What in the name of God is up with a cohort of Irish people's attitude towards Irish Americans

completedit

Has anyone seen the short clip of some "salt of the earth" Dub being asked his view on Paddy's day and going into a 30 second rant about Irish Americans and how he "hates it". It's something I notice a lot with the Irish; this sort of ruthless view on the earnest pride of an Irish American. Is it survivors superiority complex? You're ilk had to leave the country whereas we were able to stay. Perhaps a deep rooted sense of shame among the more fortunate Irish who managed to survive the famine? We can only speculate. However, it's so funny to see Irish humour; comments underneath seem to be suggesting Irish people consider this guy some sort of gas character but nobody commenting how the guy needs to chill the **** out and relax lmao. The joke and funny thing about the video should be the complete overreaction of the old guy but people pick up on the yeah those yanks are annoying and the universal view seems to be that he's got a point.

Montage of Feck

Its more their social values are two generations out of whack with the current values here in the motherland.

Jim_Hodge

Haven't seen it but many 'Irish' Americans would do your head in going on about their being Irish. One family I met there said they were Irish, Italian and Polish - they were third generation American for feck's sake.

L1011

When talking about the stereotypical Irish American - a lot of them have exceptionally tenuous if actually any connections to Ireland; what they do think they know is usually trite nonsense with no connection to reality; plenty of them year for the Ireland of 1940 and not what we've managed to drag ourselves up to in the intervening years; lots of them seem to think we're basically the same as a small US state in terms of diversity of everything here; etc etc

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118795187#Comment_118795187

It's the ones who arrive over and attack everyone the see for not being as Irish as they are.

Larbre34

We can have no complaints. The Country encourages a high level of plastic paddywhackery in its tourism promotions and trade missions around this time of the year and frankly its all very lucrative.

I think what's irritating is the lads who take on the 'prodigal son' mantle and come home and show off by buying drinks for everyone and all that crap, when really they haven't any more wealth than the typical Irish family these days.

It might have been a thing 50+ years ago, but it's kinda tiresome now. However, I wouldn't piss on the parade of anyone who has come here to enjoy Paddy's Day, whether they are Irish American or any other breed.

Hate is a strong word, live and let live. Unless you're Putin. **** that guy.

What in the name of God is up with a cohort of Irish people's attitude towards salt of the earth Dubs?