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*Note: This is targeted towards Americans. Especially those mainstream people can name all of Brittany Spear's songs, but not the national anthem. Plus, contains huge amounts of stereotyping, but sadly enough, most of the stereotypes are true and apply to a good deal of Americans.
Ugh, my friend just wrote a retarded happy-go-lucky kid journal about Thanksgiving, which is why I'm writing this rant. So if you want to actually question your thinking and customs for a change, read this. If you don't want to hear the truth, move to the next article.
Thanksgiving...when you hear the name, it doesn't sound like a bad holiday. It actually sounds like a good one, where we're happy for what we have. Well it's not.
Let's talk about where "Thanksgiving" came from. It was founded when we came to America, stole lands from the Native Americans, and called it sharing? That's sharing alright! Nevermind, we did share. Smallpox.
Sound like a good thing to celebrate about? If you have common sense, you'd say no. If you don't say no, move to the next article please.
Honestly, when it comes right down to it, Thanksgiving is just another stupid holiday for Americans to eat more than usual, and it's called the holiday of sharing? Sharing, pfft. By that most people mean "pass the bread!". What's the point of sharing if you don't do it when it counts? Like with the starving kids in Africa?
"Let's be thankful!" Thankful for what? That you're not out on the streets? Instead of saying "Thank God, I'm not that person!", why don't we go help "that person"?
Typical American holiday. Stupid, pointless, and just a way to feel better about yourself by saying you have more than someone else
I have a new name for this "holiday", that is has its true meaning in the name. That true meaning being gluttony.
Hope you enjoyed this rant! Happy Glutton Day!
P.S. Also, don't leave stupid comments saying "Omg but I like Thanksgiving!" or "Thanksgiving pwns!"
Just because you get an unusual intake of food doesn't mean that it's a good holiday.
Also, for those people who just love to be stupid when reading. Don't think this applies directly to you. Actually if you leave a comment saying "Well me and my mom give food to Africa every year!" honestly just proves that you don't.
The people who read this knows whether it applies to them or not. Don't be stupid.
- by Remy Lafayette |
- Non Fiction
- | Submitted on 11/28/2008 |
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- Title: Thanksgiving Essay/Rant
- Artist: Remy Lafayette
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Description:
Just bored and decided to complain about something I hate-stupid holidays made by stupid people.
- Date: 11/28/2008
- Tags: thanksgiving essayrant
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Comments (7 Comments)
- Little candy45 - 03/17/2009
- sad Nice
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- [Ryuuzaki L] - 12/11/2008
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So true.
Very convincing too. 5/5 - Report As Spam
- refnegafadiag - 12/04/2008
- If you are trying to convince your reader to agree with you, you do not attack the reader and force them to agree; instead, you provide the reader with background on the subject, make your claim and support it, and then encourage the reader to draw their own conclusions. Any intelligent reader would read the first few lines and then dismiss it as worthless. If university-level academia wrote like this, we would probably stone people for petty crimes.
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- refnegafadiag - 12/04/2008
- Your essay is a classic "straw man" argument, in which one creates a flawed position and then proceeds to take it apart. While I neither confirm nor deny your accusation for what it is, I do not approve of your method of forcing the reader to accept a premise that you discovered on your own.
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- refnegafadiag - 12/04/2008
- This is not an essay, it is a mindless, shameless rant. Stereotyping is wrong, no matter how well you think it applies to a group of people. Furthermore, you do not cite your claims about when "we" came to America and stole land; I was certainly not around when Europeans contacted the natives. If you are going to write an essay attacking the tradition and history of Thanksgiving as it is practiced in the United States, then you should darn well find some good evidence and support it.
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- FlyyMeToPluto - 12/03/2008
- i love what you wrote it is sooo true! infact i didn't have thanksgiving this year. Well my bro did but i didn't go with him. i stayed home and ate popcorn, toast, and grilled cheese sandwiches. lol
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- ThrillerOMG - 12/03/2008
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ha. i love it!
and it so true!!
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