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Potatoes were not “native” vegetable to Ireland but probably came from South America-Peru’s Andes Mountains originally. In the early fifteen hundreds, conquerors from Spain found the Incas growing the plant, which was called “patata” by the Spaniards. The Spanish took them back to Europe which eventually got their way into England where the name “patata” changed to potato.
Among the major and obvious implications of the famine was emigration. Even though the famine alone most likely caused a million deaths, the resulting emigration brought about a drop in the population by a further three million. Almost a million of the three million are estimated to have moved during the immediate period of the famine, with the depression that came after continuing the decline until the second period of the twentieth century. Many the migrants mostly migrated to North America, while some in Britain and in Australia.
Among the legacy that the “Irish Potato Famine” left was a lasting and deep feeling of distrust and bitterness towards the British. Besides being a natural disaster, many Irish people believed that the “famine” was “a direct outgrowth of British colonial policies” (Jensen 405). In support of this controversy, the Irish noted that through the worst years of the famine, many estates belonging to the “Anglo-Irish” continued exporting livestock and grain to England. Even though now “accepted”, the Irish group of people was once widely vilified.

This discrimination and victimization were mainly on the grounds of race and religion. Every “immigrant group” , for instance, the Italians and Germans, have faced nativism. Particularly, it can be seen how attitude categories towards the Irish are able of and have been transferred to other groups over time.
Works Cited
Jensen, R. “”No Irish Need Apply”: A Myth Of Victimization.” Journal of Social History 36.2 (2002): 405-429. Web. 17 Apr. 2018.