| I didn't vote. What's so friggin' hard about just saying "other"?
I always felt that ethnic related holidays or observances had to do with one of two things - a sense of lack of empowerment, where you need reminders that your particular ethnic group actually HAS contributed to the human race in a valuable fashion and merits recognition - or from a sense of strong ethnic pride and kinship. Hence, we have Celtic Festivals and Italian American events - not because hailing from such ancestry means they need to be reminded and encouraged by it, but they're just so damned proud to be Irish or Italian.
I'm not either - not really. I don't feel especially bothered by the fact that I'm white, I don't need to be reminded that whites have been historically significant or beneficial to the human race. I don't need reminders that so and so was a white man. And when I see another white person, I don't have some kind of sense of kinship with them. I'm not a foreigner in a foreign land. I actually am more Irish/Scottish than anything else, but I really don't care much about it, so it's not as though I'd go to that Celtic thing in Calvert to swell with pride over my ancestry.
So why would I need one? I'd sooner celebrate a holiday for geeks and nerds.
Yeah. April Fool. |