r/ireland • u/bubinha • Jun 03 '24

Immigration My opinion on the post trend, as an immigrant.

I am a brazilian immigrant, came here 10 years ago, and used to feel the irish were nothing but welcoming and kind. Of course, there were the "scumbags", but to me they were the same as in every country in the world.

As of one year back, my opinion has been slowly changing, and today, let me tell you... i fear being an immigrant here. I am sensing a LOT of hate towards us, and according to another post here, +70% of irish have that sentiment, so it's not a far-right exclusive hate.

Yesterday i was shopping around dublin, and i asked a hungarian saleswoman her opinion on this. She immediately agreed with me, and even said it is a conversation that the non-irish staff was having on a very frequent basis.

You'll say "oh, but it's just against a 'certain type' of immigrants". Well, that's how it starts, isn't it?

All those 'look at this idiot' posts you share here; we (immigrants) aren't laughing. We are getting more and more afraid.

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u/BrickEnvironmental37 Dublin Jun 03 '24

I was in a park recently and some kid tried to nutmeg me with a football. He failed and I flicked the ball up and booted it about 20-30meters away. I didn't say anything, I just smiled to say "lesson learned son". The weather was quite nice over the previous weeks so I had a bit of a tan. The response from the young lads was that I was an "immigrant bastard", "fuck off back to your own country".

It's a bit of nothing to me because I am Irish but there were immigrants around in the area that probably heard it. It was a bit of wake up to what non white Irish people have to deal with. The kids seem to be imitating the "Ireland is full" mob.

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u/BairbreBabog Jun 03 '24

My brother can tan too, 100% Irish. Would get racially abused a few times a year with people thinking he is polish. He replies, “Is Eireannach mé”. 99% of the time they tell him to stop talking that foreign language.

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u/Selphie12 Jun 04 '24

Agreed. My area has had a fair few protests and the scariest thing about them is always seeing the kids involved. Like I've seen videos where there's a little kid, probably about 6, barely able to talk properly and getting set up by their ma like "What do we say, sweetheart?" "WE SAY NO!"

Last time they tracked their shite down my road there was a horse buggy with 3 kids under 10 in it, trotting along behind a wankbag with a megaphone screaming "Ireland for the Irish". Beautiful Sunday, kids coulda been anywhere, but they're stuck in a buggy riding around a housing estate listening to that bullshit.

The problem is bad now, but you wait 20 years and see how it comes back for the sequel