[Xmca-l] Re: Congratulations Men

[Andy Blunden]

IN his book on teaching deaf/blind kids, A. Meshcheryakov 
says they used teh celebration of national holidays as a way 
of imparting a sense of time.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
On 9/11/2015 12:17 PM, Huw Lloyd wrote:
> I don't know.  The best thing that I can think of that is 
> consonant with the media of 'a day' is the recognition of 
> the cultural notion of time.   Putting it in that context, 
> is does seem the case that some of long-standing holy-days 
> do implicate certain constants (relative to our cultures 
> and their histories), e.g. the equinoctes.
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> Generally I have an aversion to such artifices as 
> celebratory days, but I think I might participate in 
> something like a children's day, thereby encouraging some 
> reflection on at least a generational timescale in 
> contrast to the 24hour/5year media-politicking.
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> Best,
> Huw
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> On 9 November 2015 at 00:55, Andy Blunden 
> <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
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>     I think the point is that holidays have *always* been
>     fixed to reinforce the normative order. The only
>     exception I know is May Day, which is not a holiday
>     here in Oz.
>     Andy
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>     *Andy Blunden*
>     http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>     <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
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>     On 9/11/2015 11:51 AM, mike cole wrote:
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>         Dear Colleagues -Here is the latest word on
>         International Mens day and its
>         presence in the United States thanks to a hint
>         about checking Wikipedia:
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>         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men%27s_Day.
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>         Is it just me, or does anyone out there think that
>         some thought should be
>         giving to gender neutral holidays instead of the
>         normative order? For
>         example, how about a Parents Day and a
>         Grandparents day. With time off and
>         a little family time, whatever that family might be.
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>         mike
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>         On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Hans Knutagård
>         <hans.knutagard@ingressus.se
>         <mailto:hans.knutagard@ingressus.se>
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>             wrote:
>             In Sweden we celebrate Fathers day evry year
>             the Sunday in November
>             between the 8 and 14. It started 1931 as a
>             respons to Mother's day in May
>             (in Sweden).
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>                 8 nov. 2015 kl. 20:58 skrev Rauno Huttunen
>                 <rakahu@utu.fi <mailto:rakahu@utu.fi>>:
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>                 Hello,
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>                 In Finland it is Father's Day.
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>                 Rauno Huttunen
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>                 Lähetetty iPadista
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>                     mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu
>                     <mailto:mcole@ucsd.edu>> kirjoitti
>                     8.11.2015 kello 21.37:
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>                     I have learned from my Russian
>                     colleagues that today is the
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>             International
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>                     Day honoring Men, which I am told is
>                     celebrated in 70 countries
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>             including
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>                     the US (Wikipedia so testifies). But I
>                     have never heard of it! Just me,
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>             or
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>                     is this
>                     not a generally recognized holiday in
>                     the U.S.?
>                     mike
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>                     --
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>                     It is the dilemma of psychology to
>                     deal as a natural science with an
>                     object that creates history. Ernst Boesch
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