How are white people supposed to feel about their own race?

[Final-Fan]

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Final-Fan said:

This is really interesting.  If you are okay with talking about it, I would like to hear more about how an Irish person was treated like filth in the USA.  I thought anti-Irish discrimination was a thing of the past.  As for "putting up with crap from the media", I thought that the only time American media disparaged the Irish was on St. Patrick's Day

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Now now I am back living in Ireland, surrounded by Americans. The nice kind who couldn't put up with the same xenophobic shit at home that was the reason I left. If you can't live happily in the USA as an Irish person, then i don't know who would like it there. I'm sure some states are ok, but I tried numerous in the Midwest and it stunk of stupid, racists, bigot. The list above could go on and on. Wasted years!

And the media? The only time Ireland is on the news there is when something bad happens. They openly make racist remarks about Irish people. They claim we steal their jobs because we have European head quarters here for there companies. Where else would it be, the fools? it's the EUROPEAN headquarters. And the job stealing? We are all skilled IT and business people. We take those euro market USA company jobs and we do a great job. Then we send back the jobs from our companies that we don't want. Because we get free college and America doesn't have the IT people to fill those jobs. Well we don't have farmers and manufacturers to fill our Kerry group or CRH jobs. So we send those to the USA. The USA makes deals with those companies and that's ok. But when my little country does the same? Shaaaaaaaaaame. Propaganda bs. 

I see.  Standard anti-immigrant bigotry, seasoned with just enough knowledge to make them comfortable displaying their shocking ignorance.  I'm sorry for that. 

But it often seems like the only time ANYTHING is in the news is when something bad happens.  I do remember hearing media talk about jobs getting outsourced to Ireland, but I always thought they took a "better Ireland than India" angle; I guess not.  The only thing that Ireland is really "stealing" is the companies themselves in those dumb corporate inversions, and that's something to blame on the corporations.