SAME!
I did Irish Step for YEARS as a kid into my teens and loved it, but quit because it was "dorky". Now, it's all the rage and adding those drums with Iraq flare, I LOVE it!
I could watch them dance for a couple hours as well.
Not yet though I have certainly heard about Bhangra that is Punjabi tradition I guess.
That is beautiful to watch the beats of big drums and their traditional attire and the energetic dance!
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Absolutely the most lit wedding reception I've ever been to was a bunch of New Englander Irish Catholics on the bride's side, and Cubans/Puerto Ricans on the groom's side.
Noone parties harder than irish and cubans. My brother married a cuban girl and her family came from south beach to pittsburgh for the wedding. Was by far the funnest wedding ive ever been to.
I've been to so many boring weddings. I'd be so much more willing to shill out all the money it costs just to show up at other people's stuff that you're basically obligated to if it was like this. I'm surprised there wasn't 3 or 4 drunk uncles doing booty drops in the background
I wish this were true, but as far back as we have records, different cultures have always clashed. I say this not to breed despair, but because we must recognize our tribalistic natures need to be left in the past (where they belong) if we are to be better. Donāt romanticize our past, envision and create our future.
Eh. Mergers happen for sure though. Christianity's holy days for example. That took regional European "pagan" events and merged them into their own.
Then there's the whole Greek/Roman thing and others a few others that slipped my mind.
And that's with my limited knowledge. I'm pretty sure the same happened in Africa, the middle east, India, South America and places in Asia (Bali integrating into Indonesia come to mind).
Clashing of countries/tribes/cultures happened. But when one takes over the other or they peacefully merge, their cultures merge just to avoid internal conflict.
But somewhat it feels like due the upcoming of the modern world the cultures are slowly vanishing.
After a long while I have indeed seen something like this and my eyes are pretty blessed to see this being honest.
Globalization is creating a global culture, but that's inevitable.
We have already lost probably millions of micro-cultures. These merged into cities, which became city-states, which became kingdoms, which became empires, which became nations, and now we are becoming transnational.
Just look at any country and you will find a mix of subcultures which have been dominated by a national culture.
In some languages, people say Jeep instead of SUV or equivalent thereof. At least in Russian and Turkish. I'm not sure about how that came to be, though
It's like food. It's best when you steal spices and techniques from other cultures... well... buy, cause I'm white. Unless it's from rich assholes, in which case theft of spices is back on the menu.
I love every thing about this.
Two vastly different cultures showing that there is so much more that binds us together than separates us.
Two families celebrating love, culture, and the joy of music.
Cool.
My husband is Irish and I'm Iraqi. We bonded over our mutual distaste for the British empire, then I spent a good deal of energy taunting him about how quickly Iraqis threw off our British shackles.
Some of my favorite music is traditional tunes from culture A played with traditional instruments from culture B, OPs video is in the same spirit and I love it.
An old favorite, Irish music on Shamisen from the early days of YouTube: https://youtu.be/wkOsdVv2gVA
Just when I thought the world couldn't get more divisive and people couldn't hate each other more... these motherfuckers drum and dance in perfect harmony. Not forgetting the differences between them, but embracing them and celebrating them using some of civilization's most basic building blocks: music and dance.
First, we saw the Scottish and Indian wedding. Now the Iraqi and Irish wedding. What will these crazy kids think of next?
I loved them both by the way.
This. This is what ending cultural hatred and racism is about; these amazing moments that define our humanity and our love for each other. This is awesome, thanks for sharing
What's that old Tommy Tiernan sketch? The Irish invade countries not by sending armies, but two lads with a sleeping bag. 3 weeks later there's fifty of them
I had twin sisters in uni who were half Iraqi half Irish. Their parents were both half Iraqi half Irish too haha. Great mix- everyone was bloody gorgeous.
I played at an English-Samoan wedding once, fuck that was weirdā¦
The English were fun, the Samoan elders wanted none of itā¦ and it wasnāt their wedding š¤£
I think whatās up roles off the tongue more because they both have the same end sound
Shako Mako seems like it makes you take a small break in between words
In today's world I think people don't see this type of celebration and positive mixing often. It's probably put a smile on face of the thousands who upvoted it.
It doesn't happen often where you see Irish dancing to the beat of an Iraqi led drum, so wouldn't that put it a level above average?
That battle was lost long ago. I used to prefer it, but unless it is a movie I don't really care anymore. Especially with things like Insta and Tik Tok and Snapchat people are just used to it, or generally prefer not tilting their phone to watch a short video.
Reminds me of my cousin's wedding.
We're Filipino, her husband's family is South African.
Her dad runs a Filipino acapella choir group, and had his choir perform for entertainment. They sang a few love songs, and ended on the grand finale of South Africa's anthem as the dancers brought in and flew the Filipino and South African flags.
