Croatian man killed in Ireland "for speaking Croatian"

[Insuperable]

I will hold you to that. If you manage to keep your word in five years time then congratulations.

How condescending... What makes you think I'll go to live somewhere else?

[Tooting Carmen]

How condescending... What makes you think I'll go to live somewhere else?

For the same reasons millions of others (including in no small measure Westerners themselves) do: money, professional experiences, a change of scenery...

[Dandelion]

Rusu is a common Romanian surname. I also used to have a Romanian co-worker named Sârbu, Mr 'Serbian'.

[Scarface F]

Depends on the Westerner. A Romanian ex-coworker got offended at me because she thought I saw her as Russian for saying 'Ilya' is a male Russian name. A Dutch female coworker working was named 'Ilya', a topic she herself joked about. Her (the Romanian woman's) surname is also means 'Russian' in Romanian to boot. But no, I know the difference between nationalities. The fact I understood half of what the Russian coworkers there were saying in the canteen didn't help neither.

But I always saw her as a Romanian woman. Just pre-emptively on her high horse.

I get where you're coming from, but I got lumped together with those weird donks not knowing anything about geography by that individual.

I don't think it applies to TA folks here, who are very cultured on average and interested about other nations.

[Insuperable]

For the same reasons millions of others (including in no small measure Westerners themselves) do: money, professional experiences, a change of scenery...

Lulz, lay off your high horse. It's still a small percentage of people who emigrate.

[Dandelion]

I don't think it applies to TA folks here, who are very cultured on average and interested about other nations.

Indeed, I would never expect that from people here. It was a great opportunity for this anecdote.

[Tooting Carmen]

I don't think it applies to TA folks here, who are very cultured on average and interested about other nations.

That is a crucial factor that has kept me here all these years: as exemplified e.g. by my Mongolia vs Burkina Faso thread, people here have at least a basic idea about even the most obscure places on Earth.

[Scarface F]

What is ironic is that this man was victim of hate crime and they shouted to him and his friend that they should speak English since "this is Ireland".

[Laredo]

I'd rather suck a dick than live in a Western first class country.

Lucky for you I'm circumcised.

[Tooting Carmen]

What is ironic is that this man was victim of hate crime and they shouted to him and his friend that they should speak English since "this is Ireland". Sad.

I was ridiculed here for arguing that English-language privilege is actually a much more universal problem than so-called White privilege, and this hate crime is a kind of perverse example of it.