coöpted culture holidays

[rone]

So St. Patrick's Day is when we pretend we care about Ireland by eating something nobody in Ireland eats, Cinco de Mayo is when we pretend we care about Mexico by drinking something nobody in Mexico drinks... what else is out there (not counting all the Pagan holidays the Christians swiped)?

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if youre in chicago:

[lara7.livejournal.com]

there's kasimir pulaski day, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Pulaski_Day
(which often falls on my birthday) in which you can pretend to care about Polish people.

Re: if youre in chicago:

[erikred.livejournal.com]

I'm a quarter Polish, which means I'm entitled to all the kielbasa I can eat yet still only suffer a quarter the cholesterol.

I guess this makes me a one-and-a-quarter-foot pole.