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Welcome to the Aid is the English podcast.
My name is Jack and today I'm here with my co -host Sochal.
And Sochal, today we're going to do another Culture Corner episode.
And one of our students said, Jack and Sochal, can you tell us about the festivals in the USA?
And I think when they say festivals, they mean holidays, like federal holidays in the United States.
And this person writes, I know that Christmas and Halloween are festivals and Halloween is actually not a federal holiday.
That's the kind of funny thing.
Christmas is, but Halloween is more of a cultural holiday, but it's not, it's not a federal holiday.
Are there any other famous festivals in America.
And I thought, let me just tell our students about, I thought we could just share with our students what the actual federal holidays are.
And then just let me, before I hand it over to you, I'm just going to tell our students that holidays like Halloween and Valentine's Day are widely celebrated, but they are not federal holidays, meaning the government buildings will not close on on valentine's day or on halloween um everyone goes to
school everyone goes to work on those days but then we just celebrate it because it's a cultural holiday um but the list that i have for you right now that we're going to go through these are federal holidays meaning government buildings shut down schools close um you know it's it's an it's an actually
uh it's an actual recognized holiday by the the government so the first one we can pass right over that's new year's day january 1st and we've already talked about that on this uh podcast um but the next holiday is the third monday in january social what is what holiday is the third monday in january
mlk day yes martin luther king jr day and who was martin luther king jr martin luther king jr as we all learned from elementary school um was a black african -american activist um that basically he's famous for his i have a dream speech and his activism that promoted equality amongst the races because there
were things called Jim Crow laws and other laws that treated black people as secondhand citizens in the United States and prevented them from using the same establishments as white people and even the same drinking fountains, the same seats on the bus.
And yeah, they were essentially treated as secondhand citizens and Martin Luther King protested that absolutely and one other thing is uh i would add is uh uh non -violent civil disobedience that was the uh that that was the the uh the ideology that he believed in the gandhi approach right where you
you sit down you don't fight back and you you know even when they're attack dogs or you spraying water or hitting you with a billy club you know the police hitting them with billy clubs you don't fight back he believed in non -violent civil disobedience and uh and that was i think uh one of the reasons
why it was so effective is because when you watch the news you see these african -american people are just getting beaten up for no reason other than being black You know, and what is their crime?
The crime was they were they went to a restaurant.
Oh, it's a whites only restaurant.
Well, you know, that's stupid.
So, yeah, a great, a great man who deserves his own day.
Social third Monday in February.
third Monday in February oh it's president's day hey you got it there you go yeah I googled it to be fair oh no it's okay yeah you didn't have to share that with us i thought for the sake of transparency okay okay okay right right you're an honest uh honest person uh yeah and president's day is just
we celebrate um our past presidents i mean that's it right um yeah but i guess no one does anything for this mlk day people are still like talk about it and stuff but president's day is it's just and maybe when you're a really little kid like they read a book um about President's Day and you learn about the former
presidents but that's like when you're in kindergarten and after that there's pretty much nothing I would say I don't think I've ever spent a moment really thinking about former presidents um the uh the only thing I I probably enjoyed was uh going out on on Sunday night with my friends because I knew
I didn't have to wake up on monday morning so yep that's it's about it's about as much thought as i put into president's day um i agree the last monday in may uh last monday in may uh is veterans day or labor day sorry memorial day no I was so close those all blur together I get those all jumbled up
too right memorials day labor day veterans day yeah does celebrate our veterans who have passed on correct yes that's right fallen soldiers right those who have died in in in while performing duties you know as uh soldiers um yeah you know our lost soldiers you know um july 4th july 4th um fourth of july
independence day yeah yeah independence day right i said july 4th you had to think about it and if i say the 4th of july you're like to be fair i've never celebrated the fourth of July ever.
Um, because my family, uh, growing up, we were always in Mexico during fourth of July because my dad would get long summer holidays cause he's a professor.
Um, and we would go at the beginning of the summer holiday to Mexico.
Um, and we would spend the whole time there until August until school was going to start again.
Um, and so I was never in the U S for fourth of July.
So I never celebrated it.
Yes. That's a, that's a really good the good point and uh i bet you there are several holidays in mexico that you probably associate with the summer yes yeah yeah okay so yeah fourth of july um you know what what how do we celebrate it it's it's very much like um uh family gets together or sometimes
friends and you barbecue you know hot dogs hamburgers potato chips um if you're in my family they don't drink alcohol we would drink soda but in other families uh lots of like beer you know bud light or miller light you know those kinds of like cans of beer and um in the evening then there would be
a big fireworks uh display at the local park and so you would go see the fireworks and uh you know it's a it's a fun a fun day a fun fun time i i enjoyed the fourth of july um social first monday in september first monday in september uh i believe that one is labor day right right and what does that celebrate
too i'm trying to think i mean is it i mean it's it's is it just for workers like recognition of workers yeah um I believe um my dad has a better understanding of this than I remember he used to tell me but it's I guess it's um labor activists push for a federal holiday to recognize the many contributions
workers have made to America's strength prosperity and well -being um but I believe we got like ripped off in comparison to other countries or something because there's like something we had a strong we there's all these the labor fights like the workers rights and workers fights you know child labor laws
and things like that come out of the 1920s the early 1900s and then that lasted up through you know after world war ii and into the 1970s but in the last 40 years a lot of those labor rights have just been chipped away slowly.
And there's actually a new kind of resurgence right now of labor, of workers fighting for better pay, better benefits and things like that.
So right now in America, we're at a real, what we would call, this is a big word for everybody, inflection point.
It's like a turning point for, for workers in America.
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Just starting right now, again, after a long 40 years of losing a lot of workers' rights.
Yes, because we have no, our federal minimum wage has stalled over those years.
it's still $7 .25. Most places will hire at $15 an hour -ish nowadays, but if you go to the grocery store, a pack of two chicken breasts is $15 something.
Yeah, $15 an hour means nothing now.
It's the same as it's pennies, you know, with inflation.
A pack of Charmin toilet paper is like $16, so it's like you work for an hour, you don't even have enough to buy toilet paper.
you have to steal it from work you know yeah you don't even have enough to wipe your butt after an hour of work though it's criminal how bad um it's gone yeah and so anyway without getting too off topic but labor day was made um to celebrate workers but um it seems like the unrest is coming back again so hopefully
we'll get better benefits soon yep yep the fight continues um second monday in october second monday in october veterans day no columbus day this one is very this is a scandalous one because you know sorry go ahead so no you go ahead because tell us about columbus what kind of guy columbus was a scammer
basically um and he was a violator of human rights and he was a killer um that's the nicest way the violator of human rights is the nicest way i've ever heard someone describe it well there are children listening to the podcast yeah that's true he was a violent uh yeah yeah he was a scumbag i can say
that much um which is just someone who is a scum of the earth low person um and he basically he had a bunch of criminals on the ship with him because that's the only people they would send because um at the time they believed in the flat earth theory which meant that you would um sail the ship off the end
of the earth and die um so i don't is that true or is that is that um a kind of a a myth because i my understanding was that by the time columbus sailed they they understood that the earth was was was round was a globe uh essentially um okay but I I did learn that I learned that when I was in elementary
school that they that Columbus thought the earth was flat but I my understanding is that that actually is a a common uh uh miss call but yeah but anyway it doesn't matter it doesn't matter I could I could believe that no no it's fine um the only thing is that I was using that as like
