in the United States? Since the founding of the United States in 1776, 14 of the 45 presidents have been Americans of Irish descent. Far from it, let's talk about a few names of the 20th century — Theodore Roosevelt who laid the Foundation for the United States as a colony, Woodrow Wilson who was seen in middle school history textbooks, John Kennedy, who was said to have a personable relationship with Monroe, Richard Nixon who established diplomatic relations with China, Ronald Reagan who ended the Cold War, Bush Sr., an old friend of the Chinese, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and George W. Bush, who sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The Irish not only make up a high percentage of the President of the United States, they also make up a high proportion of the total population of the United States. 10% of the U.S. population claims Irish ancestry, meaning there are 31 million people of Irish descent in the United States, more than ireland's population of about 5 million.
It can be said that without the Irish, Americans would have less than half of the genes in their bodies that can be beaten. Because the Irish originated from the three barbarian tribes of Europe, the Celts.
At that time, Europe was still during the Roman Empire, their main area of activity was in the Mediterranean and its surroundings, for the northern ethnic groups of the Roman Empire were collectively called barbarians, somewhat similar to what our ancient Chinese Central Plains people called the Xiongnu, Turkic, Qiang as barbarians.
At that time, in the ranks collectively called barbarians by the Roman Empire, there were three major ethnic groups that were extremely capable of fighting, which made the Roman Empire at that time somewhat afraid. One is Germanic, the ancestor of present-day Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, england, etc.; the other is Slavic, that is, the ancestor of now Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, etc.; and the Celts are the ancestors of the present Irish.
Although they have not established many powerful countries in the world with them as the main body, however, they are like the "little strong", they have been fighting for the survival of the nation and the individual, and they have never stopped.
Every time an Olympic delegation enters, the announcer is heard pronouncing the full name of the United Kingdom as "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", and since there is Northern Ireland, why doesn't Southern Ireland have it? Because southern Ireland has been unconvinced since it was invaded by the British in the 12th century, it has been fighting repeatedly for more than 800 years, and finally in 1921, the British gave the status of an Irish autonomous state, effectively ending hundreds of years of British rule over Ireland. In 1949, Ireland declared itself a republic, withdrew from the Commonwealth, and achieved complete independence through resistance. The United Kingdom has since been renamed the United Kingdom of Northern Ireland.
The spirit of resistance in the bones of the Irish is not only incurable to the British, but also in the United States itself is in awe of the Irish.
The Irish left England for the United States on the one hand because of the unsuccessful rebellion against Britain at that time, so they wanted to find a "feng shui treasure land" to do it themselves, on the other hand, because the Irish believe in Catholicism, and in britain, they have great differences and differences with the dominant Anglican religion, these Irish people are not high in ethnic status, coupled with religious factors, they are excluded everywhere, so they leave the United States, but it has become a rare opportunity for them to get a better environment.
The Irish who came to the United States soon formed a powerful organization, so much so that they gradually evolved into gangsters. There is a saying that "violence, like cherry sauce pie, is a specialty of the United States." Another phrase is "The American gangsters are half Italian and the other half Irish." ”
When the rebellious Irish came to the new land of the United States, violence became their subconscious choice.
Just like Shanghai Beach in the early 20th century, the major cities in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries were in a place of rapid expansion and lack of corresponding management mechanisms, and the underground society came into being. And the people who could control this underground society were the best candidates for Irish descent in the United States at that time. Because the Irish, who do not have much technical level, in order to find a way out in this new world, can only do some hard work, what to build railways, long-distance transportation, chisel rivers, etc., as long as it is the hardest work, you can see the Irish. And these people are the main body of the underground society.
Where there are groups, there are organizations, and special groups produce special organizations. Some gangs of Irish descent were born from this underground society. Some time ago, the more famous Oscar movie "The Irishman" is about the gangster history of this group.
But if the Irish's violent genes are only to fight and kill, it certainly can't produce so many U.S. presidents. The other side of Irish violence is hard work, cultivated for generations.
The war gave the Irish their first status in the United States by paying for the country. During the American Civil War, the federal government was in desperate need of soldiers, and a large number of Irish people joined the federal government's army, winning respect with blood and fire.
Active participation in nation-building is the second way for irish to gain their status in the United States. After the American Civil War, the federal government launched many large-scale construction projects in order to restart the US economy. The Irish took advantage of this boom to build cities in the eastern part of the United States, and the Irish can be seen in the construction industry, manufacturing industry and service industry. They traded their labor in the United States for more equal treatment and a more comfortable life. Boston in the east of the United States is now a microcosm of the Irish's contribution to The construction of the United States. Boston is also known as the "City of the Irish". In addition, the Boston team of the Us NBA is called the Celtics, which can also know the status of the Irish in Boston.
The Irish can be seen not only in the east, but also in the west of the United States. The Irish also have large populations in California and San Francisco.
After several generations of hard work, the Irish have finally become a major ethnic group in the United States, they are no longer inferior, they are the builders and contributors of the United States.
After the primitive accumulation of primitive accumulation in the early generations of the Irish community, from the late 19th and 20th centuries onwards, the Irish began to seek greater political power in the United States.
In 1886, the nation's first coal miners' organization, the American Miners' Association, was officially formed, and the Irish were elite backbones. In 1905, the World Union of Industrial Workers was formed, with Irish-American female propagandists as the main leaders. Not only that, but in the late 19th century, the Irish were almost all over the police and fire departments of the United States.
Step by step, after each generation fulfilled the mission of each generation, the Irish went to the political realm from then on. So there were Irish-American presidents throughout the 20th century to the present.
In 2016, Biden said, "As an Irishman, I am not afraid of contradictions, and this has shaped my whole life." This is perhaps a footnote to why the Irish are so influential in the United States.
Generation after generation, generation after generation, the earth lives on forever. Times are changing, rules are changing, but the Irish have not changed, they are still loyal, tenacious, and down-to-earth in completing the mission of a generation.