Posted on 12/08/2009 12:02:11 PM PST by giant sable
Is it wrong for an American to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas?
Sounds like a crazy question, but it’s actually at the center of a lawsuit that’s on its way to court.
Promila Awasthi is a US citizen, originally from India. She lives in Silicon Valley, and worked for software giant Infosys at its Fremont, Calif. office in 2008. When she was there, she claims, she was routinely teased by two of her supervisors for celebrating American holidays. “Why, as an Indian, should you be celebrating Thanksgiving?” she says she was asked. “You should not be doing that,” she was told.
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When I was around 10 (today I’m 75) an idiot asked my father why he, an immigrant celebrated Thanksgiving. What did have to be thankful for.
My father’s vehement answer, “I give THANKS for now being an American and I give THANKS that I may raise my children in the United States.”
Right...workers in India get Christmas off IIRC, even though only 2-3% of Indians are Christian.
She’s at least as American as you are, a*shole!
How many of the Indian-Americans come from the scholar caste?
If it wasn’t for Thanksgiving and Christmas. they wouldn’t be holidays to begin with. If these people don’t like it, they can move to china or somewhere like that.
This reminds me of the Frenchman who wanted to become an Englishman, but would not say why.
When he was finally naturalized as a British citizen he told why.
He said...’Yesterday Waterloo was a defeat. Today it is a Victory!”
Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much for sharing that sentiment. It’s that VERY thing that we celebrate Thanksgiving (and to thank God for our wonderful country and all the other things we have as Americans)!
I did, but got tripped up by the conversation sentence. Thought she was the one asking why an Indian would celebrate Thanksgiving, not her co-workers asking her and telling her she shouldn’t.
Her co-workers can take her plane instead.
You assume correctly that she is being harassed by Indian Nationals:
Jeebus, could you read the effing article before you start plucking yer 1 string banjo?
Agreed!
That's what Americans do. I have good friend Bombay that is quite grateful for the opportunities he and his wife found in America. They are big about American holidays.
If people entering this country are so afraid of loosing or diluting their culture they should stay home. My friends have enhanced their culture.
I know its a joke, but I take Columbus Day off, even if I have to use PTO, and celebrate “MLK Day” as Robert E. Lee’s Birthday.
My Scotland-born grandfather, who came to the U.S. in the early 20s with my grandmother and their three young kids (my dad was only 3), LOVED the 4th of July.
"It's the day we whupped the British," he used to quip. He was proud to be an American. As am I.
I only once made the mistake of lumping Pakistanis and Indians togetherIn a past live I worked as a sysadmin at a large N.E. university. Sysadmins got the online discipline problems dumped on us and as a result, I learned one thing about Viet Namese and Cambodians: Hate. They simply HATED each other. The best I could do is calm them down, and get them out of my office (with a sigh of relief).
dfwgatorOuch! That's like lumping Poles and Russians together. 19 posted on 12/08/2009 12:28:48 PM PST by dfwgator
It’s a free country.
forum monitor?
Morons. Why would Indian's not be able thank their Creator for the bounty He bestows upon us?
LOL!
I'd have to say that's pretty far down on my list too.
The person who came up with the sendmail config file syntax was EVIL.
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