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Is st patricks day offensive ?
I mean depicting irish people as drunks and alcoholics really has no place in modern day America does it?
2 Answers
- CrustyCurmudgeonLv 71 month ago
Most celebrants join with the Irish and become Irish for the day. I haven't seen the Irish as irresponsible drunks, but as people having a good time. I am concerned that the date of St. Patrick's is the day he died, not the day he was born or elevated to sainthood.
- Anonymous1 month ago
No, and that's not how it depicts Irish people because St. Patrick's Day is a celebration, not an offensive depiction of the Irish as alcoholics. Does Mardi Gras offensively depict Catholics as bead-loving exhibitionists? No. Does the Fourth of July offensively depict Americans as alcoholic pyromaniacs? No. Likewise, St. Patrick's Day doesn't depict the Irish as alcoholics.
Source(s): You are taking St. Patrick's Day, which is an out of the ordinary event, and suggesting that how Americans celebrate it is somehow an offensive depiction of how Irish people ordinarily are, which is ridiculous. At most, it's a depiction of how Irish people ordinarily celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and if so, it's an inoffensive depiction since, one, it's Irish-Americans (there being 40 million Irish-Americans in the US) who lead the charge celebrating it, areas with higher Irish-American populations being where it's celebrated the most, and, two, how Americans celebrate it is very much like how the Irish celebrate it, making it a tribute, not a dig, and one that doesn't culturally appropriate since its celebration in America is a contribution made by the massive wave of Irish immigrants in the mid-1800s to America's cultural melting pot and reflects America's own quite significant Irish heritage.
