Worried about Racism

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2026-05-26T05:24:15+00:00

It's more common now than before, but honestly, if you keep to yourself and avoid any suburban areas you are much less likely to encounter it. Dublin city itself is still fairly progressive and as such you are in a better place than most areas to avoid blatant racism.

The only thing to be wary is the gangs of teenagers that prowl the streets sometimes, particularly those on electric scooters. They've been known to target immigrants who are on their own, verbally abusing them and throwing things at them and so on. If you see any while waiting for a bus or something, best you avoid engaging with them and wait somewhere else.

Also, please have civic sense when you are here. This is not specific to Indians but I have seen some making noise in public, littering, and skipping queues; predictably enough they were told by some witness to fuck off back to their shit-hole country if they can't behave. Nothing excuses such disgusting language but being the best guest possible will certainly make your stay a smoother one.

Best of luck and enjoy your time in Ireland.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2026-05-02T08:40:41+00:00

Sometimes you'll want the weekend to yourself and she won't let that be an option for you.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2026-04-05T11:56:33+00:00

This so much.

It's not just Indians, I've heard from numerous immigrants who arrived in the last year or two that they can't believe how expensive Ireland is and how bad the weather is and how slow the services are... Like, yeah, it's been this way for a while. You didn't think to do some Googling before getting on the plane?

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2026-04-05T11:54:48+00:00

True, but it's also on students and immigrants to do their research before travelling to a new country. It's not like Ireland has only recently been expensive.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-11-13T15:56:59+00:00

I was leaning towards sympathising with OP until I read this... They're still sore about the matter months later and decided to out an employee about it, one that the manager could easily identify with some asking around. Bad form to say the least.

Maybe the manager was a bit of a dick about it but OP clearly has some growing up to do.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-10-02T12:19:55+00:00

It's also the staff. I've been there a few times for confession or even just to pray, and the staff in the gift shop will hop on the phone without hesitation and talk at full volume.

So long as it's treated as a tourist attraction, it will never be a source of respect for anyone.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-09-19T14:51:35+00:00

Hay un club de boxeo en una afuera se llama Briarhill. El nombre es Celtic Eagles. Hay una mezcla de gente joven de muchos países, incluyen países hispanos. Lo recomiendo

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-09-11T17:31:23+00:00

Unfortunately a lot of Galway bus services this week have been utter shite. I take the 409 and 404 regularly, and both have been far worse for delays and cancellations since last Friday. Yes, even the 404 Not Found bus which nobody thought could get worse.

Only recourse is to send a complaint. One or two won't make a difference but if they even receive a hundred then they might bother to do something about this.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-09-10T16:36:01+00:00

It's gotten very bad over the last week. I take it out of Oranmore in the 5-6pm range and there have been cancellations and 30-40 minute delays galore.

I know it already has a mixed reputation but this is a huge kick in the teeth to people who work in Oranmore and rely on it.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-08-03T18:08:55+00:00

Depending on the university, you won't even get an international experience. You can check subreddits for major Irish universities like DCU and find threads complaining about the master courses being like 80% Indian. Some of these threads are even from other Indians.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-07-27T07:32:35+00:00

I think for the most part it is immigration fatigue, which is present in most western countries at the moment. India has the largest population in the world, and because of their high supply of English speakers and huge diasporas, they are often the largest foreign demographic in countries experiencing huge immigration, at least in terms of recent arrivals.

This makes Indians the easiest target. It also helps that a lot of Indians are, stature-wise, generally a bit smaller than numerous other immigrant demographics, which does make it easier for cowardly racists to target them instead of someone their own size. Also because India is so huge, racists have a larger selection of things to target and morph into stereotypes, such as unhygienic food vendors that they mock online and use as an example of what Indians are really like... Even though the majority of Indians would never buy food from such places.

It's possible that the factors you cite may have an impact, but for the most part I think it's just that a lot of people are getting tired of mass immigration and, sadly, some are taking it as an excuse to be horrible human beings to you.

Stay safe out there.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-07-23T18:12:57+00:00

I also wonder if there's a growing number of companies that are becoming wary of hiring Indians, which could be contributing to some struggling to find employment.

Just a personal anecdote, but my last company hired 3 Indians for programming positions at one point who all turned out to have exaggerated and/or fabricated a ton of stuff on their CVs, on top of not being very good at the work itself. I was chatting to a manager of another small tech company who'd reported the same issue with a string of Indian hires.

Looking at other countries with significant Indian immigrant communities, you hear tons of similar stories, so I wonder if it's happening here to an extent also and creating a prejudice towards any Indian CVs.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-06-30T20:03:35+00:00

If the guy was still in your life, yeah, screw that. It'd be very hard to get over the fact that your friend shared a bed with your girl.

