Funny Irish perspectives of Race.

Sam Kade

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Do you ever notice a lot of Irish tend to refer to any none pasty white northern European as 'black.' They've no understanding of the Races.

I've heard Jason Sherlock being referred to as black. The O'hAilpin brothers also.

A college friend of mine told of how big ignorant cnuts in his locale of Dingle Co. Kerry would to refer to Spanish and Italian tourists as N1ggers. I mean wtf?

Both disgustingly racist and factually wrong.

So who's this Patsy White fella

Poor Uncle Tom

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Do you ever notice a lot of Irish tend to refer to any none pasty white northern European as 'black.' They've no understanding of the Races.

That sentence could more accurately read:


Have you noticed that a lot of under educated people with limited life prospects tend to vent their sense of self oppression on anyone different from themselves.

My limited experience has thought me that no one race has the monopoly on bullying / ignorance / race-phobia and education can be the answer to most questions,

Sam Kade

mikemac2 wrote: »

I'm black and I'm proud :cool:

Racist b@stards those commitments, worse than the black and white minstrels.

Wibbs

pickarooney wrote: »

This Caucasoid/mongoloid/negroid nonsense belongs in the 19th century.

The attitudes that surrounded the definitions certainly P, but as a general description of the basic groups of world populations of modern humans it's pretty accurate.

OldMrBrennan83

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fatknacker

I heard people call a goalie on the Irish team Paki before and he wasn't even dark. Such racism. Appalling.

Sam Kade

Patww79 wrote: »

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He looks more like a chink.

Irish Guitarist

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Does it? I think most people call tell the differences between a person of Asian, Caucasoid or Negroid apart.

Caucasoid very diverse of course. An Indian and a Swede for instance are both technically Caucasian.

Most people in Ireland can too. The few people you're talking about aren't representative of the rest of the country.

spoonerhead wrote: »

For some people in Dublin anyone from Eastern Europe is Polish, completely racist and ignorant...

How in the name of all that's good and holy is mistaking one accent for another 'racist'? I can guarantee you if you went to a non English speaking country the majority of people would have no clue whether you were Irish or English.

I was with my sister and mother in a restaurant in Cyprus years ago. It was quiet and the waitress, a Polish woman, started a conversation with my sister. She asked my sister if she could guess where she was from. My sister thought about it for a minute and said "Poland". The waitress then asked my sister where she was from. She was surprised she was Irish because she thought "all Irish people had red hair and freckles".

blinding

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

We've already had that earlier in the thread. We're not universally liked as we sometimes wish to think.

This fable that everyone loves the Irish should be debunked in a lot of people heads .

Who is going to tell people that are known for fighting and drunkeness that they don't like them.......what could possibly go wrong .

Not to mention that to many cultures getting blotto-ed drunk is blooming crazy.....

You would be surprised how much of the British population think all Irish People are Irish Travellers.........

Spider Web

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

not universally liked as we sometimes wish to think.

By "we", I presume you mean those Irish who think that. I think this gets overstated - and on the flipside there is enough self loathing here to compensate. On social media I see far more of that than of hostility from other nationalities, to be fair.

Most people don't think too much about what other nationalities think of us, whether positive or negative.

Although the constantly drunken, loud, messy eejits abroad - in Australia especially - do let us down. It would be extremely simplistic of anyone to decide we are all like that though.

steddyeddy

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Do you ever notice a lot of Irish tend to refer to any none pasty white northern European as 'black.' They've no understanding of the Races.

I've heard Jason Sherlock being referred to as black. The O'hAilpin brothers also.

A college friend of mine told of how big ignorant cnuts in his locale of Dingle Co. Kerry would to refer to Spanish and Italian tourists as N1ggers. I mean wtf?

Both disgustingly racist and factually wrong.

Never heard that before. Do you not see the irony in painting every Irish person in the same light?

DEFTLEFTHAND

steddyeddy wrote: »

Never heard that before. Do you not see the irony in painting every Irish person in the same light?

I'm not painting every Irish person in the same light. I'm stating that it is common not universal.

archer22

Sam Kade wrote: »

He looks more like a chink.

I think this poster is one of the kind the OP was talking about :rolleyes:

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DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I'm not painting every Irish person in the same light. I'm stating that it is common not universal.

But it's not common at all. You need to get out more and see more of Ireland.

Poor Uncle Tom

archer22 wrote: »

I think this poster is one of the kind the OP was talking about :rolleyes:

Give Sam a bit of credit, The noise from your moral outrage motor is drowning out your sarcasm alarm.

archer22

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Give Sam a bit of credit, The noise from your moral outrage motor is drowning out your sarcasm alarm.

Ok that's 2....seems to be quite a few around.

whisky_galore

barneystinson wrote: »

No I've never noticed any of the things you describe.

Me neither.
Must be the company you keep OP.