Q: What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you celebrate it?
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Q: What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you celebrate it?
My Wi-Fi, it's gone out . . .
We always go to my aunt's house for dinner and drinks then we go shopping. I never want to go shopping but I can't pass up those great game deals.
Most likely going to my mother's house.
I think "Turkey Day" would be a better name for the holiday, because Native American's are NOT thankful for the beginning of the European invasion into their country.
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I waited too long to get tickets to fly to family, so I will probably just get a turkey dinner somewhere else.
Oh, and watch anime.
Or go to a movie.
So funny enough,
I am actually Native American and our family does celebrate Thanksgiving. That may be due to the fact I am married to the white man. (I know foreshame.)
However, I think we see it a little differently. More of a harvest celebration and as a expression of the crops we introduced to the rest of the world. Corn, Turkeys, Pumpkins, Potatoes, squash, ect are all native to the Americas and were introduced Eurasia and Africa during the Columbia exchange. The high caloric value of the crops made it easier to sustain population growth and to combat famine in other parts of the world. We really don't see it as an embrace of the Europeans and Natives joining in unity. To us it's more of a cultural harvest festival.
Actually, at the first Thanksgiving they did not eat turkey. They had deer. I don't eat deer. I keep thinking of Bambi. And since Bambi was male, why the female name?
The Pilgrims got the basic idea of a festival of thanks during the harvest festival from the Bible. Thanksgiving is loosely based on the Jewish holiday of Succot, aka the Festival of Booths. But it did not become an American holiday until Abraham Lincoln declared it in 1862 or 1863. I forget which. The idea was in a time of crises; i.e., the Civil War; Americans not knowing if their country would survive or not should still give thanks for their blessings. Lincoln left the religious part rather generic, since he himself did not believe in organized religion, and although he did believe in God and read the Bible for inspiration, he did not take it literally and did not accept the Christian concept of God.
I have no idea why I am writing all this, other than maybe it is because I just finished drinking a bit of wine. Don't drink and post at the same time.
We usually have a family meal, but this year we are going to Dollywood!
Nope, what's that?
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I would love to celebrate it the food looks amazing but feelsbad man im from the UK
Yes we do, spending it with the whole family
I cheated.
Translation: I had a Thanksgiving dinner ahead of time.
I'll let myself out.
My Wi-Fi, it's gone out . . .
This just in. I may have to take advantage of the day off to do some yard work. For some reason, it does not get done on its own.
Feed your cat!
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