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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[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

Oktoberfest?
The Ides of March?

The former is when we celebrate a harvest we're no longer participating in by drinking American beer. I think the latter is just a drinking holiday for Classics nerds, where they celebrate the liberation of Rome from the man who liberated it from democracy. Or is that republicanism? Plutocracy? Whatever.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Definitely Oktoberfest. I don't know anyone who celebrates the Ides of March other than with light paranoia and dread, and, really, that happens every day these days.