look around today,

其实看看现在
we've got a huge debate going on about immigration

我们还在为移民问题争论不休
and I won't go into that--

这点我就不展开了
But you can see

但是显而易见
how it's clustering in parts of our political culture--

他们对我们政治文化有相当冲击
Heighten that six times over to the early 1850s.

在五十年代初时掀起了六次移民大高潮
The huge irish migrations to the United States

大量的爱尔兰人移民到美国
had just happened between the mid-1840s, especially the late-1840s,

这一事件恰逢四十年代中晚期
And about 1852 to '54.

还有1852年到1854年间
This is the moment, the historical moment,

这在历史上是个重要的时刻
Of the terrible, infamous potato famine in ireland.

当时爱尔兰严重的饥荒土豆匮乏
The nativist party was anti-catholic, anti-immigrant.

本地党反对接纳天主教徒反对移民