I had to explain thanksgiving to someone from India today...this is what I said
‘well, the colonists in the area had made a rocky peace with the native tribe. The tribe showed them how to survive through winter and taught them how to farm indigenous plants. And they had a feast after harvest to thank those who helped them....and then....we turned around...stole their land for beads...gave them small pox and scalped them for laughs”....
and she didn’t miss a fucking beat and was like...”oh...ok....happy thanksgiving”