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

Living in London you must surely understand the difference between multiculturalism, and immigration policies?

Immigration is only a contributing factor to multiculturalism which exists already in most societies, it’s not something anyone has any control over whatsoever.

Few have tried alright throughout history to impose their own ideas on other people, but their attempts have been a dismal failure for the most part. In fact, I can’t think of any regime which successfully imposed itself by force upon another culture in order to remove that culture from society.

Nazis upon the Jews for example, hardly a roaring success, was it?

I haven’t, been outside of Europe I mean. I’ve only ever been outside of Ireland once, and at the time I said I’d never do that again, still haven’t - ate a dodgy melon from a beach seller in Corfu, my wife asked me did I not see the sign saying “Do not buy fruit from beach sellers”, I informed her that clearly I did not. By Jesus I paid for it for the rest of the week - couldn’t flush paper down the toilet, and trying to sit in the tiny bath to cool my ring off was a struggle. Funniest part of the whole two weeks experience was when we were out in the club and I went to the bathroom, was coming back and I saw some Greek Lothario trying to nibble my wife’s ear as she sunk further back into a couch to get away from him. First thing occurred to me was “she sinks any further back into that couch she’s gonna suffocate herself!” ‘Twas like that Pepe Le Pew cartoon 😂

Anyways, it depends what photos from Dublin and London you’re looking at. There’s a few photos in this article about the Windrush generation in the UK. Do they look predominantly white to you?

Here’s another. Predominately white too?

Mass immigration a relatively new idea? I’ll defer to posters with greater knowledge on the subject of the movement of people in mass groups throughout human history, but suffice to say there are theories that we all originated from the land mass that is now known as the continent of Africa. A quick look at Africa today and it’s a fair point to make that you wouldn’t think it, because they’re not predominantly white!

China, Africa and Asia are among the most multicultural societies on the planet, by sheer virtue of their population sizes alone. There’s a theory behind the whole notion of “they all look the same” to an outsider, which escapes me now, but basically it’s because of your own bias, which has nothing to do with living in London, which is really why I put the question to you, because culture isn’t simply based on the colour of anyone’s skin. Plenty of distinct cultures exist within predominantly white societies too.

If they didn’t, we wouldn’t be having this conversation where some people can’t distinguish between multiculturalism and immigration.

Whether it’s been a disaster or a success is simply impossible to quantify to any real degree, same as the idea of multiculturalism or immigration and whether or not it’s a success or failure is entirely from your own subjective perspective, and I think it’s fair to observe you’re clearly biased in that regard towards your own preferences. Essentially trying to argue success or failure is pointless.

I’m aware of the history of immigration and multiculturalism in Britain, and the way a few colonising countries in Europe increased the size of their sovereign kingdoms by conquering foreign lands and attempting to impose their own culture on the people in those countries. You appear to be keen to overlook that though? The Irish missions tried to conquer foreign lands by spreading Christianity through education too, imposing much of our culture on people in those lands. Conquerors didn’t demand anything, they just took what they wanted, without any regard for the people they were taking it from. Our European ancestors were neither so innocent or benign, if you want to draw comparisons along those lines. It’s how nations became rich, by taking resources from foreign lands as they simply deemed themselves entitled to it in service of their Monarchs or God.

What I want for Ireland is the kind of bitter, resentful sorts who would begrudge anyone support, would build themselves a wee currach and piss off into the middle of the Atlantic where they couldn’t be a nuisance to anyone but themselves… for however long that would last before all the in-fighting for superiority and dominance over the rest of the group started and they all fell out with each other.

As for your ideas of me being a minority in my own country - does it ever occur to you before asking that question, what makes you think I’d want any association with you? We clearly have very different ideas of Irish culture, which I’m only too happy to share with anyone who is interested, as opposed to trying to keep it to myself in a way that it stagnates and dies out.

The amount of baseless attribution of emotions that you've to rely on to convince yourself of your righteousness is absurd. This thread is on the go years, and the vast majority of posts are calm and sensible, yet you go straight for the cheap "they are emotional and angry" attacks, which is common with posters like yourself. Anyone whose seen your posts on this thread, knows that everything you've said about us, is more relevant to yourself, as I've seen you call people all sorts of names simply because they disagree with you, yet we're the angry and emotional ones?

2 junkies have a brainwave to score e250 for the weekend. It's pathetic stuff really.

As for posting any crime by an immigrant here was one alongside the asylum scammer yesterday. A 91 year old robbed, assaulted and raped by a Romanian piece of filth. You probably didn't hear about it as it didn't make the rte news last night. You would think it'd be fairly topical in light of what happened in tullamore, women's safety etc etc. But someone in rte deemed it otherwise.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/i-no-longer-feel-safe-man-jailed-for-sexual-assault-of-woman-91-in-her-home-41276613.html

One of the worst posts ever made on this thread.

And that's saying something.

Well Mark when you questioned the validity of my post because I'm a Christian, and a believer and follower of something that has not been factually proved, ( your words Mark , not mine. )so that would put a large Nr of people outside your terms of reference for sure! I presume that Followers of Islam (also being believers in God) is included in your list of un-approved contributor's? So your preferred posters should all be Atheists'?? Can you actually define who your ideal Boards contributors should be? Make it easy for every one....