Thanksgiving?Doubts
By vaishnavi :)
@vaishu0106 (968)
November 24, 2016 1:38am CST
Hello myLotters..Hope you all are doing good..
Well,I know today is thanksgiving day.But in India we are working normaly,no celebration nothing ,I guess many of them dont even know today is Thanksgiving day.
I have been seeing discussion in mylot about thanksgiving and I googled to know more about thanksgiving day and google gave me different origin and different stories.
Now I am very keen to know about Thanksgiving day.There are many question like
When it started?
Who started it?
Who celebrates it?
Why turkey?
So much of questions
And how you gonna celebrate it?
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6 responses
@CaptAlbertWhisker (32695)
• Calgary, Alberta
24 Nov 16
Native Americans Mourn during the day of Thanks giving. They see it as a celebration of their genocide:
We invited Native Americans to respond to the word "Thanksgiving." These are their responses. For licensing and media inquiries, go to http://www.cut.com/lic...
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32695)
• Calgary, Alberta
24 Nov 16
@vaishu0106 The fairy tale is the Natives welcomed the Europeans with Open arms and celebrated with a delicious dinner.
Sounds like a sweet story right? That is when Thanks giving became a tradition....
Well 15 years after the first thanks giving, Many Natives got massacred. I am not sure I will enjoy eating Turkey and Apple pie on a Holiday like that.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32695)
• Calgary, Alberta
24 Nov 16
@vaishu0106 @vaishu0106 You have no reaction from it's dark history?
@lovelyironady (80)
• Guangzhou, China
24 Nov 16
it's a celebrated day in North Ameica country--US and Canada, about the Indian The Ameircan original inhabitants help Americans to plant food, and survived in the winter..
I only remember this
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@lovelyironady (80)
• Guangzhou, China
24 Nov 16
@vaishu0106 it's not a special day for Chinese.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
24 Nov 16
First lets start with some history Pilgrims and natives celebrated the harvest, which lasted three days in 1621. Next celebrated 1676 in Massachusetts, then 1777 all 13 colonies celebrated, but these dates were,'t the official celebrates. George Washington made it a National Holiday in 1789 and Lincoln made it the last Thursday of November in 1863. Congress made it a legal holiday in 1941.
The meaning of Thanksgiving has changed over the years and in a family. I celebrate by giving thanks for the food in front of me and the joy I have to be able to sit down to a meal with friends and family. People have added their customs, gratitude for survival, defeat over the British, submission of the local natives are some of what has been celebrated over the years.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone that celebrates the day. May we all have plenty to eat and a happy day.
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@garymarsh6 (23405)
• United Kingdom
26 Nov 16
This Thanksgiving is an American celebration for the success of the harvest and probably had a religious connotation thanking God for their harvest. A time for families to get together to celebrate and be grateful. It is not celebrating the defeat of the British that is celebrated on Independence day! So for us we do not celebrate it here in the UK but have our own harvest festivals where food is donated to the church and distributed to the elderly or needy normally in September time.
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@garymarsh6 (23405)
• United Kingdom
26 Nov 16
@vaishu0106 Only the harvest festival in September but we also get to celebrate Vaisakhi festival as well as there is a very large Sikh community in my town with a very large procession through the town with a parade, dancing and singing. It is very colourful and a great afternoon usually around Easter time!
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