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The Neglected Poor in London
by Vicky Salim
During the 19th century, the lower social class in England was often distinguised as Irish immigrants who received inadequate education, potitical power, and housing conditions from British power. The Potato Famine in Ireland was the main cause of the Irish fleeing to England. Englad, for the Irish was known as "The nearest place that wasn't Ireland." Like many times in history, London's authoritive treatment towards the Irish emanated from the ned to scapegoat a specefic group of people in order to improve a country's own economic growth. The English government successfully scapegoat the Irish as they pronounced them "inferior" and made it so that the Irish people specifically, were unable to rise above their poor living conditions.
Like many people who have found it possible to migrate into another country, the Irish left Ireland to find better working surroundings after Ireland's potato famine of 1822. The British were generally prejudice against Irish immigrants and used stereotypes of effectively justify the inferiority of the Irish people. The continual existence of cheap labor and poor paid laborers is only part of what kept the Irish in poverty. The Irish were placed to live in the worst districts and almost always located to live outside the views of the rich and elite. This tactic was effective in keeping the Irish "in place" because it avoided the poor as well as denied their need for better conditions. The extreme poverty rendered by Brtish government against the working class, especially the Irish people was a result of many causes. These causes include, industrialization and poverty, prejudice and stereotypes, immigration from Ireland, lack of political power, and their enviromental conditions in London.
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| Potato Famine of 1822 |
Stereotypes against the Irish in London
Enviroment & Conditions in London
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