Yes, yes, we all know Danish culture is superior to barbarian-primitive US culture. Spare us your lecturing, we have bugs to pick out of each others' hair.
That wasn't what I meant specifically.
LJ would have worn a studenterhue. Seems like a weird quasi-fascistic tradition to me.
Haha, it's actually a sailor's cap, and I have no idea why exactly it happened to be that way. On our high school graduation day, we ride around on a bus, get
really really drunk wearing the cap, and that's kind of it. I think it's more remiscent of our naval tradition than anything.
Wasn't the Danish culture a ripp off of the Dutch culture, or did I imagine that?
Haha, no. It's just our languages that happens to sound similar. Danish is a traditional Scandinavian culture with heavy German influences in the ruling practices and higher educational methods. (Our arts is practically ripoffs of Germany from before WWI.)
You have to segregate the low class from the educated in some sort of fashion, might as well be a cap
It's a high school tradition, it's not a particularly upper class.
Yes, I far prefer taking land from natives and then ignoring them except for ethnological study purposes.
I'm not sure what to construe from this post, whether it's satirical or not, but the deal with the natives is pretty much why I find thanksgiving strange. From what I understand, of course, I've never actually had a primary school class on it: It's basically a harvest festivity whose origins having been repeatingly romanticized with the famous dining with the American natives and has been a symbol of peacefulness, appreciation and friendliness, almost harmony, at least as having been showcased over here.
Respectful festivity shared between white and red man and all. But the remaining American-native relations wasn't particularly respectful, so the primary school presentation on the origin of thanksgiving with the pilgrim dinner feels wrong. It's merely ironic.
That you celebrate it right now, and what it has become: That's really beautiful and splendid. It's important to spend time with your family.
Explaining why the cultural memes exist, all the native food being eaten... That's slightly disturbing.
I've read
only a little bit on the tradition of Thanksgiving, and I know that it's very superficial what I'm putting out here. Please do tell me it is not romanticized during primary school and amongst the general population. Because that's what I've been told by friends visiting your place and simplistic online articles written by and for the common American. (You know, the people this is actually important to.) I've always felt a little bit disturbed about the whole deal, and simply, if you could tell me why I'm not to be disturbed, I'd really appreciate it.
We have stuff like that too, you know. In Denmark during Christmas we put up straw goats, which is an old Pagan tradition that never really left the Yule festivals. It doesn't disturb me per se, but at least it allows some extremists to point at Denmark and tell us we're going to burn in Hell terribly.
