主题：March 17 Saint Patrick Day -- 唵啊吽

Please celebrate Saint Patrick Day. March 17 is Saint Patrick day. Saint Patrick is Irish patron Saint and Saint Patrick day is Ireland’s National Day. Please wearing in green, eat green, joint the Saint Patrick parade, have a feast or drink a lot of bear, just for celebrating Saint Patrick Day.

Last Saturday, in downtown Shanghai, people got together to have a magnificent Saint Patrick Parade. Yes, you don’t need to be Catholic to celebrate Saint Patrick day, neither you need to be Irish. It’s not the first time Shanghai had Saint Patrick Parade. As far as my Internet search can find, Shanghai has been celebrating Saint Patrick day since as early as 2007.

I joint the Saint Patrick Parade once at New York and I appreciated Celtic Culture. The Irish culture is part of human culture. When Irish immigrants settled on other countries, they keep their culture and celebrate it on Saint Patrick Parade. I especially like their tap dance. I hope we Chinese immigrants can learn from Irish immigrants in this aspect. We don’t need to hate Chinese culture in order to enter West Culture. In fact, we can, just like Irish, be proud of our culture and bring fresh air into local culture in our citizen country. Different cultures should respect each other and should live together. You can feel the humanity spirit in Saint Patrick Parade. Irish people are proud of their own culture. Their cheer their heritage without the need to hate other cultures. They welcome you to share the joy with them regardless your culture background. Feel good about our own culture, and feel good about other cultures. That’s the humanity spirit. Like Irish immigrants, we don't need to hate China in order to be other countries' citizen. Like Irish immigrants, We can love our citizen country and China at the same time.

Saint Patrick Day is a Catholic religion day, but don’t be afraid. Whether you are Catholic, Protestant, Islamic, Buddhism, Confucian, or simply atheist, just joint the parade and celebrate Saint Patrick Day. Irish has not intention to convert you into Catholic by Saint Patrick parade. That’s the humanity spirit of Saint Patrick parade. Irish celebrate their Christian heritage of their culture while respect others' faiths and believes. Freedom of believe can only exist when no one regards believers of other faiths are inferior or evil. Irish celebrate their culture of Catholic background, and welcome people of other believes to celebrate with them. I wish our Chinese immigrants can enter local society while keeping our own Buddhism, Confucian or atheism believes, share our joy with love and dignity like Irish in Saint Patrick Parade.

A Chinese girl I known married an Irish husband. They are a happy couple. Religion, ethnic race and culture are barriers can be overcome by love. Religion, Race and culture should not be barriers separate human into different countries that hate each other. People can live together while keeping their own culture heritage.

Please celebrate Saint Patrick day with every one in your company or your community. You don’t need to be a Catholic or an Irish to celebrate Saint Patrick Day. Saint Patrick day belongs to Irish culture, and belongs also to human culture. Let us joint Irish to celebrate Saint Patrick Day just like we welcome others to joint us in celebrate Chinese Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Please celebrate Saint Patrick day. It’s part of human culture. I hope in the future the world has only one country called the Earth and only one nation called Human Being.

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