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Why is it St. Patrick ' s day is so commercialized and St. George ' s day isn't? we l

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Well, St Patrick's is celebrated throughout the world and St George's isn't because of Irish Migration.

Also, people in Ireland get a day off for St Patricks.

No one is going to get a day off here for St Georges so it makes no sense to commercialise it.

The only reason why people bother to talk about St Georges today is because of White English insecurity about their identity and the Scots have St Andrews off
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Also, crucially, Irish people obviously drink like they don't want to live and we get to emulate that for a day, for cultural reasons.
Because the Irish hypes it up way too much...
Because St Patrick's Day is all about drinking and people like to drink.

Nothing happens on St George's Day. Ask people about what it entails and most people wouldn't have any idea. I only knew it was St George's Day today because of the little figure on Google.
Ireland is more popular internationally than England. It seems a significant portion of Americans claim to be Irish, but you don't see tons of "English Pubs" in Europe, except for where English tourists go in droves. I think I read somewhere that the number that claim to be Irish actually exceeds the number that could possibly be Irish, given the number of migrants there were. Not sure how true that is, though.

In England it feels as though it's strongly frowned upon to be proud of your heritage, if your heritage is English. If you're Welsh/Irish/Scottish then go ahead and tell us about how great Wales.Ireland/Scotland is, but woe betide anyone who wants to stick up for England! Needless to say, I think that's a load of rubbish - everyone should be allowed to demonstrate their pride for their country if they want to.
Isn't St. George's Day racist against those that willing flock to our country...
Original post by Silver Arrows
Isn't St. George's Day racist against those that willing flock to our country...

No it's just that nobody cares about it because we don't get a day off and there are no traditions associated with it. Stop trying to create some anti-English conspiracy it's pathetic. If there was zero immigration people would still not celebrate it.
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I think it's pretty much just the excuse to get legless in a racial stereotypical way. Not exactly a positive image is it?

One of the funniest things I ever saw was in a staunchly touristy part of Wales where there was an Irish themed pub with no Irish accent to be heard and they didn't serve Guinness because there was no call for it.
When I was in School St. George's day was the day, for all the White kids to be xenophobic and basically insult foreigners.

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Original post by Manitude
Ireland is more popular internationally than England. It seems a significant portion of Americans claim to be Irish, but you don't see tons of "English Pubs" in Europe, except for where English tourists go in droves. I think I read somewhere that the number that claim to be Irish actually exceeds the number that could possibly be Irish, given the number of migrants there were. Not sure how true that is, though.

In England it feels as though it's strongly frowned upon to be proud of your heritage, if your heritage is English. If you're Welsh/Irish/Scottish then go ahead and tell us about how great Wales.Ireland/Scotland is, but woe betide anyone who wants to stick up for England! Needless to say, I think that's a load of rubbish - everyone should be allowed to demonstrate their pride for their country if they want to.


Let's just have a quick glance at the Wikipedia pages...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_national_identity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_national_identity

Says it all really.
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Totally. Reminds me of a recent news story, where a journalist spent several days meticulously recording a 'centuries old Indian river festival' only to find out the manager of a local hotel had invented it twenty years previously to attract customers.
Because every single pub and bar in the Western hemisphere derives benefit from making a big deal of St Patrick's Day, and there is no comparable benefit to celebrating St George's Day.
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Because green stuff and Guinness and.... I'll fight ya
Probably because there's more immigrants into England / mixed people, than actual fully English people.
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One of the funniest things I ever saw was in a staunchly touristy part of Wales where there was an Irish themed pub with no Irish accent to be heard and they didn't serve Guinness because there was no call for it.

a pub that didn't have Guinness I have never seen that everywhere sells it.
Because we're not overly bothered about saint's in England, and as someone else said there's a kind of reservation about showing national pride sometimes in England, everywhere else in the UK celebrates their saints days, we used to celebrate St Andrews day at school.



But since it's also Shakespeare's birthday, I plan to watch Henry IV. :biggrin:
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Original post by stargirl63
Probably because there's more immigrants into England / mixed people, than actual fully English people.




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There is no need for racism I take offence to what you have said I am mixed raced and I was born in England. You are a very small minded person and you need a reality check we live in the 21st century and we are a multi cultural country so deal with it. It doesn't matter what a person's race, sexuality, or religion is we are all human.
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There is no need for racism I take offence to what you have said I am mixed raced and I was born in England. You are a very small minded person and you need a reality check we live in the 21st century and we are a multi cultural country so deal with it. It doesn't matter what a person's race, sexuality, or religion is we are all human.


lol I'm mixed race as well. :rolleyes:

In response to the thread, as there are less fully English people around, and more mixed people (many white people in England have some sort of European/Scottish/Irish mix to them) and more immigrants etc the idea of St George's Day is lost.

You have proven my point. We do live in 21st Century, Britain is full of different cultures, hence holidays like St Patrick's day is more pronounced than St George's day.

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