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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-10-08 3:10 PM, wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:44:23 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:

>> Oh yeah. I aced that serve and you failed to return it. As I explained
>> to you... twice.... I grew up here and I know the tradition that we were
>> raised with. For some reason, you are more inclined to go with an author
>> with the last name of Ali to argue about Canadian culture. While you
>> came to the UK, many of us have roots in the American colonies and have
>> ancestors who came here as Loyalists. How typical of you to try to
>> bolster your lame argument with a slur against the people credited with
>> organizing the first Thanksgiving. The fact remains that for those of us
>> who were born and raised in this country, Canadian Thanksgiving is
>> essentially the same celebration as the American Thanksgiving, sharing
>> the same roots and the same traditional foods, but held on different dates.
>>
> I mentioned this at the club this afternoon, NOT ONE Canadian agreed
> with you. You are not giving me a link to it, because you can't. You
> prefer instead to make racist comments. You are a very poor
> Canadian that you don't know Canadian Thanksgiving is linked to a
> church festival, even Megatron knows that now, not the Pilgrims.

Was that a gathering of your immigrant friends? I was talking about the
Canadian tradition, the one that those born, raised and educated here.
It is not racist to point out that the Ali surname would indicate that
the person does not have a Canadian heritage from which she would have
learned the old Thanksgiving tradition. She blew her credibility with
reference to Frobisher's successful completion of the North West
Passage, something that was not done until 400 years later.

Perhaps you need to work on reading comprehension, because no one said
that Thanksgiving was not at all connected with European harvest
festivals, and I thought I had indicated quite clearly that my wife, who
has Loyalist roots, does Thanksgiving in a big way, basically the same
way her American ancestors would have done. You completely misunderstood
what I said about her being disappointed that her church did not do a
Thanksgiving thing because they had done the harvest home thing the week
before.