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I grew up in an all white town. We didn't segregate, there just wasn't any brown or black folk. A hierarchy still emerged.
At the top you had your "Americans", you can read that as English, German, Norwegian (lots of Norwegians) descendants, protestant.
Next you had the Catholics, your Irish and spare whomever from the first category who happened to be Catholic.
Then you had the Polish, (yours truly!). While still Catholic, we were still gross pollaks. Everyones favorite punchline.
Then it was the Slavic people, mostly Czechoslovakian, they had a reputation for being scary mofos so no one fucked with them.
At the very bottom you had the Finlanders. They were always starting co-ops and acting in a very socialist way, so no one trusted them. Fuckin Finlanders....
Fucking socialists? You’re crazy. Fuck the nice people!!! Mercadumb
Lol just can't have it! It's so stupid. Co-ops are awesome!
Although a bunch of them did go to Russia right after the revolution there only to eventually get purged by Stalin. Caused a lot of rifts in the community, to this day there's still some who are very anti anything socialist.
They then focus outward and attack literally any nation they want to as the imperial center crumbles