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

I celebrate all the positives of multi-culturalism, of which there are many 😊

Yet you seem to find it remarkably hard to point to them when pressed previously. So let's recap the positives: Exotic food and people. Feeling of smug charity where applicable. And it seems more medals in certain sports if African folks are involved(as I noted previously the US looks like a majority Black nation in track and field) and eh...

And of course you avoid the negatives like the very plague. It's all happy clappy goodness unless the native populations are to blame for all ills.

No, I'm pointing out that the exoticism is a large part of the multiculturist listed "positives". As are the outliers in sport, the arts and indeed examples like yours. Read up on the experiences of the Turks in Germany for the craic. The Bloomberg article itself notes it. And the others it lists were legal migrants to an ex European colonial nation that was built on immigration(and all White). Try being an African American looking to start up the next Google or Tesla and they're locals for centuries.

And as I've pointed out look behind these success stories and the wider picture is not nearly so rosey, not least for the migrant populations who look or are culturally most different to the "natives". Discrimination against Turks in Germany is still very much in play generations after the first of them went there. There have even been mass murders of Turks by Germans. Never mind the Turkish criminal gangs and their own right wing groups.

I've never not once denied prejudice and racism aren't major factors in "multicultural" societies. It's a cast iron given that they are and it doesn't matter when or where in history or today or what colour or creed is involved. The "other" is pointed at. Always. It's one of the main reasons I consider multiculturalism a busted flush and a socio-political fantasy.

Modern multiculturalism as a politic and creed of its own sprang from the ashes of European colonialism and empire in the Old and New World. Nations left with a legacy of crap they had to retroactively deal with. America being the obvious example, France and the UK closer to home. The happy clappy sop of "melting pots" and "diversity" came along to paper over the cracks of a failure of history. We see no such sops outside the western sphere. Even within the west we see differences. The gulf between East and Western Europe as an example. The latter had those colonial pasts, the former didn't so didn't have to try to retroactively fix them.

Ireland should have been in the former camp, but bad planning and loopholes for non EU migration in the middle of an economic upswing scuppered us there and current governmental foolhardy open door, roof over your head and among the highest social supports in the world posturing just adds to the pile on. But nothing to see here, at all at all.