About 12 years ago, they began spreading the ethnic theme dates throughout the season.
Homeowners should also avoid anything too dark and gloomy, or with a religious or ethnic theme, she said, "because you want to appeal to a large market".
Several baseball teams hold ethnic theme dates to build their fan bases, and with the New York Mets playing in Queens — perhaps the most polyglot spot on the planet — it might stand to reason that they schedule a veritable mosaic.
The Dai park, with its wooden stilt homes, groomed palm trees and elephant statues, is part of an increasingly popular form of entertainment in China -- the ethnic theme playground, where middle-class Han come to experience what they consider the most exotic elements of their vast nation.
The Lions are hardly the only English team with an ethnic theme — the Lions have played against teams that are predominantly Muslim or Catholic — but it is believed that no other club in the formal soccer pyramid chooses to self-impose such a rigid restriction.
The diverse menu, with no specific ethnic theme, the large impersonal dining rooms we passed on our way to the bar, the neon beer signs flashing outside our windows, all made me suspect that this was a place geared to banquets and large gatherings, not cooked-to-order dining.
