2007-11-13 07:54:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
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In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 to celebrate a successful harvest in the new land.
Canadian Thanksgiving Day: Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. In Canada, Thanksgiving is a three-day weekend and celebrated mainly on the second Monday in October.
Also known as the Korean Thanksgiving, Chusok is held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, during the harvest season. Harvest crops are attributed to the blessing of ancestors. Thus, Korean families take this time to thank their ancestors for.
In Israel, the harvest festival is called Succoth or Sukkot. The celebration lasts for seven days. Succoth is a Biblical pilgrimage festival that occurs in autumn on the 15th day of the month of Tishri (late September to late October). The festival is also known as the Feast of Booths or Feast of Tabernacles, as Jewish families build outdoor booths during the Succoth celebration.
Pongal is a popular harvest festival in South India. It is also known as the “Rice Harvest Festival”. Families take this time to thank all those who have contributed to a successful harvest -- including the gods, the sun and the cattle.
The Yam Festival is usually held in the beginning of August at the end of the rainy season. The celebration starts in the beginning of August at the end of the rainy season. A popular holiday in Ghana and Nigeria, the Yam Festival is named after the most common food that goes by the same name in many African countries.
2007-11-13 07:58:32 · answer #1 · answered by ngcstudent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving isn't only in america. Its celebrated as a Harvest/Thanksgiving festival all over the world. Its not always called Thanksgiving. And most countries and societies it is longer than one day event.
2007-11-13 08:08:14 · answer #2 · answered by Ryan W 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer to your question is a little confusing for some. The basis to Thanksgiving in America are unrelated to the other Thanksgiving holidays. The reason it is unrelated is because Thanksgiving was to celebrate the co mingling and help the native Americans gave to the Pilgrims. By showing them how to make a crop live long enough to be fruit full. So in Essenes thanksgiving is only an American holiday.
Their are similar but unrelated holidays in several countries in and around the same time. Because there are lots of harvest holidays to give thanks to gods and goddesses for a good harvest.
2007-11-13 09:02:41 · answer #3 · answered by hormoth 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Thanksgiving is an American holiday. Canada has adopted it (and celebrate it a month earlier). With Americans and Canadians living all over the world, I am sure it is celebrated where ever they happen to live. As the previous poster has pointed out, other countries have harvest festivals.
2007-11-13 08:01:04 · answer #4 · answered by AlwaysOverPack 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And? So we are to base elections on what a 17 november thinks? i don't care what Terrorists, English, Swedes, chinese language, Vietnamese, or the Dalai Lama thinks. P.S. the pro-war factions in the U. S. gained out in those elections. How'd that total Vietnamese war element artwork out?
2016-09-29 04:24:16 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many cultures around the world have some sort of holiday or festival involving "giving of thanks", be it to society, God/gods, etc.
But Thanksgiving in the Western sense pertaining to the early European settlers to the New World is a distinctly North American holiday.
2007-11-13 11:05:10 · answer #6 · answered by soupisgoodfood 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I believe Canada has it too, but on a different day.
2007-11-13 08:21:31 · answer #7 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