People who use the Race Card and Race Baiters

[Oggie]

To be fair, you're going to suffer self esteem issues if people are treating you differently because of your ethnic background. Not everybody has a 'get on with it' attitude.

You're talking to an Irish person here man, 'my people' were the b*tches of the British Empire for 800 years. I come from one of those ethnic backgrounds you mentioned.

I could be one of those people that feel they are somehow owed one by the Empire (as sadly, a lot of Irish do), but what is the point? It has nothing to do with me, it was a different era with different people. Why should I feel resentment towards people that have done nothing to me personally? In that case we would never learn from our mistakes and irrational hatred would continue forever.

I've gotten all the jokes about being Irish, spud-munching, bogtrotting gingerbread men. I've also had genuine spite and hatred thrown my way because I'm Irish, but the best thing for yourself and the thing that annoys racists more than anything is when you laugh it off. While they are wasting their time boiling their blood with negativity, I'm out enjoying life and not giving a damn what they say

At the end of the day, if someone has a go at someone because they are of a different skin colour, ancestry, culture etc... it is a problem that reflects on them, rather than the victim. They have put themselves below the victim of their attacks by being the height of ignorance, a racist. Therefore, I consider myself better than them and any shred of inferiority on my part is nowhere to be seen.

Fair play, you've got a great attitude, but like i said earlier, not everyone has such a positive outlook and that shouldn't be a detriment to them. Everybody is different and if something offends somebody, then it offends somebody. Some people cope with it differently and it's great that you've coped with it in such a way.

Cheers man, I understand all cases are different, but I really believe a positive outlook goes a long way. I try to turn everything in my life into a positive in some way, no matter how negative it seems.

I also know it is different when you are of a minority skin colour, and obviously that makes the person a much easier target because they stand out. My run-ins with racists all came from having an Irish accent or wearing Ireland jerseys in England, got some nasty stuff coming my way on a number of occasions. But every country has it's fools!

My girlfriend is Chinese and she has run into a ton of spite here in Ireland on a number of occasions, especially now that the economy is flattening and foreigners are shifting the blame. Strangest thing was one day we were walking through Dublin City center and an old woman walked up to my girlfriend and said 'Go home Chinese pig!' My girlfriend spotted that the old woman was wearing a necklace of Jesus on a cross and said to her with a smile 'I hope your God forgives you for that.' Then my girlfriend just walked off laughing... old woman was speechless, it was brilliant.