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Yet another TV news show apologizes for mocking Mexicans. Sure, Octoberfest and St Patrick's Day are also drinking occasions but they don't mock the culture.
Please show examples where new anchors act like drunk Irishmen... or put on funny German accents for Oktoberfest.
Nobody would dare make fun of Germans. You aware of what those crazies did back in the 20th? Uh-uh. Drunk Irishmen? No need to dress up for that, just walk through downtown Boston.
Yet another TV news show apologizes for mocking Mexicans. Sure, Octoberfest and St Patrick's Day are also drinking occasions but they don't mock the culture.
In this case I don't think they are bigots--just idiots.
Nobody would dare make fun of Germans. You aware of what those crazies did back in the 20th? Uh-uh. Drunk Irishmen? No need to dress up for that, just walk through downtown Boston.
The topic is news anchors mocking a culture, not whether there are drunks in Boston.
The problem with forcing the national holidays of other countries down the throats of Americans is that most Americans really don't care one way or the other about the Battle of Puebla -- just like Americans don't really celebrate Mardi Gras with wild drunken orgies and women's bare breasts because they give a hoot about Lent or religion.
How many Americans are really going to give Cinco de Mayo the reverence it might be given in the state of Puebla? And why would we really care that the French were defeated in that battle? That is completely meaningless to us --- France was our ally, why should we cheer the French being beaten?
Yet another TV news show apologizes for mocking Mexicans. Sure, Octoberfest and St Patrick's Day are also drinking occasions but they don't mock the culture.
I have no idea how to respond to someone who doesn't recognize how American manifestations of Oktoberfest and especially St. Patrick's Day mock the respective cultures. The Irish call Irish-Americans and St. Patrick's Day revelers of any ethnic stripe "plastic Paddies" for a reason, and it's not meant flatteringly or in jest. Talk to enough Irish long enough and you'll learn there is a strong undercurrent of resentment in Ireland toward Americans in large part precisely because of the superficial and frequently cartoonish way Irish culture and heritage is presented here, often unfortunately by those who profess to be of Irish descent.
Cultural appropriation is a fact of life in a multi-ethnic society, and for better or worse it will often take on forms that nationals of the culture in question will barely recognize as their own. "Cinco de Drinko" seems a perfectly appropriate monicker for the "holiday" in question not because it reflects anything about the purported culture of origin, but because it says plenty about the culture that has adapted it to its own purposes. And I'll continue to have a margarita on Cinco de Drinko, Tullamore Dew on St. Paddy's day, and a Festbier during Oktoberfest because it's an excuse to cut loose a few days out of the year with my fellow insensitive cultural appropriators.
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