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Published: 02/11/11

Bloomberg Apologizes for Crack About 'Inebriated' Irish

By  Mara Gay - AOL News
Bloomberg Apologizes for Crack About 'Inebriated' Irish

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has apologized for remarks he made to an Irish-American group stereotyping drunken celebrations on St. Patrick's Day. The mayor, addressing the American Irish Historical Society on Wednesday, quipped that he lives nearby the society offices and is used to seeing inebriated people spilling out of the Manhattan building on St. Patrick's Day. "Normally when I walk by this building there are a bunch of people that are totally inebriated hanging out the window waving," Bloomberg said. "I know, that's a stereotype of the Irish," he went on, as members of the ...

Published: 01/5/10

Yanks, Brits and Politeness: Is America Really the Best?

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
Yanks, Brits and Politeness: Is America Really the Best?

Well, Christine, thanks so much for your piece about American politeness, which I loved, as well as your link to Geoffrey Dyer's wonderful article in The New York Times -- "My American Friends" -- on which it was based. When you first mentioned that the Englishman Dyer finds Americans to be more polite than his British brethren, I very nearly spit out my (English Breakfast) tea. Upon closer inspection, however, I think there's a lot of truth in his cross-cultural analysis. ...

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