this holiday is representative of a celebration of a genocide of people? This is the one day out of the year that I decide to fast for the day. Is everyone too concerned about getting "their eat on" than to really look at the true meaning of the "holiday"?
2006-11-27 04:25:24 · 14 answers · asked by texaudi420 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
I don't believe that pilgrims and native americans actually sat down and had a meal together, either. Pilgrims looked at them as savages, while native americans viewed pilgrims as intruders. But yet they sat down together for a meal? Was it meal to kick off the ensuing genocide?
2006-11-27 04:36:43 · update #1
as a native person i find it quite ironic sometimes.. :)
but all holidays seem to have lost their true meaning
2006-11-27 04:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I understand your frustration. Americans are notorious for turning holidays into commercialized fiascoes. Look what we did to Christmas!!!
I have no idea what it is that we're celebrating to be honest, but I LOVE the food!!!!
Just a note for some of the others in the answer blog...Thanksgiving is NOT a religious holiday. If it was, it would be celebrated by Christians worldwide...but it isn't. It's a national holiday celebrated only in the U.S. and marks the first supposed feast enjoyed by the Pilgrims and the Indians.
2006-11-27 15:04:41 · answer #2 · answered by catlynn_cabral 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not the only one that thinks that but you are wrong. Thanksgiving was not a holiday until 200 years after the Pilgrims arrived and it has little to do with them.
2006-11-27 13:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by KathyS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving is a day of thanks- for the abundance we share and for family and friends.
The holiday was established by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt made it a legal holiday in order to help the retail industry at Christmastime. (this was during the Great Depression).
As for it being a celebration of genocide, you're well off the mark.
Too bad you missed an opportunity to thank your friends and family for their involvement in your life.
2006-11-27 12:45:47 · answer #4 · answered by Malika 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm Irish mate, and to be honest its a travesty that well-equiped confederates or whatever they're blinking called shot and cannoned 100s of thousands of innocent native Indians and reckon that the end-product, namely the Americas, ought to be theres on the basis of bloodthirsty war-mongering and widespread indignation. As for the present administration and the few before this its a bit rich for them to think that they should point out where in the world such horribleness should'nt take place when there own tubid nation was fought for on the backs of the purely innocent.......
2006-11-27 12:37:17 · answer #5 · answered by RobLough 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Meaning of Thanksgiving to to THANK GOD for all our Blessings that He has bestowed up on us for the year. That was the purpose of the 1st Thanksgiving. People who left tyranny and began a new life and had much to be thankful for! As with many holidays the true spirit and meanings are lost over time.
2006-11-27 12:32:06 · answer #6 · answered by TaylorProud 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving isn't about celebrating genocide.
If America wanted to celebrate genocide, we wouldn't have picked the great feast as the day to remember. We would have picked the first day of bloodshed.
Having your perspective on Thanksgiving is the same as looking at Christmas as the unwanted spread of Christianity.
2006-11-27 12:38:39 · answer #7 · answered by Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it's not. We can eat anytime. That isn't what it's about. The holiday wasn't even thought of at that time. It is a day to reflect on all that you have to be thankful for....yes even you who choose to heap scorn upon it should be thankful for the fact that you live in a country where you have the freedom to be misguided and bitter and express yourself accordingly.
Why not give time at a soup kitchen, serving others who are less fortunate than yourself on Thanksgiving? Perhaps you are too afraid to have your attitude adjusted?
2006-11-27 14:38:23 · answer #8 · answered by Sweet Mystery of Life 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true. We're celebrating stealing land from people and killing them off.
Oooh, but a nice turkey meal with all the fixins should help brainwash everyone into believing we're thankful for having one another in OUR nation.
2006-11-27 12:29:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The true meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday is to give thanks to God for the bountiful food the Earth provides to us. It is a time of celebration with family and friends. I love the holiday.
2006-11-27 12:28:01 · answer #10 · answered by kja63 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