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For Lemmy. Moving from the alien site to here has been fantastic.
I wanted to say that too. Of course, family is great too, but I'm always grateful for that. Today it's Lemmy's turn.
Brazil commemorates Thanksgiving? In what bizarro world? I've never met a single person here who ever did that, in fact the vast majority of people have absolutely no clue what Thanksgiving is or that it even exists.
The author is just pulling this shit out of their asses lol.
I was going to say lol, I'd struggle to find anyone who is even aware of it in real life
It is a wishful-thinking style article on the web where some yank once met some yank who lived in Brazil and thus decided from this that every person in Brazil celebrated the USian holiday. Same in Japan, who definitely do not celebrate thanksgiving any more than Brazil does. But the yanks all think the world revolves around them.
Labor Thanksgiving Day is a thing in Japan, though. It's the equivalent of Labor Day.
It is not, however, the holiday that Americans call Thanksgiving.
Certainly not, but it is at least a holiday that is recognized in an official capacity and a lot of people get the day off from work or get out early. From what I'm hearing in the other comments, Brazil doesn't really do anything at all, so it's more of a holiday in Japan than it is in Brazil.
If other countries had a public holiday on January First, would that mean they celebrate Federation Day? If they had a public holiday later on in January, then are they celebrating my countries Invasion Day?
Yes, it is the same day as one in America. No, that doesn't mean the Japanese are all celebrating a US thanksgiving.
It's not always the same day, this year is just coincidental.
Being a holiday established during the post-war US occupation of Japan, though, I wouldn't say it is entirely disconnected from the US holiday. It was willed into existence by Americans based on the fact that the US also celebrates a holiday around that time of year, and so the name is not coincidental.
I'd consider them as related as Christmas and Yule, at least.
Didnβt a lot of people (confederate) move to South America, mostly Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina after the civil war?
6000 to Brazil more especifically, somewhat insignificant number if you ask me considering the number of germans, italians, japanese and arabs that immigrated here.
I meant in the context of celebrating thanksgiving.
I know, 6000 people mostly concetrated in the town of Americana with roughly 250k citizens (not all American descendants obviously), so if there's a place that might celebrate Thanksgiving in Brazil, it's there.
~~Isn't that the town Ford had built to make rubber so they could practice"vertical integration?" (Thanks stuff you should know podcast!) Lol~~
Edit: thanks Wikipedia and Caligvla, NO thanks to stuff you should know! Interesting history there lol
This article in Wikipedia mentions Brazil under "Observance." Apparently there are a couple of Brazilian laws that establish Thanksgiving as a holiday and set its date as the fourth Thursday in November.
So maybe edit Wikipedia? Note to them that it isn't known or celebrated?
I really wish I hadn't mentioned Brazil or Japan. I was just interested in what people were thankful for. I'm truly sorry if I offended Brazilian or Japanese people.
It may be a USA Brazilian thing, the diaspora is quite large.
Maybe, but that's like 0.1% of the population, there aren't many American communities in Brazil. Maybe it's a thing in Americana (a town founded by ex-confederates, I shit you not), but otherwise...
I'm thankful for key lime pie. I may not have it as much as I want, but the idea alone of having another bite some day really keeps me going.
I am thankful for being born and living in Europe πͺπΊ
That's looking increasingly like a good choice you made.
Thankful for my union fighting hours on hours to negotiate a better job for me. The other day they negotiated until 3 am!
My Pathfinder group, who agree with me that to (fictionally) run screaming at people with a lit black powder bomb in my hands is the right thing to do.
No one in Japan celebrating a fake holiday you Americans came up with.
Itβs called Labor Thanksgiving Day (kinro kansha no hi):
A national holiday for honoring labour.
I mean, all holidays are kind of fake. They aren't self-evident, even kinro kansha no hi.
But happy Kinro Kansha No Hi!
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I'm thankful for my wife and family. Also overcoming my years of struggle with depression.
That's awesome!
3 years now. Never did I think I was capable of this kind of mental stability. Thankful every day.
I've had months before. I can't even imagine years. So happy for you β€οΈ
It's been a rough year and I came very close to being furloughed. Managed to get a new client just at the right time and now I'm thriving again. I'm thankful for having frankly a lot of luck over the years which has put me where I am today. I'm not saying hard work wasn't important too, but sheer luck has been helpful too.
So many things are, frankly, out of our control, and we act like they aren't sometimes. I think being thankful is a way of acknowledging that the lines fell out in pleasant places.
fun place called fediverse
TIL that Brazil has a Thanksgiving day... But we do not celebrate it, and -unfortunately- it's not a holiday.
Anyway, I'm glad of the friendships that I have and had.
I'm a day late, but I have a lot to be thankful for! My partner, friends, food, home, better mental health, and so much more
I love to hear about it! I'm so glad you added your comment, I love it!
Communists all over the world doing their best to make it a better place!
Anarchists too 
I'm thankful for the shelter, heat, and electrical power I worked hard to have this year, that I am debt free and have enough in the bank to make it at least to spring without working if I wanted to. I'm thankful that my family members are still all alive and that the future still has hope.
I'm thankful for all the native americans slaughtered, so we could claim all their land, call them savages and celebrate their genocide.
it's so heartwarming, I can't put into words. π
So, have you signed up with some ancestor research company to find out what you and your family are personally responsible for? Which slave names are the results of your great great grandfather's rape? What theft, what oppression, what abuse did your people inflict on others? Do you care?
How many aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters did your family personally kill, in war or in cold blood? Could you count them all?
Are you committing to seeking out and making good all the past offenses and atrocities of your own personal family, and show us how it ought to be done?
OR - you could accept the past as it is because it won't change, flawed and time-locked as it was, with good examples and bad, but that's what happened. Forgive yourself and your ancestors and mourn for those who were hurt. We absolutely need to accept the truth to learn and grow.
That doesn't mean we have nothing to be thankful for today. I daresay even you might find something to be thankful for if you thought about it, Satan.