Who is my neighbor?
We’ll be celebrating the Irish at the end of this week with parades, green beer and green rivers. Although only about 10.5 percent of Americans truly have Irish heritage, far more than that will claim a drop of Irish blood on St. Patrick’s Day, and people who forget (or refuse) to wear green will be chided (or “affectionately” pinched, according to a Wikipedia article). But it wasn’t that long ago in our history that most Americans hated and feared the…