Below
is a selection of open-ended responses that relate to the question:
'How favourable or
unfavourable do you feel about people from the Protestant community?'
NB: Square brackets indicate where the text was edited for grammatical
reasons.
Ever since our freedom was taken from
us 800 years ago, the true Irish Catholic people of Northern Ireland
have had hatred for the Protestant workers […]
I believe that both communities have
suffered too much through sectarianism and until both governments
* with the victims and the truth is told there will be unrest. I also
believe that the unionist community feel uneasy with the Republicans
and the prospect of a United Ireland [...]
I hate sectarianism. I have no problem
with the Catholic community who aren't sectarian. I prefer Irish people
to British people. But I hate sectarianism with a vengeance and although
I am not in the middle of it, I want to leave the country.
I myself am a Catholic and I feel this
hatred between the two communities is pointless and stupid. My family
have been affected a lot by these conflicts between the two sides.
My [relative 1] was in prison for 8 years, my mum, [relative 2] and
I had to move down south to the Free State to live in [name of town]
and as a result I was brought up to feel hatred against Protestants
as I feel they were the ones who put my [relative 1] in jail. But
now as I matured, I do not care for religions' origins. I love my
religion but do not care what religion anyone else is.
I only have problems with paramilitaries
in the Protestant community. I think the rest can be ok. Most of the
time.
It's sad seeing children involved, like
at band parades or whatever, because the poisoning had already begun
at an early age. Uniforms are terrible. I had personal experience
of people (Protestants) shouting at me because of my uniform.
I've answered quite indifferently in
these questions, because I feel that judging somebody has nothing
to do with race or religion but quality of personality. You get racists
in all races so I don't want to give generalisations.
Loyalists need to realise they will
never be able to prevent re-unification of Ireland and British withdrawal.
When the majority of the pop[ulation] wish this to happen - it will
[…].
Northern Ireland is full of people who
can't accept other peoples race of religion.
People still prefer to know which religion
someone is so that they will know how to act around that person. Our
society needs to be a lot more used to multi-religious and multi-ethnic
factors.
Protestants can have marches, flags,
bands etc. Catholics cannot. If no one could, then it would be a better
place. Police are very favourable to Protestants; if they were not
N. Ireland would be very peaceful.
Protestants are hateful. They are jealous
of us - Catholics. All dirty scumbags should live as far away as possible
and be shot dead!
Religious and racial intolerance is
only related to a minority in N. Ireland, but we all get tarred by
the same brush.
The reason I have put so many 'I don't
know' is because people in N. Ireland rarely 'flaunt' which religion
they belong to.
