Thanksgiving here in the states; eat & party, and occasionally surf the forums!
Hope all the American’s have a good day and don’t over indulge (too much) 
nlsthzn wrote:
> Hope all the American’s
all the “Americans”?
do the Canadians, Mexicans, Bolivians, Brazilians etc etc etc join the
good folks in the United States Americans in the Thanksgiving tradition?
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DenverD
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Ok, to the North Amer… ok, to the American people of the United States of America… that better
I think, if you want to get picky, which you usually do, nlsthzn meant to say was that s/he hopes that all those people living in the United States, commonly called America, and therefore the people living there also called Americans. I do beleive Canada celbrates thanks giving day. I think it’s called Canada Day.
Don’t worry about being politically correct. Most know what you meant, and it’s the thought that counts anyways.
Canadians celebrate in October opposite the US Columbus day.
South-Americans also have a different day of celebration but I forgot what it was.
Nope, dear friend, it’s also called Thanksgiving Day just celebrates 1 month earlier.
Yes lots of confusion cause anything across the big drip ( er Pacific/Atlantic ocean) is called loosely America just as going the other way is Europe or Asia or Africa or Eur-Asia & Africa. I remember a big stick raised on a TV program when a little kid said there are only 5 countries in the world because he could only see 5 major continents: UK, Eur-Asia, Africa, America, and Australia.
Here’s another one to chomp yur teeth into! Here in Canada, the TV always gives the time a program will show or an event will occur but tacked on the end they say ‘half an hour later in newfoundland’. So if the world comes to an end one day will it also happen half an hour later in newfoundland??
techwiz03 wrote:
> So if the world comes to an end one day will it also happen half an
> hour later in newfoundland??
LOL!!
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Jonathan R wrote:
> I think, if you want to get picky, which you usually do, nlsthzn meant
> to say was that s/he hopes that all those people living in the United
> States, commonly called America, and therefore the people living there
> also called Americans.
i knew what nlsthzn meant, and i know that most folks in the 50
consider themselves as “Americans” and considers all the other
Americans as Mexicans, Canadians, etc etc etc…
but, i never new that until i was in Denmark (or UK, or Germany or i
don’t remember) and when someone asked me where i was from, and i
replied “America” i was surprised and confused when the questioner’s
reply was “Which country in America?”
and, i said “You mean which State?” and she said, “Oh, did you mean
you are from ‘the States’, the ‘United States’”?
picky? i don’t know, if you ask a Berliner where he is from and he
replies “Europe.” would you be picky and want know which country?
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our US forum members!
Happy thanksgiving everyone.
The Brazilians do not celebrate Thanksgiving. For us the day to thanks, exchanging gifts and family dinner is Christmas. The most important is the Christmas lunch that the whole family gathers, eats barbecue. The barbecue is typical of southern Brazil, so the Brazilians from other regions celebrate in different ways.
Speaking of Brazil - I saw Gilberto Gil in Princeton last month…really good!
Unfortunately, in Brazil, few enjoy Gilberto Gil. I do not know why …