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ih8northsiders

Are the Irish obsessed with Britain?

Britain seems to be the yardstick Ireland bases itself on, when comparing Dublin to another city, a British city is commonly used.

The Irish love their sport teams, their tv shows, their performers, their Z list celebs.

Is this the result of being a small populated isolated poor isolated country? Its funny looking in at the Irish nation as a foreigner(I'm Belgian but Irish parents) Its like a love hate relationship. A person could one second be advocating his hate for 'the brits' and in the next sentence talk about how his british club team beat those foreigners in the champions league. Odd country

You are what I call very culturally reliant on the roastbeefs. Many of my friends wouldn't be able to tell any different between Ireland and Britain. In fact they probably just think Ireland is British and this was only confirmed when they came here. The people just act how you expect British people to act.

Over time if I'm honest I can see the Irish becoming British again. I know many Irish with @________.co.uk e-mails addresses and stuff like that. When its all said and done the Irish don't see themselves as different to Brits and ultimately the more confident dominant British culture will result in Irish seeing themselves as British.

silverharp

you might as well ask is Canada obsessed with the US? I cant see how your conclusion has any merit. For small countires to do well they tend to have to be closely linked to a bigger entity and the EU serves this purpose.

enda1

ih8northsiders wrote: »

Are the Wallonians obsessed with France?

France seems to be the yardstick Wallonia bases itself on, when comparing Liege to another city, a French city is commonly used.

The Wallonians love their sport teams, their tv shows, their performers, their Z list celebs.

Is this the result of being a small populated isolated poor isolated country? Its funny looking in at the Wallonian province as a foreigner. Its like a love hate relationship. A person could one second be advocating his hate for 'the French and in the next sentence talk about how his French club team beat those foreigners in the champions league. Odd province.

You are what I call very culturally reliant on the frogs. Many of my friends wouldn't be able to tell any difference between Wallonia and France. In fact they probably just think Wallonia is French and this was only confirmed when they came here. The people just act how you expect French people to act.

Over time if I'm honest I can see the Wallonian becoming French again. I know many Wallonian with @________.fr e-mails addresses and stuff like that. When its all said and done the Irish don't see themselves as different to French and ultimately the more confident dominant French culture will result in Wallonians seeing themselves as French.

Sound familiar?

Now just replace the word Wallonia with Flanders and French with Dutch to find out how your ugly sister acts.

Belgium is a hate filled racist swamp in the most depressed and blighted corner of Europe. Enjoy pointing fingers though

Zulu

Bullsh1t tbh.

England is our neighbour, so it's natural we have many ties. England is also within spitting distance, so it's also natural that we'd be culturally similar. Other than that though, it's only ignorance that would cause people not to see the differences.

Joey the lips

I tell you what i really hate. Is people from belgium with Irish parents telling me that they hate northsiders and they refering to "The irish" as "You". I bet you hold an irish passport. Interesting.

When your in "We" mode the post might get a better response. Until then i will just say

I love the germans. They gave us lidl and aldi. I love the swedes the gave us hot ladies and Ikea.

Oh and although i am a boes fan I think liverpool is cool, Giggs is god and someone should break his legs when playing liverpool and just because you have an american accent your not cool.

itsallaboutme!!

ih8northsiders wrote: »

Are the Irish obsessed with Britain?

Britain seems to be the yardstick Ireland bases itself on, when comparing Dublin to another city, a British city is commonly used.

The Irish love their sport teams, their tv shows, their performers, their Z list celebs.

Is this the result of being a small populated isolated poor isolated country? Its funny looking in at the Irish nation as a foreigner(I'm Belgian but Irish parents) Its like a love hate relationship. A person could one second be advocating his hate for 'the brits' and in the next sentence talk about how his british club team beat those foreigners in the champions league. Odd country

You are what I call very culturally reliant on the roastbeefs. Many of my friends wouldn't be able to tell any different between Ireland and Britain. In fact they probably just think Ireland is British and this was only confirmed when they came here. The people just act how you expect British people to act.

Over time if I'm honest I can see the Irish becoming British again. I know many Irish with @________.co.uk e-mails addresses and stuff like that. When its all said and done the Irish don't see themselves as different to Brits and ultimately the more confident dominant British culture will result in Irish seeing themselves as British.

If I start i wont stop so all I will say is WOW:eek: Seriously!

miec

Are the Irish obsessed with Britain?

