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| A new Ireland would offer a home to all and be a country of equals |
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| Although I attended a mainly protestant school, my best friend is catholic but we do not let this have an input on our friendship. |
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| An effort could be made to make people of all religions welcome in my community, for example by maybe having more sports that aren't just associated with one side of the community or having more celebrations that both sides can celebrate together rather t |
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| As I go to a catholic school, Protestants are talked about very badly and although I still witness this outside of school, it's not as bad |
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| As a catholic living in a protestant area I am well acustomed to cross-community relations. However some of my friends from more catholic communities I find to be living in their own isolated bubble of reality. |
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| As long as groups of close minded people exist in each community, there will only be a certain amount of progress |
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| As the area I live in is mostly mixed (around 60/40 Protestant) it means very little to most people in the area. However the small subsections of area's who use flags or painted curbs to intimate local people is simply unacceptable. Their is a very clear |
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| Backwards compared to other countries |
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| Based on my parents experiences, relations have improved a lot however there is room for lots more |
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| Because our parents were brought up during the troubles, some raise their children (our generation) to have hate towards Protestants or Catholics. Parents that brought up this generation teaching us to not care whether someone is Protestant or Catholic ar |
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| Both catholics and protestants are almost given a negative conetation when said to members of some community but in reality there are nice catholics and nice protestants but similarly not so nice catholics and protestants. Being branded as one almost give |
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| Both protestant and catholic communities are as bad as each other. However protestant communities seem to be labelled as worse. Catholic communities also seem to be able to say anything bad about protestant communities however if protestant communities sa |
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| Brexit is causing relations between unionists and nationalists to decline |
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| Brexit is ruining the country and dividing people |
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| COMMUNITY RELATIONS CANNOT DEVELOP UNTIL POWER SHARING IS RE-ESTABLISHED IN N.I. GOVERNMENT. |
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| Certain areas in Northern Ireland are affected more than others |
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| Certain communities in certain places are quite (and too) divided. |
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| Children my age have been raised differently than I have, of course, but this means some people continue to be judgemental towards the opposite religion. |
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| Coming from Ulidia Intergrated College myself, it has enlightened my knowledge of other cultural beliefs. |
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| Communication between community relations needs to improve and people need to break down the wall of prejudice between communities and talk to one another without race, religion, politics etc. interferring with the progress of community relations. |
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| Community relations I feel are definitley improving. However, with Brexit coming into play, I believe that some problems may occur as a result of this. Regardless of Brexit and what happens, I believe that everyone regardless of age, race, gender, social |
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| Community relations have definitely gotten better overall and young people are very tolerant of diverse backgrounds yet due to old prejudices sticking around due to influences of the older generation relations cannot improve much more. |
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| Community relations in NI are bias towards catholics, in media, in representation and in education. As someone who was brought up in a unionist household, I feel I have been discriminated by members of the other community. |
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| Community relations in Northern Ireland aren't good at all. I go to an integrated school, however I still see discrimination form main white male protestants. People are quick to say that times have changed since they where kids, but as a 16 year old I do |
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| Community relations will more than likely remain the same for a long time as there are people in this society that have been indoctrinated by fiends and family from a young age to believe certain stereotypes about ceratin groups of people meaning changing |
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| Community relations will never improve unless the past is dealt with correctly. Polititians need to step up and help people to move on from the 'green' and 'orange' and the past. |
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| Community relationships in Northern Ireland are damaged due to our government not going to work, everything is at a standstill and things are becoming hostile. |
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| Concerns regarding Brexit, impacting economy, jobs and peace. |
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| Could be a lot of work put into the way be try to help build relations between mixed religions. |
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| Could be improved on |
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| Depending on areas within Northern Ireland at times relations aren't good. Everyone is brought up a certain way and that won't change as both Catholics and Protestants will also favour their own side. |
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| Depending on where you live in NI or the background of family can also contribute to the relations in this country. |
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| Depends on different areas you live in. |
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| Don’t know |
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| Due to the events of the troubles I feel there will always be bad relations between protestants and catholics |
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| Elected representatives should hang their heads in shame for their promoting some self steered opinions. |
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| Even though community relations in Northern Irland are better than what they were 40/50 years ago, it is still abysmall and should be a lot more accepting and open to all religions, ethnicities and sexual orientation. I definitley cant see myself living i |
