Hard Working Irish

It is always good to see someone overcome a stereotype. In the case of the Irish, according to Takaki, proving that just because someone is Irish does not automatically make them a lazy person. There were children of Irish immigrants that held high positions in the workplace. The way that they would acquire these jobs would be through hard work; whether they worked their way up through the ranks or focused on school. This shows that it took only one generation for the Irish to become "assimilated" into American culture. Not something that a group of lazy people would be able to do in my opinion. Maybe one day people will be able to look at others without automatically attaching a label to each other.