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Isn't multiculturalism great...

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  • #662
    paleoperson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    No, I think it's terrible.

    People should stick to their own country, that's what I've always said. It's a travesty that there are so many cultures blending together now, it will only result in monoculture.


  • #663
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Nationalism causes nothing but grief around the world, but she will be exposed to that. And the arts aren't exactly rooted in science, but I hope she has an appreciation for those too. After all, how dull would life be if she grows up saying "well, I do not know the scientific formula that proves that"!

    You say nationalism causes nothing but grief but then it sounds like your defending religion afterwards by comparing it to arts and other things not rooted in science.. If anything has caused nothing but grief in this world it is religion, and at this moment it is islam which is causing by far the most grief throughout the world


  • #664
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,116 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Factofthematteris 'Conor's lovely day out' wasn't really all that multi-cultural. He just met quite similar people doing their thing, living their lives, looking after thier kids, making a crust, being hospitable human beings with one another.

    Perhaps that's what bothers ethno-nationalists most of all and strangely enough it's what bothers Islamists/Nazis/Racists/Sectarians too.


  • #665
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Nah.. some of us are just bothered by misleading & naive topic titles... no need to go labelling everyone who objects as some kind of extremist. :rolleyes:


  • #666
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Nah.. some of us are just bothered by misleading & naive topic titles... no need to go labelling everyone who objects as some kind of extremist. :rolleyes:

    I don't think in any of your previous 20+ posts you said that the only issue was the topic title?


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  • #667
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I don't think in any of your previous 20+ posts you said that the only issue was the topic title?

    Did you check? Actually, I believe one of them mentions the thread title, and the rest were responding the multiculturalism/migration/religion posts.


  • #668
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    What kind of lollipop was it?


  • #669
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭ [Deleted User]


    aaronjumper wrote: »
    What kind of lollipop was it?

    The ones that are kinda...chalky, on the plastic pipe stalks. Not the boiled sweet on rolled paper type ones...


  • #670
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The ones that are kinda...chalky, on the plastic pipe stalks. Not the boiled sweet on rolled paper type ones...
    Ah jaysus, that's awful. What's the world coming to at all at all.


  • #671
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The ones that are kinda...chalky, on the plastic pipe stalks. Not the boiled sweet on rolled paper type ones...

    Sounds like a Swizzels lollipop. Loved those as a kid!


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  • #672
    philstar
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    i just hope with the impending papal visit next year that Ireland doesn't revert back to being the backward catholic country that it used to be


  • #673
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    philstar wrote: »
    i just hope with the impending papal visit next year that Ireland doesn't revert back to being the backward catholic country that it used to be

    Amen


  • #674
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,271 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    philstar wrote: »
    i just hope with the impending papal visit next year that Ireland doesn't revert back to being the backward catholic country that it used to be

    No fear of that. There'll be a few thousand people (mostly older) who'll turn out for it and some protesters, but for most people it'll be a non-event except to grumble about the traffic and parking restrictions during it.


  • #675
    Spider Web
    Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭Spider Web


    There's a lady from the DR of Congo who sought asylum in Ireland a good few years back and lives in Castlebar. Massive Mayo fan, does her braids in the Mayo colours. Been interviewed a few times. She's deadly - seems a real sound, positive, proactive person with a great attitude. She works for assimilation/integration. I love folks like that - making the best of their situation and being considerate of others too. And DR of Congo would have been a harsh place.

    It'd be better if she lived in Cong though. :pac:


  • #676
    philstar
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    philstar wrote: »
    i just hope with the impending papal visit next year that Ireland doesn't revert back to being the backward catholic country that it used to be
    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    No fear of that. There'll be a few thousand people (mostly older) who'll turn out for it and some protesters, but for most people it'll be a non-event except to grumble about the traffic and parking restrictions during it.

    ?

    wouldn't be so sure, the irish are easily lead (fooled)

    and deep down Catholicism is deeply enshrined in the Irish psyche esp in rural areas and up north with the whole clanish catholic vs protestant mindset


  • #677
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    No fear of that. There'll be a few thousand people (mostly older) who'll turn out for it and some protesters, but for most people it'll be a non-event except to grumble about the traffic and parking restrictions during it.

    Think you'll be in for a bit of a shock.

    If the venues are comparable, it wouldn't surprise me if attendance figures were on a par with the visit of JP II in 1979.


  • #678
    eleventh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭eleventh


    I'd say go with integration but have a limit on the proportion of immigrants allowed to the rest of the population at any given time.


  • #679
    eleventh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭eleventh


    paleoperson wrote:
    It's a travesty that there are so many cultures blending together now, it will only result in monoculture.
    I would not like to see a monoculture, but that's the direction things seem to be going in.


  • #680
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭ [Deleted User]


    eleventh wrote: »
    I would not like to see a monoculture, but that's the direction things seem to be going in.

    Unlikely. Western culture encourages minority groups to exist. The only monocultures you'll see will be outside of Europe & the US.


  • #681
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭philstar


    another great thing about multiculturalism is the variety of food and food outlets and restuarants lebanese, thai, greek, indian etc great to see


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  • #682
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,822 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    philstar wrote: »
    another great thing about multiculturalism is the variety of food and food outlets and restuarants lebanese, thai, greek, indian etc great to see

    I'm having sushi for lunch.

    Although it's probably never been anywhere near a japanese person :)


  • #683
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,822 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Think you'll be in for a bit of a shock.

    If the venues are comparable, it wouldn't surprise me if attendance figures were on a par with the visit of JP II in 1979.

    It won't be that much. I do have to disagree with the poster who said that it would only be a few thousand. I can see far more than that attending.


  • #684
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    paleoperson wrote: »
    No, I think it's terrible.

    People should stick to their own country, that's what I've always said. It's a travesty that there are so many cultures blending together now, it will only result in monoculture.

    I really really hate this line.

    Cultures and nations do not exist for anyone's entertainment. They are not static, and are a RESULT of humans, rather than a prescriptive definition of humans.


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