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Originally Posted by Drolefille
However the point here is that somehow, American Indians shouldn't be upset that people dress up like them and get loaded because Catholics/Irish/Mexicans don't get upset about Mardi Gras/St. Patrick's Day/Cinco de Mayo. There's a big difference here. The latter are events that are intended for celebration (even St. Patrick's day), the first is dressing up in an attempt to "imitate" another culture. The equivalent here would be dressing up as a pregnant nun/ pedophile priest combo. I hate that and I get offended by it. VAST difference.
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THANK YOU! Also it bears mention that Cinco de Mayo *in some cases* involves those of non-Mexican heritage dressing like "Mexicans" in s disparaging way.
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Hey, I even looked again, checked the Catholic Encyclopedia and since before the Reformation the Church thought Carnival had gotten out of control but no mention of a specific service as there may be for the Anglicans. Doesn't mean that some parishes don't have a tradition of doing something though. And I do know where the Anglican Church comes from.
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Not to mention that there were numerous such holidays and saint days in the medieval Catholic church that had a "carnivalesque" element to them. Because you didn't have to work on these days, peasants and city people had parades/masquerades/all kinds of parties on these days. It was one thing that early Protestants critiqued and that the Catholic Church cut back on during the counter-Reformation (or Catholic Reformation if you prefer)--they reduced the number of religious holidays by over half I think. Don't remember if that was at the Council of Trent or not. Mardi Gras as we know it was a far more common style of holiday before say, the late 16th-century.
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