http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2010/11/thanksgiving-kugel-and-cornbread-stuffing/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2010/11/thanksgiving-kugel-and-cornbread-stuffing/comment-page-1/#comment-2232 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:11:10 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=975#comment-2232 Your post made me think what a pity it is that we do not have such a holiday over here in Germany. Communities do not share each other’s holidays much, nor do they even know what a holiday means. Of course, Christmas is dominant and families with another religious background often celebrate a secularized version of it, but that is of course nothing like a shared celebration across religious and cultural lines.
Recently, my daughter’s public school was closed, pragmatically, one day for Kurban Bayram. The school is officially not allowed to close, but since about 60 % of the students will not show up, teachers use it for internal training. Maybe because of this half-legal solution, or for other reasons, the non-Muslim kids did not learn anything about their peers’ holiday.
I believe such small moments in our day-to-day life tell a lot about a society’s approach to the construction of a common (or less common) identity.

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