discrimination

[Nicole]

one day I was waiting for a bus in dublin city centre and this little old lady was passing by pulling her trolly full of grosseries, and I don't know what pissed her off cos she just turned around looked me straight in in the eye and said "why don't you go back to your country" lol....

I have been asked to get back to my own country also a few times, not in UK tho, Went thru all sort of discrimination as immigrant. People also picked on my english saying stupid comments but I have to admit more people support me than discriminate. I also experienced a racial discrimination, have been called white bitch few times. But from perspective I have to say that I fell pity for people who pick on other people and discriminate, I think they are narrow minded.

[Experienced Punter esq]

there are all sorts of reasons why a person might recieve discrimination
ethnicity, sex, disability, drug use etc.

how challenging it must be to be disabled and yet put up with peoples
stares and insecurities, or being a nice person, but people pre-judging you due
to your ethnicity.

have you been on the recieving end of discrimination?

having been in a wheelchair myself since an accident when I was a teenager I must say while discrimination exists I must say in general people are kind & very thoughtful ...

[69lover]

That may be your opinion and way of responding but it's not mine, nor most of the people here !

Well as i already said it is my opinion and each to their own

[NaughyYanna]

And lets not forget about Irish hospital staff not giving pre-natal care to their pregnant African patients becaue of the color of their skin and nationality, now that's SICK![/QUOTE]

[69lover]

And lets not forget about Irish hospital staff not giving pre-natal care to their pregnant African patients becaue of the color of their skin and nationality, now that's SICK!

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With that i agree but it is not the staff most of which now are not irish anyway

[comicbookguy]

And lets not forget about Irish hospital staff not giving pre-natal care to their pregnant African patients becaue of the color of their skin and nationality, now that's SICK!

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I would like to see those responsible prosecuted if this is true, no oneshould be denied this basic level of health care in Ireland today !

[doodlebug]

Folks, there is one thing that shames me so much in our recent history. We had a (totally unnecessary) citizenship referendum a few years back, driven by our then Minister for Justice. To our shame 85% of those who voted decided to deny automatic citizenship to children born here. If I ever get to be in power that is the first thing I will repeal. It is one of the greatest shames of modern Ireland.

[sweet rebeka]

there are all sorts of reasons why a person might recieve discrimination
ethnicity, sex, disability, drug use etc.

how challenging it must be to be disabled and yet put up with peoples
stares and insecurities, or being a nice person, but people pre-judging you due
to your ethnicity.

have you been on the recieving end of discrimination?

it was happening to me a few times. once i want to go in a club and they didn't let me just because i am not irish.
at the hospital when i went i was feeling bad but i just stay 3 hours waitting and i receive a paracetamol. i also pay 100euro.
and at the jym,they asked my student card,but just because i am not from here i was asked to go between some hours. when i went,told me that i should come between some other hours,i went second day and the story repeted.

[benben]

Nobody made me feel bad because i am brazilian,maybe a bit because of my bad english,lol

I am French and my english level is low. On top of that I live in Belfast and they have a strong accent.

There is a a shop where I go to buy cigarettes (Marlboro). there are 3 different cashiers. With 2 of them I have no problem, they understand what I am saying, no prolem. With the other one (a old fat woman), it is a nightmare

Everytime when I see that I will have to ask her 20 red marlboro I know that she is going to ask me to repeat 3 or 4 times and I hate that because I am sure she understands but she doesn't like foreign people in her country. Sometimes there are people waiting and listening to me and it is a shame on me

But then i thought ok it is normal if she has this behaviour as it is her country, she is at home and I stopped to smoke

[anitasizzle]

[QUOTE=comicbookguy;band can not be judged on the actions and comments of a few, these things take time.[/QUOTE]

I must confess that I've never sat down and read or viewed movies, tv prgrammes, or documentaries about how bad black people were treated in America because I didn't want my mind corrupted and filled with hatred towards my fellow human being, so I blindly went through life living by the Golden Rule-''Do to others as you would have them do to you.'' I mean for the longest time, untill I went to Ireland, I honestly can say I didn't know how to treat someone badly because of their race, nationality, religion or whatever. Everybody got treated equally, and fairly, it was how I raised, and all I knew.

Now, I'll tell you the truth I can't stand white people, and it's not just Irish people, English Eastern European the whole lot of you all, you've got personality traits that are down right offensive. And remember this is coming from a person who went out of their way to be a lover of manknd; a person who really didn't know how to be a racist if somebody paid them.