Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. This is so because no matter what religion you are, or even if you are not religious at all, no matter what country you or your ancestors originate from, no matter what language you speak: if you are in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November you are almost certainly celebrating Thanksgiving.
The Indians weredying in large numbers from a new plague smallpox, and the Europeans were eating the food thathad been saved for the now departed, after all you cant take it with you. Please read "The Florida of the Inca" (varner translation of Vega, perhaps the first book written about America in the depth that it was. It tells a very compelling bunch of stories) Yes I agree with you about Thanks giving very important to share with one another and aply the Golden Rule in new and unknown situations, on principle. Not what the Castillians did here. The British did better. But not good enough, although they eventually replaced slavery by race with indentured servitude mostly of poor Indians like the family of a future Nobel Laureate for the English language V.S.Naipaul. We urgently NEED to abolish slavery altogether its too big a temptation that will be used if we don't. Soon.
The Indians weredying in large numbers from a new plague smallpox, and the Europeans were eating the food thathad been saved for the now departed, after all you cant take it with you. Please read "The Florida of the Inca" (varner translation of Vega, perhaps the first book written about America in the depth that it was. It tells a very compelling bunch of stories) Yes I agree with you about Thanks giving very important to share with one another and aply the Golden Rule in new and unknown situations, on principle. Not what the Castillians did here. The British did better. But not good enough, although they eventually replaced slavery by race with indentured servitude mostly of poor Indians like the family of a future Nobel Laureate for the English language V.S.Naipaul. We urgently NEED to abolish slavery altogether its too big a temptation that will be used if we don't. Soon.
Thanks (!) for your uplifting words, Creon. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.