I'm Greek and have no idea what this is....
2006-11-20 05:47:50 · 6 answers · asked by Greek Chick 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks (traditionally to God) at the close of the harvest season. In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
2006-11-20 05:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by Melvin W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving is a national holiday (in the US, it's in November, in Canada, October).
Basically, it's a harvest celebration, a big feast. Traditionally people get together with their families and gorge themselves on turkey (with stuffing), mashed potatoes and gravy, and other nummy things.
The idea is thankfulness for the harvest (of enough food to get through winter), and friendship between the first European settlers in North America and the Native Americans who helped them.
Every year on Thanksgiving, the columnist Jon Carroll reprints a nice Grat Etude on the topic. You could go to his newspaper's site (in Source) and do a search on his name and Thanksgiving.
2006-11-20 14:14:53 · answer #2 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving is a holiday to be thankfull for your family and your friends. Thanksgiving is time to get togther and to share why your thankful for that person or whatever it maybe. So, it's a good hoilday for that.
2006-11-20 14:46:03 · answer #3 · answered by katie p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tjhink thanksgiving is about spending time with your family and friends. and everyone elses favorite thing about thanksgiving is the food that you eat.and the most important thing to do is to bless the food to god and stuff.I hope i am helping you out of what i think thanksgiving is about.
2006-11-20 13:59:58 · answer #4 · answered by Alicia-brandon15 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
XAIPE dear!
Well, when the pioneers went to New England and mainly to Massachusetts, they did not know how to act in the strong winter. The local Americans helped them survive the first winter by advising and feeding them. (Unfortunately, later, those pioneers killed those locals). But, nevertheless, the pioneers established the Thanksgiving celebration to commemorate their survival thanks to the locals!
2006-11-23 18:36:15 · answer #5 · answered by soubassakis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We celebrate the day the indians and the pilgrams got together in peace.
2006-11-20 13:55:37 · answer #6 · answered by SLEEPY 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