Another One
Another yankee excuse for a holiday is upon us, Turkey Day. Giving thanks for slaughtering thousands of Native American Indians and stealing their land with all that comes with it.
All these “holidays” are ALWAYS somehow tied to consumption, the average Joe having to dig into his pocket and make expected purchases. Food in this case, gifts in a few weeks at Xmas, party stuff come New Years, Flowers and Chocolate come Valentines, eggs and bunnies come Easter, BBQ junk come Memorial Day, fireworks and more BBQ stuff come July 4th, even more BBQ stuff come Labor Day in September, Halloween costumes come October.
It just gets to be so sickening year after year. I know the entire economy is totally dependent on the public’s continuous consumption of goods and services and not just a particular industry like say Caribbean countries, but after a while you realize that 90% of your purchases are just dyam garbage. It’s bad enough that some of these “holidays” don’t even give you a day off of work, but you still have to go out and buy de dyam foolishness too?
Yes migrating to Uncle Sam land is a trade off and you do always make the effort to surround yourself with as much of your home country’s trappings as you can so as to at least try and have the best of both worlds, but sometimes you wake up and de cold lik yu and de pickney a beg fi dis and dat because her friends have it, then you wonder to yourself “Was it all worth it? What if I had stayed?”
All these “holidays” are ALWAYS somehow tied to consumption, the average Joe having to dig into his pocket and make expected purchases. Food in this case, gifts in a few weeks at Xmas, party stuff come New Years, Flowers and Chocolate come Valentines, eggs and bunnies come Easter, BBQ junk come Memorial Day, fireworks and more BBQ stuff come July 4th, even more BBQ stuff come Labor Day in September, Halloween costumes come October.
It just gets to be so sickening year after year. I know the entire economy is totally dependent on the public’s continuous consumption of goods and services and not just a particular industry like say Caribbean countries, but after a while you realize that 90% of your purchases are just dyam garbage. It’s bad enough that some of these “holidays” don’t even give you a day off of work, but you still have to go out and buy de dyam foolishness too?
Yes migrating to Uncle Sam land is a trade off and you do always make the effort to surround yourself with as much of your home country’s trappings as you can so as to at least try and have the best of both worlds, but sometimes you wake up and de cold lik yu and de pickney a beg fi dis and dat because her friends have it, then you wonder to yourself “Was it all worth it? What if I had stayed?”
posted by De Immigrant at
6:11 PM
4 Comments:
Fuh real,one setta holidays designed to take the money from the pockets. Yuh just have to decide how much you will spend.
Of course they're all built on consumption. That's how their great nation was built!
All the holidays are designed to take your money!
Mi 'ere yuh.
I ate well and had fun but I did not feel good about it! I wish I could have gone to a Native American mourning ceremony instead. I think it would have been more fitting....
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