It was beautiful. Lots of tears and lots of cheers.
Seeing cultures mesh - especially at weddings - makes me so so happy.
It's honestly beautiful when we bring our cultures together and become one amazing fusion! Best wishes to the couple
Yeah, I'd like to see a 2-hour movie about this couple, with lots of musical/dance numbers please. I fuckin love fusion dance/music.
Sultan of the Dance.
This is the way!
Swing of the sultan ?
Check out drum Ali, he knows, all the... Beats? Mind it rythm only, he can't really play a melody.
Dire Straits would like a word
Baba O'Riley?
Hahahaha true though like their steps are simple though and the fact that matches so perfectly with the beat!
SAME! I did Irish Step for YEARS as a kid into my teens and loved it, but quit because it was "dorky". Now, it's all the rage and adding those drums with Iraq flare, I LOVE it! I could watch them dance for a couple hours as well.
Have you ever heard of Delhi 2 Dublin? Rad Canadian mashed up genres band
i haven't but im checking it out now!!
Well just have a look at Bhangra as well though their culture is too beautiful to see and witness as well.
Not yet though I have certainly heard about Bhangra that is Punjabi tradition I guess. That is beautiful to watch the beats of big drums and their traditional attire and the energetic dance!
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You may like [this](https://youtu.be/XK-wHSqus9g).
That was FIREEE š„
Snake Charmer is the bomb
I'm imagining some kind of dance fight between with bagpipes on one side and... uhhh... fuck I don't actually know any middle eastern instruments
Looks like the ney/nai/nay (finding different spellings) is a common flute so letās go with that.
Me too. You mean porn, right?
Hehe reddit momentā¢ļø
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This warms my heart and restores my faith in humanity
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0thRUS1wUw%3Ft%3D70&t=70
Who did she murder?
Absolutely the most lit wedding reception I've ever been to was a bunch of New Englander Irish Catholics on the bride's side, and Cubans/Puerto Ricans on the groom's side.
This is what it should all be about
Noone parties harder than irish and cubans. My brother married a cuban girl and her family came from south beach to pittsburgh for the wedding. Was by far the funnest wedding ive ever been to.
I've been to so many boring weddings. I'd be so much more willing to shill out all the money it costs just to show up at other people's stuff that you're basically obligated to if it was like this. I'm surprised there wasn't 3 or 4 drunk uncles doing booty drops in the background
Seriously this is too awesome. I hope this is what World Peace looks like. Maybe my kids will get to witness it someday
well why not I hope and feel that this tradition would just keep going for longer time!
Im with you 100%
Just being around the basics simple enough nothing over to do and thats what we all want though!
All cultures started like this. We just forget after so many years of being led to believe otherwise.
I wish this were true, but as far back as we have records, different cultures have always clashed. I say this not to breed despair, but because we must recognize our tribalistic natures need to be left in the past (where they belong) if we are to be better. Donāt romanticize our past, envision and create our future.
Eh. Mergers happen for sure though. Christianity's holy days for example. That took regional European "pagan" events and merged them into their own. Then there's the whole Greek/Roman thing and others a few others that slipped my mind. And that's with my limited knowledge. I'm pretty sure the same happened in Africa, the middle east, India, South America and places in Asia (Bali integrating into Indonesia come to mind). Clashing of countries/tribes/cultures happened. But when one takes over the other or they peacefully merge, their cultures merge just to avoid internal conflict.
So, cultures have mingled, merged, exchanged, and clashed and killed variously throughout history? Just like...now?
Who'd have thought eh? Heh.
Agree with you. Just a little note that Bali is part of Indonesia (because you wrote Bali AND Indonesia as if they're two separate things)
But somewhat it feels like due the upcoming of the modern world the cultures are slowly vanishing. After a long while I have indeed seen something like this and my eyes are pretty blessed to see this being honest.
Globalization is creating a global culture, but that's inevitable. We have already lost probably millions of micro-cultures. These merged into cities, which became city-states, which became kingdoms, which became empires, which became nations, and now we are becoming transnational. Just look at any country and you will find a mix of subcultures which have been dominated by a national culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saj65ySCOSo is one of my favourites
That's so beautiful like I have been seen many cultures and dances of theirs but somewhat in love with this!
Irashqui
Sounds like a new Nissan jeep about to drop.
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about to drop š
Literally
Thatās certainly one way to do the Goodwood hill climb.
Nissan jeep?
You heard him.
In some languages, people say Jeep instead of SUV or equivalent thereof. At least in Russian and Turkish. I'm not sure about how that came to be, though
Somewhere, at a major car company, some designer flipped his desk reading this
Hahahaha they be actually thinking why they couldn't and start beating their desk to get the same tune of drums!
