do you think thanksgiving is stupid?

Answer 1

Are you crazy? That's the best holiday of them all.

Answer 2

The only thing stupid, is that we only do it once a year. It is an opportunity show gratitude. Gratitude by getting together with people we are grateful to have in our lives. An opportunity to show gratitude by behavior by showing up to help others enjoy a meal. An opportunity use the day alone to think quietly upon what you have to be thankful for.

Thanksgiving along with other family holidays is an opportunity to build upon the dynamics of family.

Answer 3

i think the notion of taking a day to be grateful is awesome, but most of the notions people have about the pilgrims and indians have been proven to be untrue.

this is from the manataka american indian council:

Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.

The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags.

But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.

In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.

Cheered by their "victory", the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.

Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stamford, Connecticut, the churches announced a second day of "thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the heathen savages. During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts -- where it remained on display for 24 years.

The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War -- on the same day he ordered troops to march against the starving Sioux in Minnesota.

This story doesn't have quite the same fuzzy feelings associated with it as the one where the Indians and Pilgrims are all sitting down together at the big feast. But we need to learn our true history so it won't ever be repeated.

Answer 4

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I am so glad to have my family and friends and I enjoy the cooking and food. Why would you say such a thing?

Answer 5

I think you are stupid.
Thanksgiving is a time for people to stop and think how great it is to live in America. As bad as we have it, there are still people who would die to be where we are.

I have found that many people (perhaps like you) just take what we have for granted and have no gratitude for all the positive things they have. I suggest you take your sour-puss off somewhere where the rest of us don't have to see you and let us be thankful for all the things we have and all the opportunities we have to improve our life if we don't like our current situation.

TX Guy

Answer 6

thanksgiving is about family being together and being thankful for everything they have. If you think being with family is stupid...dude I feel sorry for you!

Answer 7

Being thankful is not stupid. Being with family is not stupid. Giving is a blessing. Sometimes we have to be reminded that we need to give and be thankful.

Answer 8

No. It is an excellent chance for us to step back and appreciate our family and our fortunes in life. Plus, I really like the four-day weekend.

Answer 9

No don't you care about our history .

Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated with a large [[dinner]] shared among friends and family. In both Canada and the United States, it is an important family gathering, and people often travel long distances to be with relatives for the celebration. The Thanksgiving holiday is often a "four-day weekend" in the United States, in which Americans are given the relevant Thursday and Friday off. Thanksgiving is usually celebrated almost entirely at home, unlike the [[Fourth of July]] or [[Christmas]], which are associated with a variety of shared public experiences (fireworks, caroling, etc.). In Canada, it is a three-day weekend, as Thanksgiving is observed on the second Monday of October every year.

In the [[Northeastern United States]], the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving is the one of the busiest nights of the year for bars and pubs, as it is the first night back to their hometowns for many college students returning from the semester.

In [[New York City]], the [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]] is held annually every Thanksgiving Day in Midtown Manhattan. The parade features moving stands (also known as "floats") with specific themes, scenes from Broadway plays, large balloons of cartoon characters and TV personalities, and high school marching bands. It always ends with the image of [[Santa Claus]] passing the reviewing stand. Thanksgiving parades also occur in many other cities such as Plymouth, Houston, Philadelphia (which claims the oldest parade), and Detroit (where it is the only major parade of the year). Within the [[New York]] metropolitan area, the city of [[Stamford]], [[Connecticut]] holds an alternative parade to the Macy's parade (with different characters on the balloons) the Sunday before Thanksgiving that has attracted over 250,000 people in recent years. Because of the earlier date, Santa Claus parades in Canada do not fall on Thanksgiving; the only major parade on that day in Canada is the [[Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest|Oktoberfest]] parade in [[Kitchener-Waterloo]].

The North American holiday season (generally the Christmas shopping season in the U.S.) traditionally begins when Thanksgiving ends, on "[[Black Friday (shopping)|Black Friday]]" (the day after Thanksgiving); this tradition has held forth since at least the 1930s. While the biggest day of shopping of the year in the U.S., as measured by customer traffic, is still the Friday after Thanksgiving (the biggest by sales volume is either the Saturday before Christmas or [[December 23]]), most shops start to stock for and promote the December holidays immediately after [[Halloween]], and sometimes even before. Many Americans are uncomfortable with the ever-longer shopping season and try to put more "thanks" into Thanksgiving, whatever that means for them. The Friday after Thanksgiving is also known as [[Buy Nothing Day]] where protesters do not purchase anything to protest the wasteful consumption habits of First World countries.

[[American football]] is often a major part of Thanksgiving celebrations in the U.S. and likewise [[Canadian football]] in [[Canada]]. Professional games are traditionally played on Thanksgiving Day in both countries; until recently in the U.S., these were the only games played during the week apart from Sunday or Monday night. In Canada, these are the only games played on a Monday except for the [[Labour Day]] classic, and on the [[Civic Holiday]]. The [[Detroit Lions]] of the American [[National Football League]] have hosted a game every Thanksgiving Day since 1934, with the exception of 1939–1944 (due to [[World War II]]). The [[Dallas Cowboys]] have hosted every Thanksgiving Day since 1966, with the exception of 1975 and 1977 when the then-[[Arizona Cardinals|St. Louis Cardinals]] hosted. The [[Kansas City Chiefs]] hosted games during their days in the [[American Football League]], and will revive that tradition in 2006 when they host the [[Denver Broncos]] on Thanksgiving. Additionally, many college and high school football games are played over Thanksgiving weekend, often between regional or historic rivals.

U.S. tradition associates the holiday with a meal held in 1621 by the [[Wampanoag]] and the [[Pilgrims]] who settled in [[Plymouth Colony|Plymouth, Massachusetts]]. Some of the details of the American Thanksgiving story are [[Mythology|myth]]s that developed in the 1890s and early 1900s as part of the effort to forge a common national identity in the aftermath of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and in the [[melting pot]] of new immigrants.

In Canada, Thanksgiving is a three-day weekend (although some provinces choose to observe a four day weekend, Friday–Monday). While the actual Thanksgiving holiday is on a Monday, Canadians might eat their Thanksgiving meal on any day of that three day weekend. This often means celebrating a meal with one group of relatives on one day, and another meal with a different group of relatives on another day. Though Canadian Thanksgiving is often celebrated with family it is also often a time for weekend getaways for couples to observe the fall leaves, the last weekend at the cottage or involves various outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing and hunting.

Answer 10

No. I am thankful for all the blessings I have received and think it is a great holiday to celebrate with family and friends and to give thanks to God from whom those blessings came!