Why are Dublin people from working class areas so confident?

Speaking as I do for my higher post code brethren, we don't see/acknowledge class. . . .

Either way, what has that got to do with a person's confidence?

I'm not skilled enough.

I think all Dubs are very upfront, open and straight talking and the people of the commuter towns of the neighbouring counties likewise. Is that what you mean by confident? Why wouldn't working class people from the area have the same attributes? They are very positive character traits to have and coming as I do from a part of the country where the norm is to speak out of both sides of the mouth at once, only say what you think the listener wants to hear and cut you to pieces behind your back, its a breath of fresh air. I much prefer forthrightness, even if I don't like what I'm hearing. If you want to experience blunt honesty, OP, go to Yorkshire. All of the truth but none of the charm and playfulness of their Irish counterparts.

It's one of those 'brit isms' that's found it's way into our dialogue over the years.

No problem with people from working class areas been confident- it’s the welfare class areas where people who refuse to work are last going at the working and law abiding people .

Don't be pretending you don't know what it means

"the social group consisting primarily of people who are employed in unskilled or semi-skilled manual or industrial work."

When it comes to a lot of lads that I am thinking off they are chancers and wisecrackers (but not in a bad way).

I meet a lot of lads like that out walking my dog, no complaints all sound and friendly especially if you live in the vicinity.

The Wire, set in Baltimore?

Witty and verbose.....'sheeeeèeeeeet"

i think i can understand where the person is coming from i think most urban working class act with certain bravado even urban small town working class. its the lack of conservatism perhaps as much as over confidence. more middle class people tend not to shout over or interupt people and i think like to weigh up people for a while before the let others know too much about them. conservative rural people are more likely to scope people out a lot more and find out who they are in company with and from what background before committing themselves. this probably is seen as shyness but really cute hoorism. middle class urban people are conservative and act the same way to make sure they are not rubbing up with working class or underclass people.

very strange sociological thing that i always find bears true. a rural middle class person even from a farming background will always find themselves being more comfortable in the company of someone from D4 or SOCODU, than a working class person from thier own rural town.

I think the word you are looking for is "snob". BTW, I'm from a working class background and I was always taught it was rude to interrupt or shout on conversation. Just because someone is working class doesn't mean they are ignorant, rude and uneducated and the opposite holds true.

Southern blacks migrated to Baltimore in huge numbers in the 20th century. I should have made that clear.

You can hear the Southern drawl in the way the black characters on The Wire speak.

In the 1950s and before a lot of these black Southern migrants would have had unskilled jobs in the steel industry.

"The Great Migration, the exodus of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North—or in Baltimore’s case, almost North—Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970, was one of the largest internal movements of people in U.S. history."

A casual observation that I can't back up, but I've noticed that people who grow up in densely populated areas tend to be more outgoing and confident. Maybe it's because you need to be to be heard?

Nothing to do with class, and I enjoy the Dublin wit. I'm not a Dub btw.

Nonsense, Dubs most certainly do not sound the same. You may no be able to distinguish the different accents but they are there.

1. Upper class, sometimes referred to as the D4 accent which I think can sometimes sound like it has a hint of Britishness.
2. Working class, a moderate Dublin accent
3. Inner city and some in the working class areas have a thick Dublin accent sometimes referred to as "common"
4. North County Dublin accent and you could probably throw in other rural parts of Dublin, you can hear a hint of co Meath or neighbouring counties in some of the life long residents accent.

People are talking about extremes.

Not everyone is either Ross O Carroll Kelly or Allright Bud, any change?

Most are somewhere in between.

Im a working class Dub and while you'd know I was a Dub, I dont have a strong accent.

Most areas in Dublin have a cross section of areas and accents. There is no such thing as a Finglas accent for example.