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The lack of care that the English show to the Irish they conquered. He even makes mention of how Americans find babies a delicacy when cooked properly since we're backwater barbarians.

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Jonathan Swift satirizes the English treatment of the Irish and the desperation of the Irish people during the time of the Great Famine in Ireland in his satirical work "A Modest Proposal." He suggests that the Irish should sell their children as food to the rich in order to alleviate poverty and overpopulation.


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