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| Get Stormont up and running politicians are worse than kids, useless bunch of idiots |
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| Government don’t help the relations. |
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| Having gone to an integrated secondary school, I believe integrated education is one of the easiest ways in improving community relations in Northern Ireland. Schools should not be segregated as this only fuels the problems and hatred in NI! |
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| Hopefully in the future everyone with different religions and ethnic groups would treat the same and equal. |
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| I again feel that percieved hate on the other side is taught by the previous generation to their kids. As time goes on I feel this would wear off. In cities and town especially LD/D and Belfast tensions could be at their worse due to conflict aways being |
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| I am very oblivious to the goings on of communities, so I have little more to offer on the subject - |
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| I believe Brexit had overall put more strain on community relations in Northern Ireland |
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| I believe moderate's from both sides of the community get along well, its just more extremists don't get along. |
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| I believe religion shouldn’t be considered in any decision |
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| I believe some people now a days have been brought up by their families of friends to believe that they are Protestant or Catholic and you should stay away from the opposite side, this has usually been done through stories of the past or separated schools |
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| I believe that community relations or better than they were in the past but there is still a ways to go before they are at ideal standards for most people at least that I know. |
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| I believe that generally there are good community relations in Northern Ireland, however strong prejudices still exist amonst a good proportion of the population. Whilst many older people do their best to achieve peace and put the past difficulties behind |
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| I believe that more programmes need to be put in place in local communities that will appeal to all young people, n order to build rapports with each other we need to be able to go to schemes that arent run specifically by one denomination i.e. cross comm |
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| I believe that politicians and people who are older make problems between communities which never existed. |
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| I believe that since the good Friday agreement things have gotten better but it could be largely undone depending on what happens wth the border after Brexit. I think that if there was a hard border it could greatly spark tensions between Catholic and Pro |
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| I believe that the younger generation with little help from their elders have become far more tolerant and accepting of one another. |
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| I believe that with Brexit, community relations will see an increase in hostility. Different views on the subject will cause tensions that I think should be avoided through having a second referendum. I also would like to say that I believe the ore divers |
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| I can say this with hope and prosperity, that the relations between nationalists and unionists will continue to improve over the years to come. |
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| I don't have an opinion on people from different religions or ethnic backgrounds, they are still people |
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| I don't think people accept you can be neither Protestant or Catholic. I think people should stop putting people into a stereotype due to their school, where they live etc… |
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| I don’t fully understand them |
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| I don’t like how important religion is in school |
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| I don’t mind doing cross community activities but I think its stupid to do them just for the sake of doing them. I also feel that because of historic inequalities between protestants and catholics, people are trying to make it more fair but in doing so |
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| I don’t mind what people are, but that does not mean that they will not mind what I am. |
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| I don’t think it will ever eradicate from Northern Ireland. |
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| I fear that relationships between different religions will never change in Northern Ireland |
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| I feel a sense of belonging in my own community and it made me very happy when many of the neighbours got together for a barbeque and spent some time together. The backgrounds of those attending was not at all important nor mentioned. In general, from wha |
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| I feel as if people are a lot less worried about working with people from a different religion because a religion should not entirely define a person and as young people grow up, they will be mixing with people from many different religions |
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| I feel as if there is a lot of racism against minority groups (Chinese, Polish etc) which is upsetting |
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| I feel instead of asking questions about religion I should be asked questions about politics as from the two main religions these are two distinct groups; Protestant - unionists and loyalists. Catholic - nationalists and Republicans. I personally feel tha |
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| I feel like Brexit has started to stir up some conflict again regarding the hard border and the back stop, but I really hope that we can continue to progress and develop cross community relations. |
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| I feel like especially in my area funding in cross community schemes have increased peoples awareness of the need for integration and have led to a more peaceful atmosphere. |
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| I feel like people my age don't really care if you are Protestant or Catholic etc. as it doesn't really come up in conversation very much. |
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| I feel like some peope try to hide their religion or ethnic background to avoid conflict. |
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| I feel like younger people are less prejudiced towards eachother than they were in previous generations, which i feel is likely due to the gap between the troubles and now. |
