"rw" wrote in message
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Thanksgiving is a feel-good AMERICAN holiday. Believe it or not, most of
the world, including a significant percentage of ROFF, couldn't care
less about Thanksgiving, even if they know what it represents. I like
Thanksgiving -- it's my favorite holiday -- but celebrating Thanksgiving
or Veteran's Day or the Fourth of July or the like ON ROFF strikes me as
crass American chauvinism. There's an underlying assumption that ROFF
belongs to the US, in some fundamental sense. Our English and Canadian
and Aussie and Kiwi colleagues have the good taste, at least, to
celebrate Boxing Day on their own time, in their own way.

Thanksgiving is also a Canadian Holiday, we just have it a month or earlier
than you.

I have no problem with people wishing each other well, regardless of the
reason. I plan to celebrate US thanksgiving myself. My oldest daughter has
grown up in the US, and is visiting me here in the north thsi week. We are
cooking a turkey tomorrow just for the hell of it.

Happy Thanskgiving

Tim Lysyk
timlysyk at telus dot net