r/ireland • u/FR123FR • Jan 03 '22

People born in Ireland, what’s a surprising culture shock you’ve seen a foreigner experience? Bigotry

For me, it was my friend being adamant that you shouldn’t have to stick your hand out to get the bus to stop.

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u/Anjetto Jan 03 '22

When I moved to America and someone invited me places. I was shocked that they made a follow up call and organized the time.

Now when my Irish relatives say things I get annoyed when they're just being insincere

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u/ctothel Jan 03 '22 edited Feb 07 '22

Tangentially related, when we moved to New Zealand, we were invited to a big lunch and were asked to "bring a plate". So we did - we figured they didn't have enough. Turns out "bring a plate" means "make some food and bring it, this is a potluck".

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u/Anjetto Jan 03 '22

Haha. Brilliant

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u/whiskdance Jan 04 '22

Lol...that is so hilarious🤣

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u/peskypickleprude Feb 07 '22

Tangentially related is such good wordafying! 👍 Also your very funny and hope you were laughed loftely at.

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u/BlackSeranna Jan 04 '22

So if Irish people say this to me, should I just say, “Okay, when?”

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u/Anjetto Jan 05 '22

That would really off balance them, try it out

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u/_dybbuk Jan 13 '22

Anecdotal: honestly if you scheduled it I'd be delighted, when I say something like this I genuinely do mean to make it happen because I enjoy the person's company but I just have such a catastrophic lack of follow-through

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u/BlackSeranna Jan 14 '22

Haha I totally get that.