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| I feel protestant and catholics are both mixing very well now and although I have friends from college from the minority ethnic groups I feel the majority of them keep to themselves and don’t mix well. E.g. if I go into one of their shops they stop talk |
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| I feel that as a society we focus on mostly religious and ethnic community relations and while this is obviously important, we put so much pressure on these topics that we no longer consider Northern Irish society as its own community - I feel instead of |
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| I feel that generally my area is quite mixed, though certain parts of the town are still regarded as Protestant or Catholic. |
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| I feel that in the last few years depsite progress in the past, relations have deteriorated between Catholics and Protestants around my age, I have witnessed quite a lot of hard feeling coming from both groups |
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| I feel that it is parent who influence there children on racist thoughts, but in time I think relationships will improve with young people of different backgrounds. |
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| I feel that the troubles still influences the young people in our society even though we weren't alive during them. It is parents/grandparents who have lived through them that encourage the hatred towards the "other side" of young people of both protest |
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| I feel that young people are easily influenced about how they view other religions. They have views about both sides of the community but they are unintentional and its due to the way we are brought up and what our family believe. |
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| I feel that, relations between both communities has gotten better through intergated schools, youth clubs, schemes etc. there is still a long way to go in achieving full peace in NI and improving relations between adults and children from different commun |
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| I feel the sectarian views that people my age have is very much influenced by parents and parents should be targeted to prevent sectarianism. |
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| I feel they will get worse is Brexit ends badly. I do feel huge progression has been made however as I get older I can see some people are fixed in their ways and this wont change if both religions don’t try |
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1 |
| I finf that the community in which I live is welcoming towards my friends even though it is mostly protestent. |
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1 |
| I get the impression that racial/prejudice/sectarian attacks are on the rise. |
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| I grew up in a very loyalist family, and I also grew up attending school on a bus with Catholic children. I've had some bad experiences with Catholics, but I've also had the same bad experiences with Protestants. The most I can say on this matter is that |
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| I hate the divide that all the flags cause. I feel very uncomfortable in areas covered with union jacks as it just encourages hostility. I want to live in a country where religion doesn't matter + I'm afraid that will never be NI |
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| I have a strong feeling that religion will always play a part in the way people see each other in Northern Ireland. While these relations have significantly improved, there will, unfortunately, always be prejudice against others. |
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1 |
| I have many friends from lots of different religions so I feel religion isn't that big of a deal these days |
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1 |
| I have never felt strongly about the problem between protestant and catholics until recent years. I in no way have any negative views towards the protestant community but I do have something against how some of them act. Being called a 'fenen bastard' whi |
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1 |
| I hope in 5 years I am wrong and they do improve. |
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1 |
| I hope in the future people in Northern Ireland will see the person rather than their religion. |
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1 |
| I hope the politicians catch themselves on and start to do something to help communities. They should be back working I have no one to go to if I need to and they don’t do anything to help community relations. |
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| I hope with the new generations emerging in Northern Ireland questions like these in this survey will not have to be ask, and we can rebuild a better, more diverse community without as much contention as witnessed in the past. "The salvation of man is thr |
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| I personally feel that some people hold on to the past and are intransigent but myself and many others feel that such things as religious,sexual,ethnic identity shouldn't cause our communities to be divided. |
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1 |
| I personally feel that tribal politics in Northern Ireland prevents community relations from improving as much as they should |
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1 |
| I play football and I would like to see better relations on and off the pitch, sometimes the parents are worse! |
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| I really think the troubles has set Northern Ireland back several years in terma of inclusivity and acceptance. Theres still a lot pf parents raising their children either highly catholic or protestant which will continue to cause conflict for years to co |
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| I sometimes feel as though I have been restricted in forming relationships with other community due to the tensions in my community. |
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1 |
| I think Brexit could make community relations worse in Northern Ireland. |
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| I think a lot of young people want relations to improve and don’t care whether someone is catholic or protestant. |
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| I think a persons religion should not define who they are. I think all religions should move on and come as one. Personally, it doesn’t matter to me if someone has a different religion. I would still be friends with that person. |
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1 |
| I think attitudes in Northern Ireland involving the irish language are dissapointing. Yes, not everyone may want to speak or learn the language, but what about those who do? There should not be a political stigma attached to the irish language it should b |
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1 |
| I think community relations are good, but the things people post on social media sometimes, or grafitti can be offensive and mean to people from different backgrounds. If its posted to target catholics/ protestants in a negative light theres no need for i |
