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Plastic Paddy alert !

Kristof Van Hoeven 2 years ago

My friend who has Irish parents and lives in a city with a big Irish roman catholic community (Manchester, England) went to Boston on her holiday. While there she visited an Irish themed pub and had nothing but a lot of attitude directed at her because she was English. (Being called a 'Tan' etc) This is what annoys me about some of the plastic paddies in America - they simplify everything and have a rose-tinted idea of the 'homeland' and it's relationship to the 'big evil' that's so divorced from reality.

AddictofFilm 3 years ago
It's not so much a nationality but an ethnic group.  Who uses the term "Plastic Paddy"   It's an ethnic slur.  Bigotry nothing we aren't used to and the Irish diaspora is use to that doesn't matter if you are born and raised in Ireland and then immigrated or you are born into an Irish family somewhere else.
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.Christy Dolan 2 years ago

Stop using words that you do not understand.

Btw, the term was coined by the Irish Themselves who were sick to the teeth with the carry on of the diaspora

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FYI I tried searching for plastic paddy videos and most everything I found was New York Bronx/Brooklyn trashy, vulgar and profane. Mostly young women getting drunk.
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