The local bartenders love them. And on, and on, and on. Or, you can always move up here to Milwaukee, where we already know how to have an ethnic good time. We're not buying it up here. Neither are ethnic celebrations the measuring stick for this issue.
Ethnic celebrations are of course a step in the right direction.
Let me quote something from my article that you take issue with. Unfortunately for those of us with Northern European Ancestry, we are not only discouraged from celebrating our heritage but are labeled as racists at the drop of a hat for doing so. My article has been public not even 24 hours and already there is someone using my article to illustrate how racist our organization is. This would seem to contradict your comments somewhat I would think. The fact is we are very often labeled as racist when we have pride in our Northern European ancestry.