{"id":438,"date":"2002-11-25T18:13:36","date_gmt":"2002-11-25T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/11\/25\/cultural_insensitivity.html"},"modified":"2002-11-25T18:13:36","modified_gmt":"2002-11-25T18:13:36","slug":"cultural_insensitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/11\/25\/cultural_insensitivity.html","title":{"rendered":"cultural insensitivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cunundrum.  The vernacular approach to &#8220;Happy Thanksgiving&#8221; is &#8220;Celebrate life and love with family and friends&#8221;.  Yet, Thanksgiving is a holiday based on destruction, death and imperialism.  What does it mean to be a holiday?  To celebrate these values?  I hadn&#8217;t really remembered that Thanksgiving was approaching, because i never actually wish anyone a Happy Thanksgiving, partially outta frustration that i see that day as my birth day and therefore refuse to give it the violent inscription, since i need to own it for my own sanity&#8230; But then, at last night&#8217;s Ani concert, some punk ass screamed out &#8220;Happy Thanksgiving Ani&#8221; and Ani stopped singing and said &#8220;Imagine living in a country where our holidays celebrate life instead of death.&#8221;  Of course, this made me smile, because i couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p>And now i&#8217;m faced with a situation.  I need to tell 1000 people that we&#8217;re not going to be doing our normal weekly thang because of the holiday, but how do you politely and respectfully say what the vernacular means without implying the historical insensitivity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cunundrum. The vernacular approach to &#8220;Happy Thanksgiving&#8221; is &#8220;Celebrate life and love with family and friends&#8221;. Yet, Thanksgiving is a holiday based on destruction, death and imperialism. What does it mean to be a holiday? To celebrate these values? I hadn&#8217;t really remembered that Thanksgiving was approaching, because i never actually wish anyone a Happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}