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3 Jul 2018 Conversations with Tyler Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust
“I like that because it breaks the stereotype, and it’s a good starting point of the biography of this trip, which is trying to dismantle stereotypes.”
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- 3 Jul 2018
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…Given that most people in the two Irelands are no longer formally religious, if you had to describe, in your vision, the core cultural difference between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, what would that be? I couldn’t even tell you the difference between [laughs] East Belfast and West Belfast. West Belfast is typically a stronghold of the Republican Catholic, let’s say, the Irish who are trapped there but would like to join the Republic of Ireland, while North and East Belfast are Unionist attached to Great Britain. It’s interesting because, actually, the family that gave me the chance to go there — they were British, they were pro-Irish. I like that because it breaks the stereotype, and it’s a good starting point of the biography of this trip, which is trying to dismantle stereotypes. They were not on the side they were supposed to be. I met great people from both sides, but most of my friends tended to be from West Belfast. From a hitchhiking point of view, how do the two Irelands differ, if at all?…
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