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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Discussion tangent:

Something I realized after reading "Guns, Germs and Steel" was that, even if the European explorers and setters arrive in the Americas with nothing but kind hearts and friendly intentions, they still would have pretty much wiped out the indigenous population within the same time frame; the diseases they brought with them would still have spread just as much in such a vulnerable population.

Another tangent - I'm teaching 5th grade social studies and we are just discussing European explorers and settlers of the "new world" right now. I never had such an easy time getting student (these are ESOL students) to understand the term "epidemic" before, or why so many Native Americans were susceptible to the diseases the Europeans brought.  Talk about "lived experience".

Anyhow,

Thanksgiving is our only truly American holiday, that everyone can celebrate regardless of religion.  It doesn't have to have anything to do with Native Americans, though. It can just be a day of thanks for food and family.[/quote]

I guess our ancestors shouldn’t have pushed the fake pilgrim story then.

The 4th of July is a “truly American holiday”. 
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The fake pilgrim story was invented in the mid to late 1800s as way to bring the country together.  Now we're taking the story apart.  But we have nothing to replace it with.  Similar to the wider parallel.[/quote]

We could collectively look at it as a chance to bring ALL of the country together instead of just the white, male colonizers. Day of mourning *and* healing. 
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We have enough depressing days of mourning and reflection in this country. Can’t we have any damn fun anymore? This country has become so depressing. [/quote]

Though, honestly, I think most of these people are just deranged liberals so far gone that you rarely encounter them in real life (and if you did they’d bore you to tears with their sanctimony). They say stuff like this on the internet and on college campuses. Otherwise, super irrelevant.

We live a great life in a great neighborhood with people of many races and religions. Broadly liberal, sure, but people celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July in big and festive ways. Lots of joy. (One exception for the weird vegan family that attends every protest under the sun and litters their yard with political signs, but they’re rarely invited anyway.) Normal people don’t traffic in grievance politics. [/quote]

So you do have fun holidays or you don’t? 
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