[Leica] Thanksgiving

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Well said.

A lot depends on a point of view. Churchill, for example, is a hero to the
West, especially to European Jews, and rightly so, but he won the war by
diverting a harvest in 1943 from India to feed his troops and quite
deliberately causing a famine here in India which claimed 2-3 million
lives, so for us, he is racist scum from the gutter.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 11:38 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> The ambivalence is not about our riches today but the historical
> background for the holiday. What we are celebrating is a Disneyfied version
> of the story of the arrival of the European settlers in North America. The
> reality is genocide committed on Native Americans. It is for the same
> reason that I have a deep distaste for Spain’s national day, Día de la
> Hispanidad on 12 October, what is known as Columbus Day in the US (this
> distaste is shared by many of my Spanish friends, BTW).
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
>
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>
> YNWA
>
>
>
>
> > On 26 Nov 2021, at 01:39, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> >
> > No reason for ambivalence in the west.  We have riches beyond compare to
> > historical peoples and cultures.  The difficulties in transferring these
> > riches to other cultures is a difficult problem but for one day we can
> > thank our ancestors for our bounty.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 5:31 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I have always been ambivalent about this holiday, but still, we are
> >> celebrating it with our Spanish friends who find the turkey, pecan pie
> etc.
> >> all very interesting and exotic. So, to my friends in the US, may your
> >> turkey be perfectly cooked, may your football team win, and most
> >> importantly, may you spend this day with people you love.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >> Nathan Wajsman
> >> photo at frozenlight.eu
> >>
> >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> >> http://www.greatpix.eu
> >> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> >>
> >> YNWA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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