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I saw something strange in Dublin on Sunday. I was walking by Trinity and this guy passed me with a couple of hurleys and wearing a Kerry jersey. The only reason I can come up with to explain this highly unusual sight was that the guy was an Arab and probably was not brought up to believe that Kerry people just don’t do hurling.
It is funny that on the same day that I saw the above curiosity that I read in the Sunday Tribune that “Three-in-five believe that Irish culture and values are being diluted by all the new arrivals”. Now, I know they are probably right, Hurling is not really part of Kerry culture. Ok, enough with the Kerry hurling references but is there a difference between what people think and what is actually the case. I have heard about a good few stories about “New Irish” learning Irish, I have seen stories about new immigrants playing minor hurling (I come from hurling heartland a story about anyone playing football would be news 
) I know an engineer from Singapore who knows which pubs to get good Guinness as well as most people.
So what is Irish culture? Is it any of these things? There are people born and bred in Ireland who never watch GAA, never listen to Irish music, never speak Irish, never drink Guinness; are they less Irish than an Irish person who listens to Planxty while playing GAA and speaking Irish? If not, what makes them Irish and not the Arab hurling Kerryman? If we are going to do this immigration debate, isn’t it time we asked and answered that question?
Then we can work on the questions of can we cope with more workers from Bulgaria and Romania.
I’m not sure where people get this from; our culture has survived an actual military invasion and occupation and now because we get people living here from another country (in the small minority too) we’re suddenly going to blow up Croke Park and replace it with a Mosque or something?
Did British culture die out when the Irish went to work there?
As you say there are plenty of people born and raised in Ireland, with parents and grandparents born and raised here too, that don’t do much in the way of Irish culture and there are plenty of new Irish who do.
No one feared the end of Irish culture when teenagers started calling sweets candy and the shopping centre a mall, and no one seems to fear an end of our culture despite the heavy influence of the yobbish lad-culture of England.
Just like the British before them these new Irish are all set to become more Irish than the Irish themselves, the fact that so many play in the GAA, speak Irish and know a few ballads (after a very short time of immigration being an issue to us) proves that through and through.
What is culture?
Edit: I mean that seriously not as some deep-sounding nonce
yea well when the arabs are on the kerry team they will be well known for it
i know nothing about sport but i do know that sean og o hailpin cork -one of his parents hail from fiji……..
I believe that you can usefully translate “diluting Irish culture” into “making brown babies”.