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| I think integrated schools should be wider spread and given more funding. |
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| I think it depends on the person and how open they are to the other religion. Some people from different religions mix well, whereas others don't. |
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| I think it is really important for people to communicate and be friends with a very diverse range of people to grow awareness and appreciate everyone is important and have their own strengths! |
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| I think it is vital that as a community we leave behind the attitude of only mixing with people with the same ethnic background or religion as you. We might stop segregating ourselves and do things to help one another |
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| I think it really depends on how someone was raised as to how racist or secratarian they are. The generation of those who lived through the troubles can still be very secretarian at times so it has rubbed off onto our generations. |
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| I think most communities get on well, its only ones that still live in the past, that cause the issues and hate |
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| I think people need to disregard where people come from including their religious beliefs. Everyone is human and people should respect each other as equal for it. |
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1 |
| I think relations between Catholics and Protestants will become worse in the future because of Brexit. A hard border in the middle of our country can only have a negative effect on our relationship. |
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| I think that although there are different communities, some 100% Catholic, some 100% Protestant and some mixed, everyone as far as I have seen, is respectful. For example, the 5A bus passes through a Protestant estate and then a Catholic estate, however t |
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1 |
| I think that community relations in northern Ireland have and will continue to improve because I think people are less prejudice |
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| I think that despite all of the cross community events, people are still undoubtedly going to favour whichever way they were brought up in. This is especially true with people who had to live through the Troubles and had to experience this first hand. Als |
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| I think that for a while, relations were notably better, however due to the political changes to do with topics such as brexit, refugees, and the lack of government in Northern Ireland, relations seem to have deteriorated yet again. |
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| I think that it's ridiculous how important religious background is to some people in this country. Of course, religious identity is important to many people, but I think it should be a personal thing and not something for people to be judged on. |
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| I think that religion will always be an issue because of the past, I just hope history doesn't repeat itself and Northern Ireland can move on and focus on more important issues. |
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| I think that religious backgrounds shouldn’t be a big deal, as you should want to accept someone for who they are. |
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| I think that the political parties have made the religious divide bigger and removing them would improve over generations. Also Brexit will also increase the divide, as some believe it is back door to a united ireland and others desire being further remov |
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| I think that untill all schools are integrated, children in Northern Ireland will grow up believing that children who are from a different community to them are different and deserve less respect than others because it has been ingrained in them from a ch |
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| I think that values influencing how people treat each other are strongly influenced by parents, who in my experience tend to be quite extreme and unwilling to accept differences. Therefor stoping their children being able to develop their own opinions. Th |
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| I think that, with the way Brexit is going, relationships in Ireland/N.Ireland are going to get worse. Especially with the possible impliment of a hard boarder. |
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1 |
| I think the effect of brexit will have widespread negative impact on the community relationships between catholics, protestants and minority groups, particularly for the citizens of Northern Ireland |
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| I think the relations between communities are better now than they used to be and that has been helped by young people learning about other peoples differences and accepting people as they are, through school (learning for life and work) and other activit |
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| I think there has been an increase in discrimination towards minority groups rather than between Catholicism and Protestantism. |
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1 |
| I think there is room for improvement but there is still a long way to go |
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| I think there needs to be less people being focused on others and should just focus on their own religion, not be rude to others that don’t share it |
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| I think there will be a new 'troubles' in years to come as there is a big uproar and conflict between protestants and catholics in regards to borders, the way the countries are divided and laws to do with the two countries. |
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| I think they aren't too bad |
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| I went to an Integrated Primary School and ALL schools should be like that. |
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| I went to an islamic studies lesson as I heard it was funded by the council, divisiveness was often taught there and I worry for islamic/christian relations in my lifetime. |
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1 |
| I wish people didn’t value whether or not you are a protestant or catholic in this country so much |
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1 |
| I wish this country could move forward and without fixation on religion. |
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| I wish we could all live together in peace, without fear of attack or abuse things like flags, parades, muriels should all be banned on both sides. We need to all put the past where it belongs, "in the past" we need a new start. |
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| I would hope that they would improve |
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| I would like to say that to build relations we need to open up a conversation not just locally but globally. Recently I along with some classmates took part in a Stranmillis talk called "Those were the days" held at the University. At that talk we heard f |
