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In response to "it's weird to me that it has turned into a US national holiday. -- nm" by Will Ye Go, Loosi, Go?

Despite the perverse way it gets exploited, I still see St. Patrick's Day as a sort of ethnic pride holiday

Posted by con_carne Mar 17 '09, 07:56

I think it seems like a national holiday because such a large amount of US citizens are at least partly of Irish descent.

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