Ireland´s Saint Patricks Day vs The United States Saint Patricks Day

When learning about Ireland , I realized that lots of the things I knew about Saint Patricks day were not completely true , it was just like the first time I found out that the original Santa Claus is Green and not red.

March the 17th is an important day calebrated all around the world , it is known as Saint Patricks Day , this day is celebrated for different reasons in different countries, today I´m going to compare the original Ireland celebration vs the United States celebration.

In Ireland this day is for celebrating Saint Patrick a romano-briton who first arrived at the country as a slave , after six years of being a slave he went back home to become a priest , later on he decides to go back to Ireland and arrives in their lands bringing christianity with him , nowadays Saint Patricks day in Ireland is celebrated not only by going to church but by making big parades and by drinking guinness (black beer) , but this is only because turists demand it , if it wasnt for tourist Saint Patricks day in Ireland would remain a pure holiday.

In The United States this day is mainly to celebrate the Irish people and not a religious figure (Saint Patrick) .In the late 1700th many people from the US had Irish haritage , when they realized the important number they formed they began to organize themselves and started to feel more important as an Irish community. This is why they celebrate their haritage in Saint Patricks day , as a way of saying I´m proud of being Irish in a foreign land . Nowadays this holiday in the U.S is mostly celebrated just as an other comercial holiday, everybody wears green and makes a big fest about it , even if you dont have Irsh haritage you still enjoy and celebrate this holiday.