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| I would like to see a time where it didn’t matter what religion you where |
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| I would like to see more done in communities to bring people from all backgrounds closer together |
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| I would like to think that community relations are improving. However, it will take time and forgveness before this can happen, and the Stormont government is hurting this by their own inability to work together for a better Northern Ireland. |
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| I would prefer religion not be something people have to consider |
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| I'm a teenager brought up as a Catholic in predominantly Protestant area, and I am Northern Irish, this is important to me. Both religions should recognise their real national identity instead of adopting from one side or the other. |
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1 |
| I've never personally witnessed any conflict between any communities in my lifetime, so I believe it's ok. |
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1 |
| If a parent is prejudiced they will show their kids to be the same which will upset community relations. |
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1 |
| If our current political stalemate continues, things may get worse |
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1 |
| If our society was normal, shared eduation wouldn’t have to exist- that’s the goal. Let refugees in so that we can dilute our sectarian culture asap. I am so sick of having to pretend to be catholic in my school, just because I wanted a better educati |
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1 |
| If the government goes back I would say to try and get all different religions and ethnic groups to work better together |
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| Ignorance |
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| In my opinion older generations are a main source for why there are still some barriers between communities. |
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1 |
| In my opinion, I feel that bringing various communities together is definitley going to change peoples mindset about other people's religion. It is also very important that kids start getting involved with other people from other backgrounds rather than j |
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1 |
| Inter-community relationships are growing strong amonst us young people, but I feel that our politicians need to do a better job and need to steer away from historical orange and green issues and help us strive for a prosperous future together. |
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| It all depends on where you live in Northern Ireland, like different council areas do more community relations than others and some councils damage community relations. |
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| It can depend on how strongly the people in communities feel about their religion, many people are very open to mixing between religions, others with stronger views can cause trouble |
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| It is essential to move forward |
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| It is fine |
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1 |
| It is not as integrated as it should be, nor reflective of wider society. People don’t really seem to have a say. |
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1 |
| It is probably as good as anywhere in the world. It's not perfect but it's fairly good. |
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1 |
| It is very split. There is areas of my town that is known as a 'protestant' or 'catholic' estate. |
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1 |
| It makes me very sad to see how divided the country is, young people today seem to be some of the only people willing to work together. |
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1 |
| It needs to be fixed |
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1 |
| It really depends on the people some have worse relations between communities, others have better relations. |
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1 |
| It seemss better now than it was |
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| It shouldn’t matter but I know there is still people against mingleing with each other. |
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| It will be worse if there's a boarder |
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| It will not get better unless our MLA's go back to work and stop acting like children. The more cross-community in our youth (prior to being prejudiced and brainwashed by religious/political agenda) The greater and more prosperous our relationships will b |
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1 |
| It wont improve unless we've a government!! And schools become mixed take down the peace walls atop keeping religions apart! Generations to come may never meet someone from another religion because of it. |
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1 |
| It would be better if catholics would stop murdering members of the security forces, and bombing towns. |
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1 |
| It's improving overall from my viewpoint, but the prejudice may never be gone for everyone. |
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1 |
| It's mainly older people that still care about divisions; many young people don’t care or pay attention to past prejudices and those that do learn it from their parents and are yet to think for themselves. |
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1 |
| It's quite sound but would feel safer if there was less conflict and more support. |
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1 |
| Its always one sided- never equal. |
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1 |
| Its not as bad as the media or politicians make out |
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1 |
| Its not the best considering there are schools which are catholic and others which areprotestant with very few integrated schools. |
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1 |
| Its shit |
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1 |
| Knuckle down on bonfires with flags from other side |
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1 |
| Many are vulgar, intolerant bigots |
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1 |
| Mixing of religions in Northern Ireland isnt as fluid as everyone seems to make it out to be. In my area there are both Catholic and Protestant high schools, despite saying they accept all religions the majority of the school will be the specific religion |
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1 |
| More integration needed- Schools have a big part to play. More opportunities needed to meet people from other religions/backgrounds- Flags are contentious |
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| Most areas are too highly sectarian which is having a mass influence still on the young generation from their older generations. DUP and Sinn Fein are pointless and are just splitting people up. Should be much more integrated. Being prejudiced on names e. |
