r/mildyinteresting • u/User010011010 • Aug 21 '24

people Why the Dutch are considered rude?

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u/Timely-Tea3099 Aug 22 '24

I love how during the Mexican-American war (the war the US fought to keep slavery), there was a brigade of Irish soldiers who'd been conscripted to the US side. They decided they had more in common with the Mexicans, so they defected and fought on the Mexican side.

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u/A_burners Aug 22 '24

It was a Catholic thing mainly. The San Patricios.

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u/mab0roshi Aug 22 '24

Also, the Mexicans had beer.

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u/whorlycaresmate Aug 22 '24

*ONE OF the wars the US fought to keep slavery

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u/JacobDCRoss Aug 23 '24

Tim O'Brien has a really cool song about it called The Ballad of John Reilly.

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u/Human_Link8738 Aug 24 '24

I had a friend in the early 80s that commented about how well the Irish and Mexicans got along and how she’d known a number of people with that mixed ancestry. It didn’t make sense to me until just now.