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i dont understand the reasoning of this map’s color code choices
Maybe they were thinking: Red means stop (work), Green means go(to work).
Or maybe: red for communists, green for money 🤑
oh how I wish all these countries would be comunist!
The CIA would never let that happen.
Capitalism International Associates?
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Technically Austria should be yellow, as officially our “state holiday” on May 1st is on that day for no particular reason and shares its date with Labour Day by accident… though of course everybody knows that this was an excuse to make it a holiday without causing a political fight.
TIL that the May Day bank holiday is “labour day”
If they called it Labour Day, that uppity working class might think they have some kind of value.
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The yellow color of Finland is weird. We call it Vappu, or Walburgs Night, but it’s indeed a paid holiday labour day.
Doesn’t the legend say “another public holiday on May the 1st”?
My point was it’s the same thing, with local name pretty much.
TIL 1. May is an international event
In the USA, May 1 is Loyalty Day, as it has been since the McCarthy era.
Here just this morning we were talking about this at work, chat gpt answered it:
The distinction between International Workers’ Day on May 1 and Labor Day in the United States, which is celebrated on the first Monday in September, arises from historical and political reasons. While International Workers’ Day was established to commemorate the Haymarket affair and to symbolize the struggles and solidarity of the labor movement worldwide, the U.S. government chose to avoid celebrating Labor Day on May 1, partly to dissociate it from any socialist and anarchist movements that had adopted May Day as their day of celebration.
Instead, the United States adopted Labor Day as a federal holiday in 1894 following a proposal by the labor movement to honor the American worker. The choice of September was influenced by the successful first celebration of Labor Day on September 5, 1882, in New York City, organized by the Central Labor Union. This date was selected partly because it was midway between Independence Day and Thanksgiving, providing a holiday in the long gap between the two. The decision effectively provided a distinctly American identity to the holiday, focusing on celebrating the economic and social achievements of workers, separate from the more politically charged connotations of May Day.
In Canada it’s the first Monday in September.
At least Alberta, anyway.