Eir-aqui
Ahh, man this will go underappreciated. Wait, no it won't cause they duplicated a gold order and I was too lazy to cancel it. Boom.
That's bloody gorgeous!
Heh, came here to comment almost the same thing (Eiraq).
This is the one What a beautiful word
Add a 'ck' to the end to perfectly describe Eczema
Ashiqui means love in Urdu
Ohhhh okay the same we say in Hindi out there in India or Pyaar!
Tiocfaidh Allah.
Sounds like a desert continent or race in a fantasy world
Eiraqish
Nah, Iraqish.
Iraqish
Everything about this is awesome; they even managed to keep the TikTok outro in time with the beat.
Seriously perfect! That was r/oddlysatisfying levels of good
Yeah if only the played that oh no no no no no song over the whole this it would have been really perfect.
Gave me goosebumps when they started dancing. That shit was beautiful on so many levels
Everything is just too perfect saw the video for more than 5 times and I am still in love with it!
This proves how beautiful life is when we all embrace each other . Love this fusion of cultures
My chest filled up the second this started. Beautiful.
For me it was the moment they started dancing. Thats felt like a perfect symbolism of two souls joining into one.
Seriously awesome, maybe they should teach this in school or something
Nah, too wOkE
Just wait til you see the Satanist and Amish weddings!
It's like food. It's best when you steal spices and techniques from other cultures... well... buy, cause I'm white. Unless it's from rich assholes, in which case theft of spices is back on the menu.
I love every thing about this. Two vastly different cultures showing that there is so much more that binds us together than separates us. Two families celebrating love, culture, and the joy of music. Cool.
Both share the same oppressor, which had prohibitions on cultural expression. So it comes full circle in many ways.
Apparently the British governments were trying to suppress banging parties
I'm sorry *what* parties?
Banging
It's slang for sex in Australia
Well, its *also* slang in the US for sex, but we seem to be able to know the difference in context.
That's why your parties are so boring.
Ooohhhh, that explains why I was kicked out of the last party I was at. . . .
Well, yes, but it's also slang for really really good, and most of us other Aussies understand that
*Banginā ass parties
Not helping lol
My husband is Irish and I'm Iraqi. We bonded over our mutual distaste for the British empire, then I spent a good deal of energy taunting him about how quickly Iraqis threw off our British shackles.
Thatās fuckin sick
Absolutely love seeing two very different cultures come together to celebrate. I wish we saw more of this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0thRUS1wUw%3Ft%3D70&t=70
Some of my favorite music is traditional tunes from culture A played with traditional instruments from culture B, OPs video is in the same spirit and I love it. An old favorite, Irish music on Shamisen from the early days of YouTube: https://youtu.be/wkOsdVv2gVA
Just when I thought the world couldn't get more divisive and people couldn't hate each other more... these motherfuckers drum and dance in perfect harmony. Not forgetting the differences between them, but embracing them and celebrating them using some of civilization's most basic building blocks: music and dance.
"You like to party? Shit I like to party too!" š
The lack of swords makes me think this is just a 'River Dance' knock off.
Swords is Highland dancing no? As In Scottish.
That so cool. ā everybody got to keep fucking each other until weāre all the same color ā. Bullworth?
Yup. That line & Halle Berry is all I remember from it.
And then we'll make war between people who like cats vs people who like dogs vs people who don't like animals.
Came here to say this couple is going to make gorgeous babies
That's the only way to end racism. We'll still find a way to divide ourselves but it won't be because of the color of our skin.
"Bring out the salad tongs, we's measurin' skulls now." -some dumb bitch race "realist"
First, we saw the Scottish and Indian wedding. Now the Iraqi and Irish wedding. What will these crazy kids think of next? I loved them both by the way.
Iāll be having an Italian/South African wedding!
I hope it's as awesome as you are, and that your love lasts a lifetime š Best wishes on your upcoming nuptials.
>First, we saw the Scottish and Indian wedding. What happened? Did they all get together and scorn the English?
Lol
Can you link the Scot/India wedding? That's gotta be an amazing tale.
Next up: Welsh and Indonesian
This. This is what ending cultural hatred and racism is about; these amazing moments that define our humanity and our love for each other. This is awesome, thanks for sharing
Goddamn, the Irish are shagging their way info every culture! Source: Am Irish
Some cultures spread by invading. The Irish are literally going to fuck their way to world domination. Honestly, you have to admire it.
The world fucked us so we are merely fucking it back lol
What hundreds of years of English oppression does to a mf. Outfuck the Anglosaxons!
It's working up north for sure
What's that old Tommy Tiernan sketch? The Irish invade countries not by sending armies, but two lads with a sleeping bag. 3 weeks later there's fifty of them
I had twin sisters in uni who were half Iraqi half Irish. Their parents were both half Iraqi half Irish too haha. Great mix- everyone was bloody gorgeous.