Britain seems to be the yardstick Ireland bases itself on, when comparing Dublin to another city, a British city is commonly used.

The Irish love their sport teams, their tv shows, their performers, their Z list celebs.

Is this the result of being a small populated isolated poor isolated country? Its funny looking in at the Irish nation as a foreigner(I'm Belgian but Irish parents) Its like a love hate relationship. A person could one second be advocating his hate for 'the brits' and in the next sentence talk about how his british club team beat those foreigners in the champions league. Odd country

You are what I call very culturally reliant on the roastbeefs. Many of my friends wouldn't be able to tell any different between Ireland and Britain. In fact they probably just think Ireland is British and this was only confirmed when they came here. The people just act how you expect British people to act.

Over time if I'm honest I can see the Irish becoming British again. I know many Irish with @________.co.uk e-mails addresses and stuff like that. When its all said and done the Irish don't see themselves as different to Brits and ultimately the more confident dominant British culture will result in Irish seeing themselves as British.

If you are going to try and raise a few tempuratures with the above, I suggest you give a proper arguement, the above is lame and not worthy of engagment.

ih8northsiders

enda1 wrote: »

Sound familiar?

Now just replace the word Wallonia with Flanders and French with Dutch to find out how your ugly sister acts.

Belgium is a hate filled racist swamp in the most depressed and blighted corner of Europe. Enjoy pointing fingers though

Hahahhaa well it beats being an island to another island anyway.

And funny an Irish toad lecturing me about racism:rolleyes:

England is also within spitting distance

No it is not. the distance from brussels to london is like 320km. Dublin to London is like 462km.

it must suck, while we have close access to many cities(paris, london, amsterdam) by great transport system you are stuck on an island:D

mjg

ih8northsiders wrote: »

it must suck, while we have close access to many cities(paris, london, amsterdam) by great transport system you are stuck on an island

Ah, I see where you went wrong there, it's spelled "Ireland". Never mind.

Wizard007

What an ar$e. How old are you? 6?

Zulu

ih8northsiders wrote: »

Dublin to London is like 462km.

:rolleyes:

Fail.

It might serve you well to crack open that primary school geography book again. You'll notice London isn't on the far west coast of England. It's about 13 miles between the two islands at the closest point.

Ergo, Ireland is very close to England. Now run along child.

ih8northsiders

But other countries are much closer, like mine, Netherlands and France and anyway your just proving my point. English culture dominates Ireland. i mean could you imagine british people watching some foreigners show like fair city like the irish do with british soaps???? could you imagine brits watching you're a star? lmao

mike65

You Sir are a Belgian tit. And there can be no tittier sort of tit than a Belgian tit.

Not exactly Blackadder 3rd, yes I'll take the ban

tbh

ih8northsiders wrote: »

i mean could you imagine british people watching some foreigners show like fair city like the irish do with british soaps????

you mean like neighbours?

Wizard007

mike65 wrote: »

You Sir are a Belgian tit. And there can be no tittier sort of tit than a Belgian tit.

Not exactly Blackadder 3rd, yes I'll take the ban

+1

Fantastic!!!!!

Rondolfus

ih8northsiders wrote: »

i mean could you imagine british people watching some foreigners show like fair city like the irish do with british soaps???? could you imagine brits watching you're a star? lmao

I suppose you've never watched "Friends" or the "Simpsons" or the other million American film and tv shows that are watched all around the world! Or how about American idol? All shows that people in Europe watch, but you can bet your last croissant Americans don't watch any Euro trash!

Wow a bigger nations media infiltrating a smaller nations. Hardly a revealtion now is it?? Spot the troll lol

The fact is English language media dominates the Western World. The two largest English language speaking nations are UK and USA. Its natrual Irish people watch their shows, their bigger populations ensure more resources and better qualities of shows.

Besides one can't watch anything produced on the continent with the actors having sex every two minutes. Mainland European TV is like watching a 70's American porn film. No storylines, crap sets, and sex. Fair City is like this but without the sex.

BTW Have you seem fair city?? Can you blame the Irish for looking abroad for entertainment???

ih8northsiders

its different. irish culture cannot thrive in the face of not only americanisation but also britishisation but i notice the irish dont view british culture as foreign.

zenith

ih8northsiders banned for two weeks for:
trolling

This thread is also going nowhere, and ain't a humanities topic, so I'm closing it.