St. Patrick's Day

[*Nately120*]

I don't see how this is any different than that day during black history month where we all wear $4 Wal-Mart dashikis and eat fried chicken until we vomit (because that's TOTALLY what black people do, you guys!) or that day where we all dress up like Nazis and start fights, or blah blah blah.

I do have to say it is interesting how certain cultures are more acceptable to be lampooned than others. There was an iPad commercial (I think) where where the guy kept putting on a stereotypical French-are-totally-rude-maitredes accent. It's sort of the same with acting like you are a stupid Italian chef who is right off the boat. Oh, I likea my pasta and a-pizza!

But we do feel the need to NOT have commercials/characters these days that use the whole "Oh me rikke flied lice" Chinese stereotype or the old Amos 'n' Andy black dialect. I'm not sure you'll see an iPad commercial where someone pretends to be an Al Jolson-era black guy "Oh I donna know nuthin about dem ipad, missa!" Again, I don't care, but I do find it amusing that the 3 nationalities I happen to be (well, I'm just a dumb ol' American mutt really) are the ones that are so acceptably mocked.