Oh, Rats! I Missed Citizenship Day
Not that there was anyone else making a big deal out of it -- apparently it's one of the newer holidays and has only been around since 2004 -- but still when you are the son of a nationalized citizen and the grandson of a foreign-born woman who made a big deal about maintaining her legal residency in the United States, you feel silly ignoring such a holiday.
Perhaps when American businessmen find a way to make money off it, we will start hearing more about it. But, for now, having a special holiday for citizenship seems kinda quaint.
And it should not be.
But then I should be grateful that I was spared the ordeal of having to watch endless Citizenship Day specials on TV. As well as the inevitable Citizenship Day sales. And the equally inevitable Citizenship Day beer commercials.
Not that there was anyone else making a big deal out of it -- apparently it's one of the newer holidays and has only been around since 2004 -- but still when you are the son of a nationalized citizen and the grandson of a foreign-born woman who made a big deal about maintaining her legal residency in the United States, you feel silly ignoring such a holiday.
Perhaps when American businessmen find a way to make money off it, we will start hearing more about it. But, for now, having a special holiday for citizenship seems kinda quaint.
And it should not be.
But then I should be grateful that I was spared the ordeal of having to watch endless Citizenship Day specials on TV. As well as the inevitable Citizenship Day sales. And the equally inevitable Citizenship Day beer commercials.
Labels: Americanas y Americanos, Mi Vida
posted by Tonio Kruger at 4:04 PM
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