Quick , donate to his mansion fund ! !<| sep |> My order from launch at Best Buy literally arrived a few hours ago . <| sep |> It took me a while to like Janeway , but Voyager and DS 9 were the only two Treks I watched without missing a single ep . <| sep |> St . Patricks Day is an Irish holiday not based on celebration of berating the Irish or viewing them as inferior . It ' s supposed to be a day celebrating Catholicism coming to Ireland but has evolved into a celebration of all things Irish . It ' s literally celebrating the Irish , not qualifying them as inferior . I get that it ' s still a celebration of being Irish and not forgetting heritage , but in no way is it about being inferior . That is the part that I am getting at , and for the record , the Irish have become part of the general population and don ' t have their own culture they say others can ' t be a part of because they aren ' t Irish . They openly share their culture with everyone . And yes , holding onto the idea that people once thought you were inferior and holding that as part of your heritage is entirely a giant fuck off in the making . It gives you an excuse to be hateful when there is no reason to be hateful . I think what defines white American culture are the traditions that white people create within their own communities . However you just call that being a specific region . Not all black people share the same black culture that you want to attribute to being regional for some and for others a monolithic idea of what it means to be part of a culture . What I am saying is that you are deciding when it is minority culture and when it is regional and when it is white . If a town of people , who all happen to be white , create a tradition that blows up and becomes very popular in the US , would you say oh that ' s just American culture , or would you call that white culture since other groups had no hand in making it ? Or is it because others could participate in it that you would say it ' s American versus black or white ? Also , in terms of black culture , if most white Americans would not do it , why is there this massive push for whites to not touch black culture . If your assertion is that most wouldn ' t want to do it , why bar people from it , rather than letting them be apart of it ? Why not let those white Americans who don ' t know their own cultural background also participate in this created culture that has no background and was created in the US ? And if it was created in the US , why is it , again , not American Culture ? Your idea that it is regional for some and racial for another doesn ' t make any sense .