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How xenophobic is Ireland?

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    #62
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Final offer refused; I don't drink, but thanks for pigeon-holing me with your outdated racial stereotype.

    *starts fight with nearest Limey*

    Didn't you claim to be half-American a while back? You forfeited your right to be offended at the Irish drunken stereotype the moment you denied your Irish heritage.

    Now away to Americay with ya!


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    #63
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    PillyPen wrote: »
    Damn, and Fodor's assured me that offering a beer would be the quickest way to quell a dispute with the natives. :(

    I don't know who Fodors is but I'll fight 'im.
    javaboy wrote: »
    Didn't you claim to be half-American a while back? You forfeited your right to be offended at the Irish drunken stereotype the moment you denied your Irish heritage.

    Now away to Americay with ya!

    You too, pinko.

    For the record, I'm half-American, half-Irish, ergo I get to call on both heritages, in your face, javakid!


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    #64
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    For the record, I'm half-American, half-Irish, ergo I get to call on both heritages, in your face, javakid!

    Your mother is American and your father is Irish but you were born in Ireland right?

    I never got the whole "my grandfather was born in Clare so I'm 1/8 Irish" thing. No if you were born in America, you're American. If you were born in Ireland, you're Irish. If you make up your nationality by combining your ancestors' nationalities, then we're probably all Pangaean.

    I think people just trace their ancestry back until they find a country they like and then harp on about it. :)


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    #65
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    javaboy wrote: »
    Your mother is American and your father is Irish but you were born in Ireland right?

    My mother's water broke just we were setting sail from New York and I was delivered just as we anchored in Dublin Bay. It was a bit of an international incident, I'm surprised you didn't read about it.


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    #66
    LolaLuv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    I don't know who Fodors is but I'll fight 'im.

    I think Fodor could take you. Just sayin'.

    American, eh? Where's yore ma from?


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    #67
    LolaLuv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    javaboy wrote: »
    Your mother is American and your father is Irish but you were born in Ireland right?

    I never got the whole "my grandfather was born in Clare so I'm 1/8 Irish" thing. No if you were born in America, you're American. If you were born in Ireland, you're Irish. If you make up your nationality by combining your ancestors' nationalities, then we're probably all Pangaean.

    I think people just trace their ancestry back until they find a country they like and then harp on about it. :)

    I agree it sounds silly, but if I were to find the man of my dreams in Ireland and stay there to have his babies, I'd think of my kids as American. It wouldn't matter where they were born, really. I guess I'd be surprised when they started talking like paddies, heh.


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    #68
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    PillyPen wrote: »
    I think Fodor could take you. Just sayin'.

    Pretty confident I could take them down by running some sort of smear campaign.
    PillyPen wrote: »
    American, eh? Where's yore ma from?

    Springfield, MA.
    PillyPen wrote: »
    I agree it sounds silly, but if I were to find the man of my dreams in Ireland and stay there to have his babies, I'd think of my kids as American. It wouldn't matter where they were born, really. I guess I'd be surprised when they started talking like paddies, heh.

    Slow down doll. You could at least offer to buy me a drink first.


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    #69
    Overheal
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    Earthhorse wrote: »
    My mother's water broke just we were setting sail from New York and I was delivered just as we anchored in Dublin Bay. It was a bit of an international incident, I'm surprised you didn't read about it.
    Doesn't that make Aquaman your godfather?


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    #70
    LolaLuv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Pretty confident I could take them down by running some sort of smear campaign.



    Springfield, MA.



    Slow down doll. You could at least offer to buy me a drink first.

    I love Mass! What a beautiful state. Have you ever been to Salem?

    And I did offer to buy you a drink. That's all the wooing you're gonna get out of me!


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    #71
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Overheal wrote: »
    Doesn't that make Aquaman your godfather?

    Sure kid, why not.
    PillyPen wrote: »
    I love Mass! What a beautiful state. Have you ever been to Salem?

    Never been. Would love to though. Some day, some day.
    PillyPen wrote: »
    And I did offer to buy you a drink. That's all the wooing you're gonna get out of me!

    That doesn't sound right at all.


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    #72
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    My mother's water broke just we were setting sail from New York and I was delivered just as we anchored in Dublin Bay. It was a bit of an international incident, I'm surprised you didn't read about it.

    Ha you don't have a country! You're like Tom Hanks in The Terminal. :p
    PillyPen wrote: »
    I agree it sounds silly, but if I were to find the man of my dreams in Ireland and stay there to have his babies, I'd think of my kids as American. It wouldn't matter where they were born, really. I guess I'd be surprised when they started talking like paddies, heh.

    You'd be wrong though. They would be Irish kids with an American mother and an Irish father.
    PillyPen wrote: »
    I love Mass!

    Fodor's info is obviously a bit outdated. You don't really need to love Mass to fit in here anymore. We're all heathens now.



    Also get a room you two. :D


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    #73
    LolaLuv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    javaboy wrote: »
    You'd be wrong though. They would be Irish kids with an American mother and an Irish father.

    That depends on how you look at it. If I married an American and then got a job in Saudi Arabia, and our children were born there, would they be Saudi Arabian? I wouldn't think of them as such, and I doubt they'd think of themselves as such either.
    javaboy wrote: »
    Fodor's info is obviously a bit outdated. You don't really need to love Mass to fit in here anymore. We're all heathens now.

    Edit: Haha, just got it. Apparently I'm more heathen than all of you!


