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How is your culture being erased?

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  • 27-02-2013 1:58pm
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    old hippy
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    Apparently, if you read the more insistent daily papers or listen to some of the louder voices on the wireless - Irish culture is being eroded by immigration.

    Do you agree with this and if so, how is it directly affecting you?


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    Valetta
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    old hippy wrote: »
    Apparently, if you read the more insistent daily papers or listen to some of the louder voices on the wireless - Irish culture is being eroded by immigration.

    Do you agree with this and if so, how is it directly affecting you?

    Any examples?

    "Irish culture" is a very general term.


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    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    My culture isn't being erased. It's evolving, expanding and progressing.


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    syklops
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    Immigration or Emigration?


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    #5
    Birneybau
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    The longer I am out of school, the more my grasp of the Irish language seeps from my brain.

    Sin E.

    Oh yeah, I blame the immagents.


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    hyperborean
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    What culture can be described as specifically Irish?


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    crockholm
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    You're like a dog with a bone OP


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    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    I like globalisation and hope to contribute to it for the rest of my career.


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    Duggy747
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    Oh no, not my God-fearing, gay-hating culture!!


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    Seedy Arling
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    Canesten.


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    #11
    gobnaitolunacy
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    old hippy wrote: »
    Apparently, if you read the more insistent daily papers

    A polite way of saying 'tabloid rags/toilet paper'?


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    MomijiHime
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    It hasn't affected me. I quite like multiculturalism


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    Chips Lovell
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    I don't recall hearing anyone recently claiming our culture is being erased by immigration.

    Examples?


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    [Deleted User]
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    I had to google what a wireless was.


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    sesswhat
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    The locals now find they don't have it all their own way when it comes to the traditional pig-ignorant parking outside the school.


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    xLexie
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    They're trying to get us all into houses and have made it illegal for us to camp alongside the road, boss


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    The Barefoot Pizza Thief
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    Are you expecting examples in "red crayon" here also?


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    ejmaztec
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    The Barefoot Pizza Thief wrote: »
    Are you expecting examples in "red crayon" here also?

    No, a blood sweat and tears cocktail on the end of a quill is the way these things operate.


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    bbam
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    Seachmall wrote: »
    My culture isn't being erased. It's evolving, expanding and progressing.

    This is it in a nutshell.
    Far too often people think of culture as a snapshot of history, something that must remain unchanged and repeated for ever more.
    I see it much more as an evolution, I mark certain important events but expect them to become less important as new experiences come into my life.
    Life is for living for yourself, not trying to make it into some sort of historic re enactment, and having no tolerance for anyone who won't look through your rose tinted glasses.


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    wp_rathead
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    Our culture? Of locking up children, women and the disabiled and mental illl into horific institutes under the collar of the catholic church and a population who held ignorant, bigotted mindsets..
    Ya, I think I can live with a bit of that culture erasing


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    Knasher
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    Irish culture is whatever the people of Ireland say it is. By which I mean people who live and raise children here, regardless of what nationality they, or their parents were. Culture changes over time and the culture of modern Ireland is no more or less Irish than the culture of Catholic Ireland, or before that Pagan Ireland or Viking Ireland or Celtic Ireland. It is just newer.

    If people truly feel that the epitome of Irish culture is (probably) whatever it was during their childhood. They are free to do their best to preserve it. Some groups have even been quite successful at it, the Amish for example. Just don't expect the rest of us to live in the past with you.


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    dttq
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    old hippy wrote: »
    Apparently, if you read the more insistent daily papers or listen to some of the louder voices on the wireless - Irish culture is being eroded by immigration.

    Do you agree with this and if so, how is it directly affecting you?

    Ironically by the likes of the Daily Mail with a track record and mile long portfolio in paddy bashing and punch magazine like caricatures of the Irish. Any sh!te will do even if it contradicts previous articles, to sell a newspaper for the likes of the Mail.


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    #23
    El Horseboxo
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    As a Latino from the US. Immigration is increasing my culture. More wetbacks please.


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    Pherekydes
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    No, a blood sweat and tears cocktail on the end of a quill is the way these things operate.

    Blood, Sweat and Tears are American.

    I denounce you to the monocultural secret police! Please stay where you are and the Gestapo will be along to arrest you momentarily.

    I also must denounce myself: I went to see the Bolshoi. :o


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    Sky King
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    How is your culture being erased?

    The guards are catching up on me for a litany of offences, the scrap metal man no longer deals in cash (now the bastard wants a PPS number), the doo gooders are on to me for animal abuse an I'm being forced to educate me kids boss.


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    pickarooney
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    I'm not allowed use Ogham on my number plates any more :(


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    CreepingDeath
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    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    I don't recall hearing anyone recently claiming our culture is being erased by immigration.

    Examples?

    Maybe the loss of traditional Irish names, Vladimir ?


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    #28
    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    I cant say Bangarda anymore


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    old hippy
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    crockholm wrote: »
    You're like a dog with a bone OP

    That's exactly what I'm like, crockholm. Because whenever someone claims that immigration is affecting Ireland's culture - I always ask how it's affecting them, directly. I've never once had a straight answer from the oppressed masses yet :D

    Woof!


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    Nodin
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    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Maybe the loss of traditional Irish names, Vladimir ?


    ....they aren't being replaced with Eastern European ones though, are they?


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    CreepingDeath
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    old hippy wrote: »
    That's exactly what I'm like, crockholm. Because whenever someone claims that immigration is affecting Ireland's culture - I always ask how it's affecting them, directly. I've never once had a straight answer from the oppressed masses yet :D

    Indirectly it affects our national social welfare, housing and education bills.
    So we've all less money to drink.


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