The Thanksgiving story is relevant to Filipinos because as a country that has been repeatedly colonized over the past 500 years, we know about historical revisionism all too well. From being taught that the Spanish occupation's only objective was to propagate Christianity, and that the American and Japanese forces came to the Philippines to be our "friends," history has a way of sweeping colonization's greatest offenses under the rug, and people are only too eager to believe and repeat the more pleasing versions of these stories.