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    #74
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    PillyPen wrote: »
    That depends on how you look at it. If I married an American and then got a job in Saudi Arabia, and our children were born there, would they be Saudi Arabian? I wouldn't think of them as such, and I doubt they'd think of themselves as such either.

    How did you get to be an American?


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    #75
    Holsten
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Stay away.

    This place is a total kip.


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    #76
    LolaLuv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    javaboy wrote: »
    How did you get to be an American?

    Imo, the biggest thing was that my culture was most largely defined by American culture, it's what I was raised with. Also, I was born to American parents in America.


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    #77
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    PillyPen wrote: »
    Imo, the biggest thing was that my culture was most largely defined by American culture, it's what I was raised with. Also, I was born to American parents in America.

    How did your parents get to be American?


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    #78
    Notatoxford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭Notatoxford


    PillyPen wrote: »
    As you can tell from my sig, I'm leaving the US for Dublin in about a month. I've never been and I must say some threads on boards are scaring the crap out of me. I've heard lots of good things about the Irish attitude towards foreigners, but as the time approaches I'm paying more attention to the bad and now I'm petrified that I'll spend the next year of my life with no enjoyable contact with the Irish! I'm not a big supporter of America myself, so I don't get bothered by people pointing out the flaws in American culture (as long as it's legit). I'm more afraid that people are going to hear an accent and immediately start abusing me personally for being American.

    Anyway, I'd like to know what I'm in for so I can brace myself. All feedback will be appreciated.

    You'll be grand as long as you're not black,muslim,or gay.


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    #79
    eyresquare
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭eyresquare


    Notatoxford wrote: »
    You'll be grand as long as you're not black,muslim,or gay.


    +1


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    #80
    LolaLuv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    javaboy wrote: »
    How did your parents get to be American?

    How'd you get to be so patronizing?:p


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    #81
    LolaLuv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    Holsten wrote: »
    Stay away.

    This place is a total kip.

    What's a kip? :confused:


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    #82
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    PillyPen wrote: »
    How'd you get to be so patronizing?:p

    Oh honey when you come over here, you'll have to learn to spell properly. It's patronising dollface. :D;)

    Now doesn't it feel so much better now you know the right way to spell it?


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    #83
    eyresquare
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭eyresquare


    and colour....


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    #84
    LolaLuv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    javaboy wrote: »
    Oh honey when you come over here, you'll have to learn to spell properly. It's patronising dollface. :D;)

    Now doesn't it feel so much better now you know the right way to spell it?

    You better hope we both never end up at the same beers. :mad:


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    #85
    Billy Bi Polar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Billy Bi Polar


    I for one Welcome our new PillyPen overlords.


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    #86
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    PillyPen wrote: »
    You better hope we both never end up at the same beers. :mad:

    Unlikely. I don't socialise with internet people in real life. I had a bad experience with a Mr. S. Nyper once. :(


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    #87
    Billy Bi Polar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Billy Bi Polar


    javaboy wrote: »
    Unlikely. I don't socialise with internet people in real life. I had a bad experience with a Mr. S. Nyper once. :(

    Go 4chan.


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    #88
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,993 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Ahh don't worry about it. Ireland is not a shabby place at all. One thing which many foreigners find a little strange and hard to deal with at first is the slagging. Irish people love to take the pish out of each other and anyone else they may consider a mate. They don't mean any harm by it and just give as good as you get.

    So what if your american, we're a tad racist (just look up threads on roma gypsies and nigerians) but we're not that bad. We certainly won't hate or resent you just for being american. Pretty much the only thing you'll commonly get slagged about is bush.

    The last few years with a booming economy have been good for us, the genepool has been increased and we've been opened up to other cultures. We were quite a closed society for a long time, no-one really came here.

    I don't know how you'll integrate. In many ways we are quite similar to america, indeed the english speaking world does seem to be becoming americanized but I can only imagine (having never been to the US myself.... yet) that you will see huge differences. The consumer is king hasn't quite caught on here yet.

    I have no idea how old you are and I'm not prying but irishmen have been swept up by the sea of young foreign ladies that have arrived here in recent times (just search for foreign/polish women threads in AH) and as a foreign lady they'll be just as appreciative of you.

    As B and others have mentioned don't read too much into what you read here. It is boards after all and it's easy to say anything you want without fear of reprocussion sitting in front of a computer screen. Things are often at an exaggerated level. By and large the average paddy is a happy chappy and he'll be happy to have you here.


    Oh and we absolutely love to complain, even if it's about small things. We love to complain to each other but rarely do we do it when we have had bad service from someone/somewhere etc. That may enlighten you a little and explain what you see on boards. People vent here when they really should have done it in the moment.


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    #89
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    PillyPen wrote: »
    But I am worried! Maybe it's just from all the stress from preparing for an international move, but I have lived in Japan, India, and France and have never been so concerned as I am about Ireland. I keep hearing horror stories!

    But did you read message boards of the size of boards.ie from those countries before ye went so ye could see that every country is actually the exact same... Imagine all the peeeeeople... living something something ooooooh oooooh oh oh


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    #90
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    PillyPen wrote: »
    What's a kip? :confused:
    Sleeping ;)

    you'll be fine and hey you might even pick up a north/south side dublin accent although they do vary in depth


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    #91
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,993 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    latchyco wrote: »
    Sleeping ;)

    you'll be fine and hey you might even pick up a north/south side dublin accent although they do vary in depth

    Ehh it also means sh*thole.


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