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Irish being colonized, not coloni-zing.
Wouldn't it make more sense to make him British?
The Irish were (are) colonized. They were originally an out-group, but were subsumed into "whiteness" at a later point in history.
Vampirism represents this assimilation.
But now he's a colonizer (in the film)
The Irish today are some of the most respectable people against colonization. Just see their solidarity with Palestinians.
To paint them as colonizers seems wrong and offensive
I think it's more that the original Irish person is himself a victim having been assimilated into a greater vampiric colonial entity, becoming its mouthpiece and mistaking integration for liberation
tbh that aspect of the movie is clunky as it makes it too easy to substitute "collectivist ideology" for the vampiric hivemind, especially in contrast to its glorification of bootstrapping individual heroism