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By: Giving Thanks To China: Part II | Lost Laowai China Blog

Giving Thanks To China: Part II | Lost Laowai China Blog — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:40:02 +0000

[...] tends to be about eating, but it is deeply rooted in being thankful for the good fortune you have. A year ago, I wrote a post giving thanks to China for all that it has given me, today I intend to add to [...]

By: nali

nali — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:39:46 +0000

Very belated comment (maybe because we don’t celebrate “Thanks Giving” in Australia) but I love this post. Thanks Glen for a bit of positivity. You can’t go wrong with gratitude and contentment. I wholeheartedly agree with your list and can add (for me) that it somehow has helped me grow and I think become a better person. Cheers China!

By: Glen

Glen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:30:11 +0000

Eric, it’s all better now. The internet started eating my words, they must have not gotten enough food at Thanksgiving. Thanks for the heads up.

However in the future I think that I may have posts end with sentence fragments, it just seems so much more mysterious, doesn’t it?

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:26:12 +0000

Glen, am I the only one to notice that this post ends with “But I”? With a full stop after it, it might pass as some kind of gnomic dadaist wisdom, but as it is it just looks like a mistake.

But that isn’t possible, is it? Is it?

Belated Happy Cdn Thanksgiving to one and all. Careful on the ice: very slippery, and very hard.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:23:10 +0000

@Matt: I always liked Canadian Thanksgiving because it is the precursor to Hallowe’en. While American Thanksgiving may be about kickoffs, more than anything else it marks the starting line for the Christmas holiday madness.

But as a holiday though, I agree, it’s right up there with St. Patrick’s day. You’re really not expected to do much other than drink and eat.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:34:28 +0000

Actually I always liked Thanksgiving precisely because it lacked the commercial edge of Christmas, July 4th, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, etc. Just food, football, and far too much to drink.

By: Wu Song

Wu Song — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:35:02 +0000

bear thanksfulness in mind.

By: Chip

Chip — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:52:28 +0000

A friend of mine, Chinese, took a four hour nap after eating turkey for the first time. I mean, I’ve heard it can make some people sleepy, but THAT was pretty cool.

By: Kellen Parker

Kellen Parker — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:13:54 +0000

America’s is seen as a bigger deal because AMERICA FREAKING ROCKS! YEAH! GO AMERICA!

kidding. I’m probably the least patriotic American I know, after Andi perhaps.

Anyway I had to explain thanksgiving today to a chinese person, which really just turned into an attempt to describe the taste and texture of a well-cooked turkey, which in turn made me miss Thanksgiving, which is otherwise left uncelebrated in my family. But turkey is cool. So yay Thanksgiving, yay North American holidays to celebrate blah blah blah.

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:28:42 +0000

@Stephen: The Canadian inferiority complex always finds a way to rear its ugly head. One of the guiding rules of all Canadians is that they will use any excuse to differentiate themselves from Americans!!! It’s just one of the flaws in our culture I guess

@Lao Lo: I don’t think that our Thanksgiving is *that* different than the American holiday, except theirs is just seen as a bigger deal. More days off, more media attention, national parades, etc. Not all that uncommon between the differences that exist between July 1st and July 4th.