What are your views on Multiculturalism in Ireland? - Threadbanned User List in OP

Standard operational self hate towards "old Ireland". Quite the fashion. It's a trait we seem to have when talking about the past and those who ruled over us. The English were to blame for all our ills and the Church would come to save us. Until we got shot of them and in turn they became the blame for all our ills. Now for some it's diversity that will save us from ourselves. Until in time, it won't and we'll blame that too.

You'll also note this "cultural improvement" in play in the wider multucultural context, but only ever in one direction and of a particular focus with it. In the multuculturalist narrative and politic it's only ever White, Western, nominally "christian" cultures and peoples that seem to be in such dire need of diversity to fix their long list of apparent and usually imagined ills. And this diversity has to be as "exotic" as possible. 200,000 pale Swedes living here in Ireland wouldn't cut the diversity mustard for the multuculturalist mindset. Indeed here in Ireland the vast majority of the recent history migrant demographic are White Europeans in background, but you'd be forgiven for not realising that as the multuculturalists, the vested interest NGO's and their right wing racist opponents are all obsessed by skin colour. And none among the multucultural flag wavers would ever come close to promoting the idea that what a Black, African, non christian culture and people really need to fix all their apparent societal ills is an influx of thousands of White Westerners.

It's more likely to be that old orientalism and exoticism coming to the fore. Exotic religious beliefs are somehow better than our mundane ones. Like those who in another generation would be daily communicants, but find that old hat now and seek a similar comfort in pocket Buddhism, crystals and burning sage. The European psyche long had that going on. Even as far back as ancient Rome where polytheism was a thing so encouraged it diety fashions came and went and the more exotic the better.

Of course it also assumes that diversity of thought when introduced causes a more widespread positive effect on the society, rather than the different diversities choosing to look more inward, or heaven forbid negative effects. The latter inward looking trend is far more in evidence in multicultural European societies, certainly where it comes to religious beliefs. I don't like to bring in Islam as it too often becomes a whipping boy for all sides, but has a woman from a Muslim background more, less, or the same likelihood of wearing hijab in multicultural Europe as they might back home and how many non Muslim women take it up as an example of this diversity cross fertilisation in action?