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[quote=Anonymous]The Irish are different from most Catholics because they share the Anglo Saxon history with WASP’s that have historically been the power group in this country.  On one hand, the Irish despise the WASP’s who scorned them as a lesser group when they arrive en masse in this country.  On the other hand, the Irish wanted to be included among the WASP elite – and had a plausible path to do so since they are similar in many respects.  To be accepted among the WASP’s the Kennedy type Irish Catholics ever disassociated form the church or adopted a “lite” version of Catholicism that is hard to distinguish from the teachings of the Church of England (the Andrew Greely version of Catholicism that you’ll see in many Irish dominated parishes). The Irish Catholic/WASP interaction has been complex and manifests in two distinct ways: the insular Irish Catholics (one of whom is trolling this thread) and the WASP wannabe Catholics. The trend in recent years has been for Irish Catholics to leave the church in greater numbers than any other ethnicity and that trend should continue.

For persons with continental European heritage, the Anglo Saxons are not particularly impressive and it’s very unlikely that you’ll find an Italian Catholic, a French Catholic or a Central European Catholic that views the English as something to aspire to and the Irish Catholic obsession with the Protestants is fairly humorous.   As a non-Irish Catholic with European background, I see both Georgetown Prep and Gonzaga as schools geared more toward indoctrinating another generation of insular Irish Americans and not so much as schools geared toward traditional Catholic education.  That said, it seems that these two schools are not unique among American “Catholic” schools.  
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