• CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Brazil commemorates Thanksgiving? In what bizarro world? I’ve never met a single person here who ever did that, in fact the vast majority of people have absolutely no clue what Thanksgiving is or that it even exists.

    The author is just pulling this shit out of their asses lol.

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      I was going to say lol, I’d struggle to find anyone who is even aware of it in real life

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      It is a wishful-thinking style article on the web where some yank once met some yank who lived in Brazil and thus decided from this that every person in Brazil celebrated the USian holiday. Same in Japan, who definitely do not celebrate thanksgiving any more than Brazil does. But the yanks all think the world revolves around them.

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            Certainly not, but it is at least a holiday that is recognized in an official capacity and a lot of people get the day off from work or get out early. From what I’m hearing in the other comments, Brazil doesn’t really do anything at all, so it’s more of a holiday in Japan than it is in Brazil.

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        Maybe, but that’s like 0.1% of the population, there aren’t many American communities in Brazil. Maybe it’s a thing in Americana (a town founded by ex-confederates, I shit you not), but otherwise…

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      This article in Wikipedia mentions Brazil under “Observance.” Apparently there are a couple of Brazilian laws that establish Thanksgiving as a holiday and set its date as the fourth Thursday in November.

      So maybe edit Wikipedia? Note to them that it isn’t known or celebrated?

      I really wish I hadn’t mentioned Brazil or Japan. I was just interested in what people were thankful for. I’m truly sorry if I offended Brazilian or Japanese people.

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      Didn’t a lot of people (confederate) move to South America, mostly Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina after the civil war?

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        6000 to Brazil more especifically, somewhat insignificant number if you ask me considering the number of germans, italians, japanese and arabs that immigrated here.

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            1 year ago

            I know, 6000 people mostly concetrated in the town of Americana with roughly 250k citizens (not all American descendants obviously), so if there’s a place that might celebrate Thanksgiving in Brazil, it’s there.

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              Isn’t that the town Ford had built to make rubber so they could practice"vertical integration?" (Thanks stuff you should know podcast!) Lol

              Edit: thanks Wikipedia and Caligvla, NO thanks to stuff you should know! Interesting history there lol