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[โ€“] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Brazil commemorates Thanksgiving? In what bizarro world? I've never met a single person here who ever did that, in fact the vast majority of people have absolutely no clue what Thanksgiving is or that it even exists.

The author is just pulling this shit out of their asses lol.

[โ€“] dirkgentle@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It may be a USA Brazilian thing, the diaspora is quite large.

[โ€“] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe, but that's like 0.1% of the population, there aren't many American communities in Brazil. Maybe it's a thing in Americana (a town founded by ex-confederates, I shit you not), but otherwise...

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