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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.
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…
Didn’t 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
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.
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.
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I am thankful for being born and living in Europe 🇪🇺
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!
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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 ❤️
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.
It’s 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!
Well no, the Americans holidays are 99% fake. Thanksgiving wasn’t a thing until presidents proclaimed it.
Christmas is fake because 1) the religious conflict with April and 2) Corporate wanting people to buy stuff during December.
Valentine’s day is another corporate scam to sell stuff that it soon became a thing in Japan too ( but we added white day).
Halloween is the false narrative name for Allhallowtide and lost the original meaning of respect for the dead.
I don’t know any actual holiday Americans ever created that isn’t a national thing or international event.
Christmas is actually about the mushrooms, Amanita Muscaria to be more precise
Juneteenth is a very American holiday. For bad reasons obviously, but still American.
Yes but it’s not like an event for celebrating or cheering. It’s always about fighting and the people are still fighting.
That’s different from the Japanese one… how, exactly?
Thankful for two years cancer free, my son is getting good grades and doing good at soccer and martial arts (the two things I did growing up) and the company I work for is growing massively and work is still interesting.
Cheers
That’s awesome! How great to be able to say all that where a few years ago you must have felt like the world was caving in on you.
So happy for you mate
Thanks yeah for real
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 thankful for my sweet cat, Ziggy! :) Thanks for asking, OP!
Give Ziggy a smooch for me!
