Why do Irish people begrudge so much?

I don't really begrudge but jaysus like the rest of the Irish I love moaning about everything, the more trivial the better.

It's to do partially with our culture and, I think, our value of I suppose I would call it Xenia. Xenia in ancient Greece was the concept of looking after visitors and generally being nice to strangers. We have something similar here where we are expected to provide even for strangers and yet we are also expected not to be a nuisance or impede on our hosts or friends good intentions or whatever. We are not meant to bother other people with ourselves. Our begrudgery, at the end of the day, is something like or social interaction and the expectation of us to defer and hold our tongues and even our needs and this leads us to bottle up things and then later feel begrudging, as evident by our cuntiness to other people when we feel it is morally advantageous.

Now that sounds like a load of ****e but if I had the right words I could describe adequately it's just viewing and explaining a part of your culture that has been internalised to such an extent it is a foundation of our attitudes makes it very hard to do particularly in such a short time.

Otherwise is partially because we are insecure.

But Bono is a cutn.

44leto wrote: »

But Bono is a cutn.

And in Bono's head he truely believes that Irish people commonly hold this opinion because of their 'begrudgery' and hatred of anyone successful.

Interestingly, I've never read a single bad word about The Edge, Larry Mullin or Adam Clayton on boards

I begrudge drug dealers flash cars and lavish lifestyles.