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Does this land truly have an entire day in celebration of turkeys?

....And is this Turkey Day the reason no one was at "high school" today?

[SOMEBODY DIDN'T GET THE MEMO ABOUT THE LONG WEEKEND. NINJAS DON'T HAVE HOLIDAYS OKAY.]

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'Turkey Day' is not the given name of the holiday. Its rightful name is 'Thanksgiving' and it is a celebration of harvest, history, and family. On Thanksgiving, people give thanks for the things in their lives they are grateful for.

And yes, it is probably the reason no one attended your school today. Oftentimes government-run facilities are closed for major holidays.

[Sai is about to comment that none of those things have anything to do with turkeys, but then Yuri makes that final comment, and he just. Tilts his head in evident confusion and blinks.]

But they said they're at war.

Edited 2014-11-28 07:10 (UTC)

They'll tell you it's about family and giving thanks and stuff, but it's really about eating and mindless consumerism. So, yeah, turkeys.

[ Pause. ]

Not American, I guess.

It is not uncommon for both sides to agree to a temporary truce when it comes to holidays, although I will admit that I don't think that is the case here. It is more likely that it has not been suspended due to both tradition and people requiring something positive with which to focus their attentions upon.

yuri left out a lot
ok so they tell everyone thanksgiving started bc colonists came to america and the native americans helped them out so they had a bigass feast to celebrate
but thats before they killed them all and took over
now we just use it as an excuse to overeat and be lazy

[ wow ]

Brilliantly described.

Nobody was at the middle school either. Somebody talked a bit about what Thanksgiving was to me yesterday, though. They kept talking about the pilgrims and the Indians—oh, and some guy named Squanto! [ That's all Hime remembers, a dude named Squanto. ]

[Never let the first-gen Russian immigrant explain American traditions.]

thanks, i try

Here's a suggestion. Maybe don't try to ruin all the nice parts of the holiday for him.

oh wait that was sarcasm
look im not gonna lie to him, what's that gonna accomplish
this country's built on enough deception as it is

[ She almost writes something reckless and stupid back at him. She can't complain about her own country to him, but...Honestly, if he thinks this place is bad, he must be spoiled absolutely rotten. ]

Did they use the feast to murder the people who were there?

not sure there ever was a feast to be honest
just makes a nice story for the kids
sure used blankets laced with smallpox tho

Right. So everything bad that ever happened is "surely" true, and everything good gets a "not sure it happened." That's very nice.

ur obviously mad about something but i'm not getting what
are you not from a similar place maybe
you wanna know what colonists did to the native americans you can pick up a history book, pretty sure it's the same here as it is in my world

I'm from London. And I know that they've done rotten things. I've read the history books. But reducing treatment to just "good" or "bad" makes everything completely meaningless. What bad has happened doesn't erase what's good, and what's good doesn't erase what's bad. If they want to throw a holiday to highlight what was good, then you coming along and spitting on that is cruel and idiotic.

i'm not spitting on anything, i just think its better to know why ur doing things than to bury ur head in the sand
america isn't built on puppies & sunshine and thats just the truth
doesn't mean i hate thanksgiving, i'm glad i get to do something for it again

Yeah, you're really good at showing that.

[...He's not really sure what's happening here, but--]

Ah, there's no reason to argue, Lizzie-san. I'm not upset.

[Here, have a perfectly bright (a little too perfect tbh) smile to prove it.]

and youre really good at jumping into posts and judging strangers

Well, I am. So I think that's reason enough.

It's a special talent.

There's more than one way to bury your head in the sand. You can be blind to anything bad with your country and pretend that everything's fine. That's not a good thing. Believe me. I know. But it's just blindness of a different sort to pretend that there's nothing good that's ever happened. That's just as destructive for forward progress.

If there is no truce, then wouldn't it be simple for their enemies to strike while their government was openly shut down like this?

I don't understand. Don't people eat every day?

[This sure doesn't seem like a country where people are starving :|a]

And that would be correct.

Well, yeah. But some days they eat more. It's a holiday for eating.

It's okay if you don't get it.

[Honestly he doesn't even look shocked or disturbed by this information. People go to war all the time. Even the Leaf's current allies, like the Sand, weren't always its allies.

There is one clarification he'd like, though.]

So they celebrate an alliance that no longer exists? Or is it the collapse of the alliance they're celebrating?

Edited (needed more literal interp) 2014-11-29 06:31 (UTC)

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