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1 |
| Most catholic and protestants communities get along, but there is always a few idiots from both sides who start trouble. |
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1 |
| Most issues caused between communities come from local minorities (loyalist and Republican) and not from most people |
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| Most of 'Northern Ireland' wants to have a United Ireland but people from Belfast and all the Unionist areas want to leave Europe which isn't fair on us having to live with that for the rest of our lives. And there's a lot more and I said some of it previ |
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| Most people in my generation don’t care if you are protestant or catholic, however they may still feel strongly about their own, it doesn’t make them hate to the other religion, this ia as my generation didn’t experience "the troubles" and don’t c |
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| Most people who consider themselves Catholic or Protestant are only doing so because it is the family that they were born into that has brought them to think and view things in the way they do, in my opinion I believe that children should be neutral to re |
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1 |
| Mostly positive but theres always room for improvement |
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1 |
| Movement away from strict religion seems to be improving community relations |
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1 |
| My community which is strong nationalist feel that the need for any interaction from the unionist community is uneeded whicg is rather unfortunate and shows th edivide that still exists between us. |
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1 |
| My generation don't mix with people in other religions very well |
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1 |
| My sister (older) went to an integrated secondary school and got bullied because of our religion. We were never told about racial abuse by our parents/ family. It was very upsetting seeing our sister treated and talked to like that. She had to move school |
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1 |
| N/A |
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25 |
| N/a - |
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1 |
| N9 |
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1 |
| N??l |
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1 |
| NO |
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2 |
| Needs to be more education on different religions. More integration with catholics and protestants |
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1 |
| Neighbourhoods tend to exlude people from different countries- bullying, harassing people// children which were not born in the UK |
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1 |
| Nil go leoir meas ag beariarai do na gaeilgeoir anseo. There is not enough respect for the irish speakers from our community from the english speakers. For example; this document is not bi-lingual. |
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1 |
| No |
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88 |
| No - - |
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1 |
| No I do not judge via religion so. |
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1 |
| No because I don't know that much. |
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1 |
| No comment. |
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1 |
| No not really |
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1 |
| No nothing else. |
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1 |
| No thank you |
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1 |
| No thanks |
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1 |
| No! |
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1 |
| No, I honestly don’t mind and don’t judge on religion even though it affects community relations in the country. |
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1 |
| No, but I feel as though people here are too bitter and will never move on, theres always going to be conflict in NI. Especially between the protestant and catholic. |
|
1 |
| No, everything has been covered in the previous questions |
|
1 |
| No, they are changing bc people have a better understanding |
|
1 |
| No. |
|
27 |
| None |
|
1 |
| None. |
|
1 |
| Nope |
|
3 |
| Nope. |
|
1 |
| Nope. Although brexit will ruin everything. |
|
1 |
| Northern Ireland is seemingly extremely 'racist' and 'sectarianism' is no stranger. However there are so many cross community projects that do not get enough attention in the media; i.e. musical societies where personal background is not even a thing that |
|
1 |
| Northern Ireland will never change when it comes to religion which is sad everyone should just learn to live together there are more important things than religion live and let live |
|
1 |
| Northern Irish people are very kind, respectful, loving and social. |
|
1 |
| Not at this momment, no. Although the communities have been drifting apart. |
|
1 |
| Not much is gonna change without Government. What's the point of different political views without politics? |
|
1 |
| Not really |
|
1 |
| Not very good, could be better |
|
1 |
| Nothing |
|
5 |
| Nothing else to say. |
|
1 |
| Overall, i think everything is down to how Brexit plans out. I do think more events should be held in order to bring different ethnic groups together and closer as i think people decide on whether they like different ethnic groups by what and who they're |
|
1 |
| Parents need to do more to discourage prejudices in their children to improve community relations. |
|
1 |
| Pathetic and childish. Religion, particularly in NI causes conflict constantly. NI does not seem to welcome minority groups either. |
|
1 |
| People are judged primarily by their religion, ethnic background or if they are protestant or catholic. We are all human and shouldn't be divided by having different beliefs or opinions |
|
1 |
| People are not really up for change in NI when it comes to hearing other people out from what I witness. People are scared of things they don't understand or can't relate to which includes people. The government collapse due to a fight between DUP and Sin |
|
1 |
| People are too ignorant to one another and profile one another based on their beliefs, clothes or names etc. |
|
1 |
| People claim Northern Ireland is incredibly diverse however it's always just straight, white, cisgender, Christians. Never any LGBT+ respect or representation nor ethic or religious. As a gay, pagan, transgender boy I don't feel safe in Northern Ireland. |
|
1 |
| People focus on it too much just let people get on with it |
|
1 |
| People from different areas feel differently about the same subjects. |
|
1 |
| People just need to be informed of how actually similar Protestantism and Catholicism is because when we learnt about Catholicism in school, some were genuinely shocked about how similar they are. I think as the younger generation and my generation learns |
|
1 |
| People look to the past too often never to the future. |
|
1 |
| People need to be more accepting of others as a whole regardless of religion |
|
1 |
| People need to have a better understanding of different groups in society, this can be helped by local MLA's. People need to be more tolerant and put the past in the past. Other minorities need to integrate. |
