Update on my tradition slides with extra Thanksgiving.

1. Tradition

2. Thanksgiving

3. Unique American tradition

4. Although Canadians have Thanksgiving

5. 2nd Monday in October

6. America: 4th Thursday in November

7. Turkey

8. Turkey Day

9. Always on a Thursday

10. Harvest Festival

11. Be grateful for food

12. Harvest Festivals in Europe …

13. … Autumn Equinox

14. Between Summer and Winter

15. America: 4th Thursday in November

16. Why is Thanksgiving big in America?

17. Pilgrim Fathers

18. Pilgrims

19. Japanese Pilgrims

20. Japanese Pilgrim

21. On the Mayflower: Puritans

22. Wanted Religious freedom

23. Looking for signs

24. Signs of superiority

25. Signs that you will go to heaven

26. Make money and go to heaven

27. True Grit: Bible
• “The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but
the righteous are bold as a lion” Proverbs 28:1

28. God’s Law and Human’s Law

29. Pilgrim Fathers: God’s Law on earth

30. New England: not an easy place to live

31. Native Americans had been there
30,000 years!

32. Native Americans were not so
unfriendly!

33. Some spoke a little English!

34. Learned from English fishermen

35. One Native American spoke very good
English!

36. Squanto: kidnapped and taken to
London!

37. Spoke great English!

38. Gave a lot of advice and help to the
English settlers

39. Pretty amazing coincidence!

40. Maybe America is English-speaking
because of Squanto!

41. Settlers didn’t learn native American
language

42. Only a few native words borrowed
early on

43. But they WERE grateful to the native
Americans

44. The natives helped them

45. The natives taught them how to grow
food

46. The early settlers WOULD have died

47. So Thanksgiving …

48. Giving thanks …

49. … to the Native Americans

50. Perhaps we should ALSO remember …

51. The population had dropped
dramatically

52. Because of diseases

53. Disease brought by foreigners!

54. So the natives NEEDED immigrants

55. Remember what I said about
immigration last week ?

56. Anyway – more on traditions

57. I’m from Wales

58. We’re a very small country

59. Less than 3 million people

60. But we’re VERY proud of it

61. To the point of madness

62. We’re proud of our traditions

63. We have lots of traditions

64. We are an ancient country

65. Ancient language

66. Ancient traditions

67. Sometimes strange

68. Sometimes harmless

69. Sometimes very strange

70. Two symbols of Wales

71. Daffodil and Leek

72. Yes, leek

73. Special tradition in Wales

74. St. David’s Day

75. March 1st

76. Kids dress up at school

77. Do strange stuff

78. Notice the leek

79. Yes, leek

80. We have funny competitions at school

81. Singing, drama, speech etc.

82. Here’s my old school

83. Yes – actually my old school

84. Hogwarts

85. That’s a lie

86. Not Hogwarts

87. Not very exciting

88. I hated it

89. But on St. David’s Day ….

90. … we had competitions

91. We actually had 4 School Houses!

92. Just like Harry Potter!

93. I was in Hufflepuff

94. Sorry, that’s a lie!

95. Different Houses
• Cadoc
• Baruc
• Illtyd
• Dyfan
• I was in Cadoc
• Not Hufflepuff

96. And sometimes people wore leeks

97. Yes, leeks

98. Obvious problem – bad smell

99. It stinks

100. Obvious question
• Is it OK to be anti-social …
• … if it’s traditional?

101. Another example

102. Bonfire night

103. A very British tradition

104. ONLY Britain!!

105. No one else!!!

106. Remember, remember the 5th of
November

107. • Remember, remember, the 5th of November
• The Gunpowder Treason and plot
• I see of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
• Should ever be forgot

108. Gunpowder plot?

109. These guys

110. One most famous guy

111. His name is actually Guy

112. Guy (Guido) Fawkes

113. Iconic terrorist

114. Iconic gesture of protest

115. A Catholic terrorist

116. Tried to blow up the Houses of
Parliament

117. Blow up THIS!

118. He should have blown up this!

119. They wanted to kill the King!

120. They wanted a Catholic King or Queen!

121. Here they are

122. Gunpowder

123. In the basement! 1605

124. They failed

125. They were captured

126. And they were punished

127. Executed

128. In very very nasty ways

129. Head chopped off was the nice bit

130. After 1605, there was a new law
• Give thanks to God for stopping the Catholics
• Church bells ringing
• (and lighting fires is OK)
• (as long as you are careful)

131. People didn’t really care about the
bells
• They liked the bonfires
• Much more fun
• And they kept doing it
• Every year
• In 1859, the government said STOP
• But people kept doing it anyway
• The fires – not the bells!

132. So what’s important?

133. Anti-Catholic tradition?

134. Or the fires?

135. People burned effigies

136. Sometimes the Pope

137. Or Guy Fawkes

138. But anything is OK

139. Kids do this

140. Penny for the Guy

141. And interestingly …

142. It seems British people have ALWAYS
done this

143. Halloween fires

144. End of October

145. Beginning of November

146. Some people even do this NOW!

147. Although they may be crazy!

148. I don’t know

149. Welcome the spirits of the dead

150. Traditionally with HUMAN sacrifice

151. Of course, this is NOT OK now

152. But how about this?

153. Openly hostile to Catholics?!

154. Is that OK?

155. Just because it’s a tradition?

156. How about Japan?

157. Any traditions that people find
offensive?

158. Any traditional practices causing
problems?

159. Stick to tradition

160. It’s Japanese culture!

161. I know it’s culture

162. Everything is culture

163. Who will suffer most when this has
gone?

164. 80% consumed in Japan

165. Stocks are down 94%

166. Is it really tradition?

167. Or is it lack of control?

168. I think this is lack of control

169. Lack of control

170. Without control ….

171. … you probably lose your traditions,
anyway