Italian Heritage Month - Page 3

Love to Run · ‎03-22-2012

@amyb wrote:
@walkingal wrote:
@amyb wrote:
@CAPMLP wrote:
I'm not sure why QVC is celebrating October as Spanish Heritage month.
October has always been considered Italian Heritage Month.

The heritage month is in October to coincide with Columbus Day — the national holiday celebrated on the second Monday of the month. Italian-American Heritage Month celebrates the distinguished cultural contributions of Americans with Italian lineage.
From the internet:

Columbus Day 2023 in The United States:

Columbus Day, which is on the second Monday of October, celebrates Christopher Columbus' arrival to the Americas on October 12, 1492. This is an important date in many Italian-American communities; it is controversial in some Native American communities.

Is Columbus Day a Public Holiday?
Columbus Day 2023 is a state legal holiday in Tennessee, a state holiday in 22 states, and a federal holiday in 28 states.

Still Columbus Day to me.

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@amyb It will always be Columbus Day to me too. Where I live, it's still a Federal holiday. The only entity that refers to Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples' Day is the county library.

I don't mind the various heritage months as long as all of them are included. If you're going to celebrate one, celebrate all of them.
@walkingal So funny you mention the library...I was in my library the other day and they had a sign up telling us they'd be closed Monday: "Closed Oct 9 for Indigenous People's Day/Columbus Day" I thought 🙄, now Columbus must take a step back. My library is very.....pc, woke. Whatever. It's all so exhausting. Back in the day, we always "assimilated" to be Americans, while still celebrating the various cultures that came here too. We even joked about stereotypes with each other and laughed also at our own cultural stereotypes. Among the actual people in my life we all still do.
It was all good. All meant in a good way, not to separate us from being American, just celebrating each culture also.

If anything "they've" divided us more these days. Intentional.
And changing things like "Washington Redskins" to whatever stupid thing they are now. I heard that some chief from a tribe was insulted they took away the name Redskins, which was an honor not a slight, as many things like this were. Often the actual, "supposed" "offended" are the ones that it doesn't bother at all...."bothered" only the polical forces.

Just my thoughts, everyone has a different opinion and everything is contentious lately...not looking to debate it here.

@amyb I'm sure you believe that joking about stereotypes and using racial slurs as team names is a whole lotta fun, but many people find it offensive despite what "some chief from a tribe" said. I wish that all that assimilation could have prevented colonization, decimation, forced boarding schools, slavery, Jim Crow, internment camps, redlining, and so on and on. But alas here we are, forced to acknowledge past wrongs and view other perspectives.

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Allthingsgirly67 · ‎03-09-2010

Just to add on the Indigenous people debate with school mascots. I live on Long Island and it’s been quite a debate. I think it is a mistake to erase the mascots because your essentially erasing their place in history and it’s seen in a positive brave way. If you do away with it I feel they will fall by the wayside. I am not politically correct.

Mersha · ‎03-10-2010

Changing the team name from the Washington Redskins to the Washington Commanders was way, way overdue.

Call it "woke" ( which means different things to people) or politically correct the name was offensive.

I am happy our local team changed the name.

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Qvcmeow · ‎08-13-2020

If you unintentionally insulted someone, and that person told you they were insulted, would you say, "I didn't mean to insult you, but I've said this thing all my life, always, so I'm going to continue saying it in your presence?"