Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Absolutely Bern, I'll second that for shure
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Yes Bern, but just try going into a pub in Cavan with my English accent during the Troubles and see how you are welcomed!
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i never had any problems during that time except for a drunk on a train between cork and dublin and one snide comment in a dublin bar and nothing at all in the 6 counties.
most people i encountered were fascinated by my cockney accent and just assumed i was a west ham supporter, thankfully i was so conversations could be struck up rather easily.
i remember seeing a satirical t.v. show on rte in the late seventies, there was a sketch showing st patrick's arrival on irish shores.
an ancient irish tribe welomed him with banners "brits out".
Keith Sansum1
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well said howard
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With the greatest possible respect, Peter, that isn't anything to do with integration into the British way of life. It;s to do with a country being deeply suspicious of a nation that has perpetrated atrocities on them. But we won't go into that too far - just to point out that it is "foreigners" integrating into Britain we are on about, not the Brits being accepted elsewhere!! Different kettle of fish!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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well said bern
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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What about dual nationality? Perhaps if immigrants applying for British nationality were required to give up their former citizenship, it might help them integrate better, as they would have made a choice of leaving their old culture behind and embracing a new one.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Bern re your 25, Just an observation about Irish inclusivity being somewhat er.... Selective. Referring back to your 20.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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alexander;
we need to have a big culture change if we truely believe in the above posts
before any of it would work
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