|
1 |
| People stand up for one another although brexit is going to cause extreme issues with nationalist and unionists. |
|
1 |
| Personally, I don’t care what religion someone is, I think others mights but I think what matters is if you treat people with kindness and respect. |
|
1 |
| Personally, I see no difference in people with different religious beliefs. However, conflict between those from different religions and ethnic backgrounds still prevails to this day. I hope that NI will evolve soon and sectarian views will be abolished i |
|
1 |
| Political leaders are faiiling on the matter |
|
1 |
| Protestant and catholic communities sometimes make christianity look bad because of their prejudice and hatred toward each other that isnt based on religion but over a 400 year old or more land disagreement. |
|
1 |
| Relations can be dependant on upbringing so there will always be difference of opinion along with acceptance |
|
1 |
| Religious relations have improved significantly in the past 20 years. I now believe that race relations should now be improved, as NI has continued to grow its population of non-whites it is important that those from minority groups are made to feel welco |
|
1 |
| See attached page |
|
1 |
| Should come together more often |
|
1 |
| Slowly changing for the better but will take time |
|
1 |
| Sometimes you can feel the divide between protestant and catholic and sometimes you can't |
|
1 |
| Specific areas are bad in between is ok |
|
1 |
| Still living and basing opinions of the events in the past. |
|
1 |
| Still needs a lot of work battling prejudice and discrimination |
|
1 |
| Still very segregated. |
|
1 |
| Stop making a difference, we see ourselves as who we are, not. |
|
1 |
| Tension had decreased for a short period of time however with brexit both my friends and myself have felt an increase in tension especially between catholics and protestants. This tension will only either worsen or get better depending on the Brexit outco |
|
1 |
| That it is mainly the older generations that care about religion or race, the younger generation don't care because they can be talking over social media and not know anyones religious standpoint and still get along. |
|
1 |
| That too many people are stuck in the past and need to move forward with a positive outlook on cross community, as we need the next generation of children to grow up open-minded and a great sense of cross community. |
|
1 |
| The community arts funding is awful and there is not enoigh cross community work. |
|
1 |
| The community relations are good. But in certain circumstances it can improve more as some people feel like they are not included. |
|
1 |
| The community relations in Northern Ireland are very bad. |
|
1 |
| The majority of people have good cross-community relations and are neither prejudiced or discriminating it is only the minority who are, and are causing issues in Northern Ireland |
|
1 |
| The more politicians disagree and cast bias opinion the worse the situation gets. |
|
1 |
| The new generations have positively improved relations with shared community projects, however I believe that politicans set a negative example with the conflicts between them. I hope that as new generations enter politics there will be much more positive |
|
1 |
| The ongoing war between the Catholics and protestants seems very stupid to the rest of the world, but I can't help it, its ingrained into my beliefs. The way I few protestants is harmful, less superior, and more sensitive. I am all-inclusive when it comes |
|
1 |
| The only way for cross-community relations to develop in a better way is through integrated schools |
|
1 |
| The politics in NI is what is holding up better community relations |
|
1 |
| The relations between protestants and catholics has gotten a lot better over the years, however in some places, like Londonderry it is still not great and both sides are very bitter |
|
1 |
| The relations in communities really all depends on familial backgrounds and where a young person grew up along with personal choices. The secondary factors (parents living place) cannot be ignored. |
|
1 |
| The relationship between people in certain areas is fine but there are people from different groups that wouldn't walk through a street full of loyalist flags as I wouldn't but it's the same as loyalists not wanting to walk through a street full of republ |
|
1 |
| There could be more activities that promote diversity in areas which have an overall ethinic group, this would build tolerance and if anyone tried to stop/ruin the event then they could deal with the consequences e.g jail time if they cause a riot. The ac |
|
1 |
| There is a very clear divide between protestant and catholics in my area. I never come into contact with a lot of protestants as im more comfortable with my own or other religiously orientated people who arent protestants. |
|
1 |
| There is always gonna be trouble makers between religions. That’s why I'd personally feel more comfortable in a catholic community given that I identify my nationality as Irish. |
|
1 |
| There is little respect for the LGBT community. Irish language speakers. Not very accepting. Need to b aware that the use of the term Northern Ireland is contentious and I noticed the term used throughout. |
|
1 |
| There is no need for kerbs painted red, white and blue or union jacks everywhere, it is unessesary and provocative. |
|
1 |
| There is still too much hostillity between catholics and protestants in NI. We are all people. A small number of bigots off-put others from wanting to mix with each other. I had a negative experience with hostility from a protestant and unfortunatley this |
|
1 |
| There is stilla small amount of projudice amongst catholics and protestants. However, it is largely between older generations, most of which were raised in the troubl era. For the most part, people with prejudice beliefs tend to pass it on to their childr |
|
1 |
| There isnt enough done to stop the secretarian that take place on the 11th night in July. For example, bonfires with sectarian phrases. |
|
1 |
| There may always be issues between Catholics and protestants because of the way children are brought up believing that your religion is the correct one. |
|
1 |
| There needs to be more cross community events in rural areas |
|
1 |
| There should be more encouragement from the government/local councils to have strong community relations within Northern Ireland because by forging strong relationships in the community, the harder it will be for disputes to arise. |
|
1 |
| There will always be conflict between protestants and catholics as everyone is stuck in the past, singing songs about things that happened hundreds of years ago. |
|
1 |
| There's nothing else I would like to say. |
|
1 |
| Theres a lot to do in some communities. |
|
1 |
| Theres definate division but it's no where near as bad as it used to be. |
|
1 |
| They are considerably better than they were many years ago, but there is still a long way to go until all these barriers are completely broken down. |
|
1 |
| They are getting better but there is still a divide across the country although this may not be as obvious as in previous years. |
|
1 |
| They are great except some people can be very proud about their religion and sometimes they can get out of hand e.g. attack other people about their religion as it is 'not right' for them to be in their space. |