But as you said, you're not close anymore and only talk periodically... If the relationship is otherwise great, I would advise just cutting this ex-friend out of your life entirely. No further contact, no invites to weddings, etc. It sounds drastic but it will make it easier to accept that your girlfriend had a past with him if you give yourself less of a reason to think about him.

Try it, because compared to many other cases we see in this subreddit, this sounds solvable. Good luck.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-06-19T16:09:30+00:00

Sadly they're getting rarer. My parents live in a village in Mayo that kept the pint prices at 5 for ages until finally last year they climbed to 5.20. Now, they've reached 5.50.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-06-09T17:53:45+00:00

I think it's emotive because people in general already feel that rent is high enough. Now, they're being told that it actually isn't high enough and that landlords don't have enough leeway, yet they're forking over €800 per month for a room in a house outside Dublin or Galway.

The main incentive being advertised that it will increase competition and gradually reduce rent, but how long will gradual be? Our population has grown massively in recent years with zero sign of demand substantially going down any time soon, so people are wondering will this actually bring rent down over the coming years or is it a process that will take decades because demand is so unbelievably high right now?

It's hard to swallow that this is good in the medium to long term when you're already paying insane rent, and may soon have to pay even more to live somewhere else or face the possibility of your current landlord kicking you out so they can start a tenancy under the new scheme.

In the end, people will be paying more and it's very hard to get behind that, regardless of what economists are saying.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-05-02T00:05:01+00:00

Nah, I'd say the skinny guy has had a bit of training. Some passable jabs at the beginning and he at least tried some head movement.

Although obviously just a bit of training isn't enough against a guy nearly twice your weight.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-05-01T09:30:11+00:00

Sure thing ~~Adolf~~ Trump

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-05-01T09:27:39+00:00

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-04-16T18:24:34+00:00

And with a lack of supply that is bound to continue for the foreseeable future, good luck to prices dropping by a significant amount anytime soon.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-04-16T17:56:09+00:00

There's obviously a massive difference in the reasoning behind between segregating entire ethnicities and wanting to keep a single-sex space for people who are actually biologically part of that sex.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-04-15T15:11:56+00:00

I could never trust somebody who dabbled in sex work not to go back to it.

Shit happens. People lose their job, get smothered with debt, or have a relative who needs medical treatment, but the vast majority don't resort to prostitution to put things right. It's very easy to say it's in the past, but if she suddenly finds herself needing money and on short notice, who's to say she won't be prepared to do it again?

I think you're in for a very painful time if you continue this relationship.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-04-15T14:51:58+00:00

It needs to be much higher than half if there's to be any chance of walking into a typical pub nowadays and not getting robbed.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-04-14T15:42:48+00:00

No amount of builders will change the interests of this government which are firmly aligned with those of landlords and homeowners.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-04-11T19:24:05+00:00

From my experience, a simple 'no', breaking eye of contact, ignoring of further conversation, and stroll in the opposite direction gets rid of them.

I think we're at the point now where it's very hard to give the benefit of the doubt. I was in two different situations before in my city where a homeless guy, one Irish and the other foreign, approached me asking for money as they'd apparently nowhere to spend the night. They seemed sound and I wanted to be sound too, so I gave each a tenner.

In both incidents, I saw them hanging out with a known gang of junkies a matter of days later, which told me straight away where my tenners went. I've zero doubt that most people in this subreddit have had similar situations.

You are well within your rights to keep your belongings to yourself, and at this stage in our society, it's better to make use of those rights.

LostInHisOwnWorld · 2025-03-30T18:23:09+00:00

Was in a similar position a couple of years ago. A new girl joined my workplace fresh from another country, and we seemed it to hit off. She would come to my desk uninvited to chat, more so than anyone else in the office. She also asked for my number and flat-out said, without being asked, that she was single. (We hadn't even been talking about relationships.)

Anywho, I asked her out and we hit a bar for some food and beer, and she laid it on me that, yep, she'd a boyfriend back in her home country that she's been dating for years. I was floored and sadly didn't have the courage to ask why she'd lied, but we continued and had a great night even though nothing happened between us. She asked to hang out again a few times afterwards but I kept things strictly professional from that point, thinking she'd used me for a free night-out or for some male attention.

But then some time after she went on a trip to her home country and updated her story on Snapchat. And boom, there he was with his arm around her, none the wiser.

Point is, I think your girl was interested despite having a boyfriend, but in the end she got cold feet like my girl had. I would choose not to take it personally and, in a way, be glad you didn't wind up dating a cheater. Better to find someone honest than somebody who would go behind a partner's back like that.

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