Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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, D?a 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information