No more anti-irish and probably less so than the anglo-phobia that is prevalent in the Irish media.
As a Non-national working in Ireland, I would like to add my view of Ireland. I will leave Ireland soon or later for the following reasons:
1. Overpriced property
2. Poor public transport
3. Poor health system
4. Lower salary for the same job compare to US, UK and Australia etc
5. Dublin is not a safe city( Police are useless in this country, I was attacked a few times by the Irish kids at night and my rented house at D6W got stolen)
6. Irish people are not friendly to colored people. (I will feel it and pub or at shopping)
if everything is so bad, why are you living here? I don't mean that in a smart way, but you seem to be having a pretty terrible time here and not to like the place, so I'm intrigued as to why you would want to stay?
No more anti-irish and probably less so than the anglo-phobia that is prevalent in the Irish media.
Irish people think they live in the center of universal. In fact, it is not the case. I would laugh at this everytime, when some radio presenters say ‘Now we are live at Dublin, the best city in the world’ . I am sure you also hear it when you are driving.
You'll see the kind of people I'm talking about in places like: Dundrum Shopping Centre, Cafe en Seine, Ron Blacks, The Odeon, Brown Thomas, etc. But maybe this is just the way of the brave new world we live in...
I would laugh at this everytime, when some radio presenters say ‘Now we are live at Dublin, the best city in the world’ . I am sure you also hear it when you are driving.
I think it's more of an Irish inferiority complex. Just look at anyone with new money - they talk funny, send their kids to protestant schools, all of a sudden have a new interest in polo playing/shooting/fox-hunting, want to live alongside old money and drop the kids of to French lessons in their Range Rovers/Bentleys/Aston Martins/Jaguars.
The Irish new money model themselves on the British gentry (but without the culture, the class nor the taste) and it's akin to the way the black rapper feels the need to bling-bling up the latest car which was probably designed by a white man.
AFAIC, we've been swept away in a funny sort of globalised, self-centred, individualistic culture with strong British (and American) influence. You'll see the kind of people I'm talking about in places like: Dundrum Shopping Centre, Cafe en Seine, Ron Blacks, The Odeon, Brown Thomas, etc. But maybe this is just the way of the brave new world we live in...
You'll find this attitude wherever you go, anywhere in the world. It's not just an Irish thing. You go to New York and you'll find the same thing. My favourite was the NY1 news channel which had 30seconds news every hour on "the world outside New York" and they talked about what was happening across the river in Jersey.
I don't think so. As a non-national also, I found appalling the poor coverage international news get here. .
The Irish new money model themselves on the British gentry (but without the culture, the class nor the taste) and it's akin to the way the black rapper feels the need to bling-bling up the latest car which was probably designed by a white man.
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Call it a sociological case study - I'm quite serious! I have gone to observe such people in their habitat...Sorry, but why go there then, if you so despise them?
Why should I move? Obviously, there are going to be some pretty cool people in Ireland, but the generic ones, the ones who have bought into the consumerist's dream, the ones who have 5 credit cards and think that cold-looking resteraunts with aluminium and UV lighting are classy joints, the ones who spend their saturday afternoons 'in town' going around the shops - I depise such shallow, materialistic and uncultivated people. God love them though, they're probably so busy slaving away on the corportate ladder that they don't get the time, nor the inclination to think or dream about anything other than the next pair of shoes or the forthcoming boozy weekend. They annoy me, and I wish they'd go away - a good recession should be enough to restore a bit of decorum. Too often I find I'm about town ejoying a coffee and a cigarette, and some group of idiots will sit near me and start spouting rubbish about soccer or celebreties or some other generic topic.Why don't you go somewhere more cultural or saintly or scholarly, if that is what you're after?
How many people actually do this do you think? I reckon most people would prefer to see some stupid hollywood comedy, read a Dan Brown book/some other airport 'classic', walk through Jervis Street shopping centre or to go along to some silly music festival and be herded around like a cow.There are plenty of options - go see a play, walk in the country, read a great book, watch a foreign movie...
Oh go and call the spelling police would you?By the way, what are hethons and literarys? Are you just trying to prove a point about us being a nation of illiterates?
The Tele has long been the most reviled newspaper by northern nationalists (The Mail obviously runs it close). In fact several acquaintances of mine from of a unionist persuasion used to call it "The Daily Orange".Eh, how can you put the Daily Telegraph in the same sentence as the Daily Mail?
.I said I would leave soon. Maybe Jan next year to UK or Australia
and some group of idiots will sit near me and start spouting rubbish about soccer
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