Happy Thanksgiving

Happy holidays make happy people. Have a good time on thanksgiving edeb8'ers.
Missing out on a great colonial esque holiday my people from NZ.

Blackflag: We've got our own holidays from our colonial days. Waitangi Day for example.

admin: And Guy Fawkes!

admin: Hmm, probably Maori related. Is it exclusive to New Zealand, or could I see it if I went to Hawaii or something?

Blackflag: Waitangi was the scene of the initial signing of what is generally considered our "founding document", the Treaty of Waitangi. It's the equivalent of your independence day.

admin: Oh, oddly enough I actually heard that before. My memory is waning on me

admin: Although it's a treaty between the indigenous peoples and the pakeha, so I would rank it far higher than most other countries "founding documents".

sea_shell: Then again it was exceptionally vaguely written, horribly translated, produced in dozens of inconsistent versions, declared a nullity by our courts a couple of years later, indirectly leading to war, leading to protest that continues to this day...

I mean, don't get me wrong, it was a nice try, and certainly a better attempt than most countries, I just felt like your post was missing a rather important bit of context in that nobody really knew what it meant and almost everybody immediately dishonored it anyway.

admin: For sure, there has been a lot of dishonouring, but the fact that we have it puts us above other colonised countries. The fact that tangata whenua have a leg to stand on is a good thing to me. I wish that all NZers were properly educated on it (I'm doing my bit), but even if they're not, that reflects on them and their ignorance, not on te Tiriti o Waitangi. There is a reason it's studied all overy the world in sociology classes.