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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 11, 2017, 09:04:09 pm ---Hear, hear. I'm not Italian but was married to one and have an Italian last name. Didn't Columbus sail under the Spanish flag, anyway?
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In my years in Philadelphia I've seen the Columbus Day Parade shrink. It used to close all of South Broad Street. Now it's just down in South Philadelphia, which still has a number of Italian neighborhoods. It's as though it's become an Italian thing.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 11, 2017, 10:38:34 pm ---In my years in Philadelphia I've seen the Columbus Day Parade shrink. It used to close all of South Broad Street. Now it's just down in South Philadelphia, which still has a number of Italian neighborhoods. It's as though it's become an Italian thing.
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Which seems fine. In Minnesota they have a holiday called St. Urho's Day. It's not a legal holiday, but it kind of competes with St. Patrick's Day. It commemorates some Scandinavian guy, and not being Scandinavian I can't get too into it. It's not widely celebrated, anyway -- it's not like everybody runs out and eats lutefisk and drinks Aquavit on SUD.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 12, 2017, 02:39:31 pm ---Which seems fine. In Minnesota they have a holiday called St. Urho's Day. It's not a legal holiday, but it kind of competes with St. Patrick's Day. It commemorates some Scandinavian guy, and not being Scandinavian I can't get too into it. It's not widely celebrated, anyway -- it's not like everybody runs out and eats lutefisk and drinks Aquavit on SUD.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Urho
Apparently St. Urho's Day has something in common with International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
;D
CellarDweller:
I'm hearing a lot of Italians say that it's "their day" to celebrate their heritage.
I want to say that if it were true, it would be "Italian" day, not Columbus Day.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on October 12, 2017, 07:03:45 pm ---I'm hearing a lot of Italians say that it's "their day" to celebrate their heritage.
I want to say that if it were true, it would be "Italian" day, not Columbus Day.
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There is a separate festival for that here. It centers in and around our famous Italian Market.
(Which seems to be rapidly becoming more Asian than Italian.)
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