Uproar over Thanksgiving candies as Chinese university says it does not promote ‘Western holidays with religious connotations’

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On Thursday, according to screenshots shared online, an employee at the Harbin Institute of Technology in northeastern China wrote on the popular WeChat platform: “Today is Thanksgiving in the West and I’d like use occasion to thank students of Dorm No. 17 for supporting my work.” “Starting at 7:50 a.m. in the morning, I will be handing out candies in the lobby,” the woman, surnamed Wang, added, along with two photos of a box of chocolate candies. This offer was met with a barrage of insults from one student, who accused her of being “inappropriate” by propagating “these kinds of...