|
1 |
| They are improving and will likely continue to improve; but will religion will always influence how others perceive each other. |
|
1 |
| They are still very segregated due to their upbringing |
|
1 |
| They are worsening. (between catholic and protestant communities) Neither community respects the other, especially young people. Neither respects each other because the political situation on each side are so different/want different things. |
|
1 |
| They can sometimes effect peoples social lifes. The communities are so diverse sometimes that young children have prejudice views from very early on that its hard to change. |
|
1 |
| They have come a long way but could be improved more cross community events especially with children I post primary schooll. |
|
1 |
| They have improved somewhat in the past few years however there is still a lot of stigma between of some the communities |
|
1 |
| They never seem to get along with each other and always have something to say about them no matter what it is |
|
1 |
| They seem to be slowly improving and there is greater respect than I have ever seen |
|
1 |
| They should tey and get more local young teens and kids involved in community relations. |
|
1 |
| They will never improve until there is a United Ireland. There should be more done to improve relations. |
|
1 |
| They will only continue to get worse with Arlene Foster and the DUP in power |
|
1 |
| They will ultimatley get better, when there is more shared housing and education. |
|
1 |
| They've getting better but still a lot can be done to improve them more, children need to learn to not stereotype people from different religions and be brought up to like and respect them. |
|
1 |
| This might be odd but I personally believe all schools should be intergrated as it would speed up I believe the division which has existed, still exist and will likely exist for the majority of my lifetime within Northern Ireland. |
|
1 |
| To have more respect for other members of the public like litter and smiling at someone when you are walking on a street etc… |
|
1 |
| Views of different communities are hidden by most people |
|
1 |
| We cant just forget the past and move on we need to be educated about the troubles and what actually happened, the honest truth not some lies that have been created to make one side not seem so bad and cover what they have done. Maybe then we can understa |
|
1 |
| We need to continue to breakdown barriers, respect and get to know each other. Peace is our future. |
|
1 |
| We should all just get along |
|
1 |
| We should be making a better effort to improve them. |
|
1 |
| When we leave the EU I think that the relationships between catholics and protestants in Northen Ireland will not be as positive as they are now |
|
1 |
| While I personally don't feel predudiced towards other religions, I think that more and more people are becoming hostile to people from other backgrounds and refugees |
|
1 |
| While I think that relations have improved, there will always be people who discriminate against members of their community because of their religion, ethic background or political opinion. There is too much history behind the divisions in Northern Irelan |
|
1 |
| Whilst peace walls are erected, there is always going to be lingering decision between two communities. Always going to be physically decided |
|
1 |
| Why are catholics and protestants still fighting |
|
1 |
| Why bigots get more money than those who arent. Why our politians are getting payed to do nothing |
|
1 |
| Within my dance community, being a highland dancer, I often collaborate with Irish dancers and work well with them often finding similarities |
|
1 |
| X |
|
1 |
| Years of austerity, Brexit uncertainty and stalemate at Stormont has caused community relationships to deteriorate and encouraged racist and religious hate crimes. |
|
1 |
| Yes, More could be done to help bring people together in a community and to get along with each other |
|
1 |
| Yes, the Sinn Fein representative from my town lives across from me and a had his card burnt out a few years back and there have also been union paramilitary members live on our street, all of which have been dealt with by police, however, this just shows |
|
1 |
| Yound people should be allowed to vote and have their say as the decisions made will affect our future! |
|
1 |
| Young people are angry and feel like they are not being listened to |
|
1 |
| Youths don't fight with each other because of religion, they just fight because young men like to fight, and there are less repercussions if you fight with someone from the other culture. 99% of my friends are one religion because of the school I attended |
|
1 |
| although over the past 30 years tensions have decreased there is still multiple cases of sectarian and racial discrimination each year. regardless of this, relations are mostly positive |
|
1 |
| better with younger people. |
|
1 |
| even though the prejudice between catholic and protestant communities arent as bad as what they used to be (the troubles), there is still a tension where people arent able to let go of the past due to the things they've seen, been through (Bloody Sunday) |
|
1 |
| i believe in ethnic diversity, although in the Protestant Community (in which i was raised) I think it is disgusting that 12 July is used to celebrate the defeat and killing of catholic people and that it is still allowed to continue to this day. |
|
1 |
| i feel the relationship between protestants and Catholics are substantial at the moment, but fear when Brexit takes place it will become the same as it was 20-25 years ago. |
|
1 |
| its not the young ones with the problems it the parents who drill biased information into their kids about how bad Catholics were during the troubles and vis versa |
|
1 |
| less bombs |
|
1 |
| most of the popel in my community have a lot of respect for each other as well as showing the same amoint of respect to protestant people. Although htis is mainly the case, i have witnessed in past some drejudiced and discriminative actions towards people |
|
1 |
| my parents were each brought up Protestant and Catholic and so i feel impartial in many of these issues. but i believe we should be integrated in schools etc growing up. |
|
1 |
| n/a |
|
4 |
| n/a - |
|
1 |
| no |
|
10 |
| no. |
|
1 |
| nope |
|
3 |
| not really, there's just no point in all the arguing, if someone feels they are British, Irish, whatever, they are because they say they are |
|
1 |
| nothing |
|
1 |
| parents and grandparents already have their children 'brainwashed' into not liking the other religion specifically protestant and catholic at a very young age. schools need to teach about what actually happened in the troubles and not teach different aspe |
|
1 |
| parents should stay out of it and allow children to mix with whoever they want to. Religion doesn't matter |
|
1 |
| relations between teenages of different communities are slowly improving but its the infulence of parents/ older figures that cause divide |
|
1 |
| still some problems |
|
1 |
| sub2pewdiepie |
|
1 |
| their very homophobic |
|
1 |
| there should be more of them and I think they work very very well to bring people together |
|
1 |
| way too much prejudice |
|
1 |
| while community relations are good at the minute i fear Brexit and the Irish border could make the violence of the troubles come back. |
|
1 |
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