2006-11-18 12:00:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
It's when we, as Americans, celebrate slaughtering the natives and stealing their land by eating way too much food and getting drunk.
2006-11-18 12:02:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Fact: The first feast wasn't repeated, so it wasn't the beginning of a tradition. In fact, the colonists didn't even call the day Thanksgiving. To them, a thanksgiving was a religious holiday in which they would go to church and thank God for a specific event, such as the winning of a battle. On such a religious day, the types of recreational activities that the pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians participated in during the 1621 harvest feast--dancing, singing secular songs, playing games--wouldn't have been allowed. The feast was a secular celebration, so it never would have been considered a thanksgiving in the pilgrims minds.
Myth: The original Thanksgiving feast took place on the fourth Thursday of November.
Fact: The original feast in 1621 occurred sometime between September 21 and November 11. Unlike our modern holiday, it was three days long. The event was based on English harvest festivals, which traditionally occurred around the 29th of September. After that first harvest was completed by the Plymouth colonists, Gov. William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer, shared by all the colonists and neighboring Indians. In 1623 a day of fasting and prayer during a period of drought was changed to one of thanksgiving because the rain came during the prayers. Gradually the custom prevailed in New England of annually celebrating thanksgiving after the harvest.
During the American Revolution a yearly day of national thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress. In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom, and by the middle of the 19th century many other states had done the same. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a day of thanksgiving as the last Thursday in November, which he may have correlated it with the November 21, 1621, anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod. Since then, each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the date for Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941).
2006-11-18 20:03:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving is a holiday whose purpose is to bring family and friends together and be thankful for what we have (e.i. A shelter over our heads, the food on the table, the love in our hearts, etc.)
You get out of school/work and eat until you fall asleep from the special amino acids in the turkey meat.
Thanksgiving is awesome.
Also: Thanksgiving is NOT a religious holiday!!!
2006-11-18 20:04:24 · answer #3 · answered by Jacques 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A bogus white holiday designed to cover up the extermination of America's indigenous people.
2006-11-18 20:02:35 · answer #4 · answered by Isis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A day for all out turkey cooking and gluttony.
2006-11-18 20:02:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the piligrims got together to have a dinner and thanked god... i think
basically, ur thanking god for giving us stuff... u know... thanks givng.
2006-11-18 20:03:11 · answer #6 · answered by Jessica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time of giving thanks for everything
2006-11-18 20:04:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
duhhh.....Giving Thanks!!!
2006-11-18 20:04:59 · answer #8 · answered by cpewitte27 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its the holiday coming up this week duh
2006-11-18 20:02:19 · answer #9 · answered by Major Tom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giving thanks to God
2006-11-18 20:02:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