Relations To Immigrants Flashcards
Why were there bad relations due to religion
80% of Irish were catholics
Allegiance to Rome not Scot
Scots joined the orange order in protest to all the Irish catholics
Why were there poor relations to due concerns for employment
- Irish and Lithuanians worked in coal too
- 1931 during the depression the Church of Scotland argued that only Scots should get the jobs
Why were there bad relations due to immigrants being believed to be causing a social decline
- Irish were poor and sickly making Scotland look poorer
- Italians mixed the sexes in their cafes and opened them on sundays
- Lithuanians has big dunken events
- Irish lowered living standers by living in suck poverty with loads of children and animals
Why were there bad relations due to it being thought that they brought illness
- plague, typhus, cholera blamed on them
- Keir hardie sayed they brought the plague (Lithuanians)
Why were there bad relations due to Scots feeling they didn’t assimilate
-own news papers in Yiddish
‘Jewish echo’
-little Poland new name for bellshill in Glasgow
-Italians worked long hours
-socialised together for example the Irish catholics socialised and worshipped together
Why were there GOOD relations due to the benifits immigrants brought
- we liked the fish and chips/ ice cream and cafes
- temperance society likes the cafes because they were an alternative to drink
- Jews provided seceries such as tailoring and furnishing
- businesses liked them
Why were there GOOD relations due to religion
Some Irish shares a religion with us
