• firecat@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      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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        8 months ago

        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.

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      8 months ago

      Oh man, that is so good. So many people living with chronic pain would love one single day of “nothing.” Children and others suffering constant abuse would be so grateful for a day of “nothing.” In war, what is a cease-fire but some “nothing” for a change?

      Thankful for nothing. Yes. Very good 👍