Hey someone should look into self-reported feelings of isolation in the U.S. aggregated by immigration status. When you go to the parks here in Seattle on the weekends, the picnic tables and their grills are in full use by mostly Hispanic families and Arab families. If it's true nationwide that these groups gather more than white people, it would be worth investigating. Why aren't smartphones affecting them the same way?
The answer is probably "culture", but white people used to gather, too.
My city has a community garden where folks can get a plot to cultivate, and hang out with the other gardeners there. It is almost-exclusively subscribed to by immigrant Hispanic families.
The answer to all our holiday culture wars is to detach any meaning from national days off work. In Britain they simply have a “spring bank holiday, a “summer bank holiday,” etc. On Remembrance Day, by contrast, they all go to work. Detaching meaning from days off would lower the stakes of debates over which holidays we should celebrate and how. Nobody would fight over MLK day vs. Lincoln’s birthday or Flag Day vs. Juneteenth if a day off weren’t at stake. People could just recognize both … or neither.
Also, FWIW, it’s very annoying to be scolded by the right for disrespecting “those who served” by improperly or insufficiently celebrating Memorial Day. Memorial Day does not celebrate veterans. It celebrates soldiers killed in combat. We have another holiday for veterans: Veterans Day.
And, speaking to my point above, we generally don’t get the day off for Veteran’s Day. So it’s not like it’s some giant kick in the teeth to have a national holiday that isn’t marked by a day off. That could go equally for Memorial Day or Juneteenth or Labor Day or Presidents’ Day if we used some imagination. Actually, now that I think of it, maybe our real problem is that we *like* fighting about holidays.
Only one of my families cancelled their music lessons this weekend so I guess people actually aren't doing much. I've hosted cookouts in the past and it was so much fun.
Hey someone should look into self-reported feelings of isolation in the U.S. aggregated by immigration status. When you go to the parks here in Seattle on the weekends, the picnic tables and their grills are in full use by mostly Hispanic families and Arab families. If it's true nationwide that these groups gather more than white people, it would be worth investigating. Why aren't smartphones affecting them the same way?
The answer is probably "culture", but white people used to gather, too.
My city has a community garden where folks can get a plot to cultivate, and hang out with the other gardeners there. It is almost-exclusively subscribed to by immigrant Hispanic families.
The answer to all our holiday culture wars is to detach any meaning from national days off work. In Britain they simply have a “spring bank holiday, a “summer bank holiday,” etc. On Remembrance Day, by contrast, they all go to work. Detaching meaning from days off would lower the stakes of debates over which holidays we should celebrate and how. Nobody would fight over MLK day vs. Lincoln’s birthday or Flag Day vs. Juneteenth if a day off weren’t at stake. People could just recognize both … or neither.
Also, FWIW, it’s very annoying to be scolded by the right for disrespecting “those who served” by improperly or insufficiently celebrating Memorial Day. Memorial Day does not celebrate veterans. It celebrates soldiers killed in combat. We have another holiday for veterans: Veterans Day.
And, speaking to my point above, we generally don’t get the day off for Veteran’s Day. So it’s not like it’s some giant kick in the teeth to have a national holiday that isn’t marked by a day off. That could go equally for Memorial Day or Juneteenth or Labor Day or Presidents’ Day if we used some imagination. Actually, now that I think of it, maybe our real problem is that we *like* fighting about holidays.
I DONT HAVE THE DAY OFF BECAUSE IF I DONT WORK I DONT GET PAID.
Just wanted to spread a little jealousy-based negativity.
(Have fun)
Confederates don't count towards the US veteran share any more than British or Russian or German veterans do
Only one of my families cancelled their music lessons this weekend so I guess people actually aren't doing much. I've hosted cookouts in the past and it was so much fun.