Happy Coon-Up The Irish Day
Today is America's last true accepted and encouraged celebration of an ethnic stereotype.
It's St. Patrick's Day, and Americans will be "Irish for a Day" by binge drinking, puking, and making general jerks of themselves.
I doubt this is what St. Patrick had in mind when he brought Christianity to Ireland.
The Irish have a fine legacy in civics, the arts, culture, etc., yet the average non-Irish idiot uses the day to kill their brain cells.
Enough already. It's a religious holiday. If you want to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, say a prayer for world peace or something, or at the very least buy a U2 album and forgive African debt.
Why is it that Americans allow the ethnic stereotype of a drunken Irishman to persist? In a land of political correctness, how is this still encouraged and celebrated?
Would New York allow a parade where white people wear blackface during Black History Month? I doubt it.
Morons.
Related sites:
Other Looking At Things
St. Patrick's Day
The History Channel on St. Patrick's Day
What Dublin is doing.
What's going on in Chicago.
Paul Katcher agrees (sort of).
Ogre on St. Patrick's Day
posted by Nominal Me | Thursday, March 17, 2005
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4 Comments:
"The Irish have a fine legacy in civics, the arts, culture, etc., yet the average non-Irish idiot uses the day to kill their brain cells."
I'm confused with where your beef lies. Irish people invented this holiday. Irish people organize events around this day (and with those events comes booze). Irish people make a lot of money on this day, just go to any Irish pub.
Your beef should be with the Irish who let their holiday get co-opted so they could make a fast buck.
And for the record if you want to see a celebration of ethnic stereotypes you can look no further to the African-American day parade in Harlem.
"Would New York allow a parade where white people wear blackface during Black History Month? I doubt it."
Yes it did. Yeah they got fired but they received back pay.
http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_335065909.html
"Why is it that Americans allow the ethnic stereotype of a drunken Irishman to persist? In a land of political correctness, how is this still encouraged and celebrated?"
For the same reason Robert DeNiro made a fortune playing mafia guys.
For the same reason millions of people (black and white) buy rap albums in where the rappers repeatedly use the N-word.
For the same reason there's a team called the REDSKINS.
A good friend of mine once said that MONEY was the defacto religion in this country. That's your reason in a nutshell.
I agree this holiday has become distorted by greedy capitalists.
Irish people celebrate the holiday differently. Irish in Michigan may not approve but the Irish in NYC make a lot of money off of this day.
People have to take responsibility for themselves.
I agree with a lot of what was said here, money does come into play here. There is an entire Irish-American industry of pubs/bars that feeds into these things, but I can't really get too mad at them. It's the "Irish for a day" people that drive me nuts.
The thing is, many other ethnic stereotypes used to make money, but now they are shunned. Why does this particular one have staying power?
I just did, and I'm half Irish.
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