Re: Merry Christmas & Happy new year

Captain Pedantic wrote: > <hariog@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:1135289164.033317.66640@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > Thanks every one for providing untiring assistance & contribution to > > this group through out the year. Wish you all a Merry Christmas and > > Happy New Year. Drive safely if you are traveling around. > > > > Hari > > > > I don't think you are allowed to say "Merry Christmas" to Americans. I > think you have to use a euphemism, like "Happy Holiday Season". Not quite right. Someone might say, your thinken may be wrong and may be a reflection of racism. This group is a techincal resources group for every one, not for any specific cast and religion. Pl. keep this group away from those nuisance. J

Since I really couldn't get my head around this Kwanzaa thing, I did some research. I found this rather unappetizing article: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5251 Quote: 'If the reporter had bothered to do any research into the background of the Kwanzaa founder, he might have learned about Karenga's trial earlier that year on charges of torturing two women who were members of US (United Slaves), a black nationalist cult he had founded. 'A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of them: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said."' I also struggled to get to grips with this concept of a universal African first harvest festival, since first harvests are likely to be at rather different times of the year north and south of the equator, and also the December solstice isn't really a time when anything substantial is harvested. Amusingly, I found that some countries are now officially introducing "first harvest festivals", probably with the festive idea of parting gullible African Americans from their dollars. This extract from the same article doesn't even begin to cover how unlikely it all is: "LOOK AT ANY MAP OF THE WORLD and you will see that Ghana and Kenya are on opposite sides of the continent. This brings up an obvious question about Kwanzaa: Why did Karenga use Swahili words for his fictional African feast? American blacks are primarily descended from people who came from Ghana and other parts of West Africa. Kenya and Tanzania'where Swahili is spoken'are several thousand miles away, about as far from Ghana as Los Angeles is from New York. Yet in celebrating Kwanzaa, African-Americans are supposed to employ a vocabulary of such Swahili words as "kujichagulia" and "kuumba." This makes about as much sense as having Irish-Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day by speaking Polish. One possible explanation is that Karenga was simply ignorant of African geography and history when he came up with Kwanzaa in 1966. That might explain why he would schedule a harvest festival near the solstice, a season when few fruits or vegetables are harvested anywhere." Happy Kwanzaa, indeed! -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com