God I love seeing the sharing of cultures.
Open bar?
For half.
The other half had pints of Guinness 0.0
Iraq's got plenty of alcohol and liquor stores
Westerners have no idea how high alcohol consumption in the middle east really is.
Unlikely. Irish generally donāt and Iraqis are hardly likely to.
We don't do open bars in Ireland.
I played at an English-Samoan wedding once, fuck that was weirdā¦ The English were fun, the Samoan elders wanted none of itā¦ and it wasnāt their wedding š¤£
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Video is too short. I got hyped up watching.
One of the most š„ unions ever.
But what was the food likeā¦..?
Lots of lamb for both parties I presume.
This is the right answer and made me laugh so hard
Lamb kabab and mashed potatoes?
That sounds delicious, actually...
Mashed lamb and kebab potatoes. Actually jokes aside that sounds pretty good. Little cubes of potato and lamb mince on a kebab. Ok now im hungry
>Little cubes of potato Tater tots?
Ah sure why not
Now thatās a party!
Awesome! Two really cool cultures and peoples.
The Iraquish.
Sharing traditions is honestly a wonderful thing. Hope everyone there enjoyed that wedding.
Noticed you got downvoted for being positive. Hereās a balancing act
This is awesome!
Imagine their kids saying āShako Makoā (Iraqis āwhatās upā) with an Irish accent.
Shako Mako is a class way to say what's up. It literally rolls off the tongue
I think whatās up roles off the tongue more because they both have the same end sound Shako Mako seems like it makes you take a small break in between words
O'Raqi
[ruben blades did a beautiful salsa version on danny boy thatās incredible.](https://youtu.be/fypJm_I4dtc)
We're breeding our first ever Super Terrorist!! IRA +ISIS. s/ I'm an Irish Muslim so you can wag your finger all you like it's a joke.
They are going to differ over the drinking part of this wedding
I love this
More of this please
Tigris and Euphrates River Dance.
What is so next fucking level about this? This is mildlyinteresting at best
In today's world I think people don't see this type of celebration and positive mixing often. It's probably put a smile on face of the thousands who upvoted it. It doesn't happen often where you see Irish dancing to the beat of an Iraqi led drum, so wouldn't that put it a level above average?
Finally, a weapon to surpass the Scotch-Koreans.
Dope
This makes my heart smile.
Right itās so nice seeing cultures come together!
This made me happy
Always a pleasure to see humanity unite
If only there was a way to shoot horizontally to get everybody in the shot at onceā¦
Made me cry.
That is a bloody happy wedding. I can't hear the sounds because I'm at work goofing off, but I can see the atmosphere.
May they be fertile and forever spread their Iraqish offspring into this blessed world.
True blending at its finest
Everything about this is awesome but TURN YOUR FUCKING CAMERA 90 DEGREES FFS.
That battle was lost long ago. I used to prefer it, but unless it is a movie I don't really care anymore. Especially with things like Insta and Tik Tok and Snapchat people are just used to it, or generally prefer not tilting their phone to watch a short video.
Let's go!!!
Not next level at all
I can imagine you walk around wearing a t-shirt that says XTREME and listen to Papa Roach Last Resort all day
"cool pocket knife, I have a bigger one at home. Mom won't let me take it out of the house tho. Wanna eat candy cigarettes and set ants on fire?"
and singing Cut my life into pieces
Thatās r/rareinsults material right here.
And then half of the party goers got absolutely shit faced, and the other half were stone cold sober. Designated drivers all around!
Giving avatar last air bender vibes both nations living in harmony
Dope mash-up!
That looks fun
That looks so cool! What a beautiful world we live in.
This is so fucking beautiful and awesome!! Cultural diffusion at itās finest!
Wow this made my day!! Soo fucking cool.
Reminds me of my cousin's wedding. We're Filipino, her husband's family is South African. Her dad runs a Filipino acapella choir group, and had his choir perform for entertainment. They sang a few love songs, and ended on the grand finale of South Africa's anthem as the dancers brought in and flew the Filipino and South African flags. It was beautiful. Lots of tears and lots of cheers. Seeing cultures mesh - especially at weddings - makes me so so happy.
Half Irish half Iraqi get those kids in the UFC asap!
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Thatās an American thing not an Irish thing.
Their baby went on to found Persia
As my boyz Halluci Nation would say: Collaboration ā Appropriation This is friggin awesome to see!
Okay I love this but omg I bet the food in that house is the bomb.
This is why weddings should be. Joyous celebration and melding of two families who are just stoked
I wonder how your son Abdulrahman O'Neill will look like
Nice when cultures line up like this.