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What's the first
thing that comes to mind when NRI think of Thanksgiving?
Los Angles, Nov. 21, 006
Gary Singh
What's the first thing that comes to mind
when NRI think of
Thanksgiving? to see family
What's the first thing that comes to mind
when American think
of Thanksgiving? Turkey, shopping and meet
friends or family
More than 46 million of the birds (turkyes)
were to be eaten during Thanksgiving day on
Thursday. At the White House, US President George W Bush granted
a traditional Thanksgiving "pardon" to two turkeys who
were spared slaughter and given a caged life at Disneyland instead.
Millions of travellers clogged US airports, highways and trains
on Wednesday nationwide to attend a family turkey dinner of Black
Friday is a day after Thanksgiving day- a day of sales when merchants
move into the black, or start making a profit for the year. Major
retailers trumpeted Thanksgiving discounts and planned to open early
Friday.
To close
of the harvest season, this is an annual one day holiday to give
thanks all people
- Thanksgiving Day or Thanksgiving, is celebrated
on the fourth Thursday of November in USA
- Thanksgiving Day or Thanksgiving, is celebrated
on the second Monday in October in Canada
- In UK, it is not thought of as a major event as compared to
Christmas or Easter
USA
Thanksgiving Day or Thanksgiving is major event
in USA, brought to North America by early settlers. Thanksgiving
meals for dinner includes sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, Indian
corn vegetables, pumpkin pie stuffing and turkey. Some times it
is also called "Turkey Day". Families and friends usually
gather for a dinner.
Thanksgiving is almost a long week-end and one of
the busiest travel time of the year. Thanksgiving parades also occur
in many cities of the country- Houston, Philadelphia , Plymouth,
and Detroit . The Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade is held annually every Thanksgiving Day in Midtown Manhattan,
New York. It includes large balloons of cartoon characters and TV
personalities.
- The biggest day of shopping of the year in the U.S., as measured
by customer traffic, is still the Friday after Thanksgiving
- It is one of the busiest travel time of the year
- The American winter holiday season traditionally begins when
Thanksgiving ends
- American football is often a major part of Thanksgiving celebrations
in the U.S. and likewise Canadian football in Canada
- In America, the tradition is referred to as the Thanksgiving
Classic. The Detroit Lions of the American National Football League
have hosted a game every Thanksgiving Day since 1934. The Dallas
Cowboys have hosted every Thanksgiving Day since 1966. Many college
and high school football games are played over Thanksgiving weekend,
often between regional or historic rivals.
In 1621, the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims who settled
in Plymouth, Massachusetts, held holiday meal as U.S. tradition.
Turkey play a large role in the celebration of Thanksgiving. In
1890- 1900, it also became more popular for new immigrants after
the end of Civil War. The first official Thanksgiving was held in
the Virginia Colony on December 4, 1619 near the current site of
Berkeley Plantation, where celebrations are still held each year
in November. The Pilgrims set apart a day to celebrate at Plymouth
immediately after their first harvest, in 1621
President Abraham Lincoln, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving
Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November. The U.S.
Congress in 1941 split the difference and established that the Thanksgiving
would occur annually on the fourth Thursday of November, which was
sometimes the last Thursday and sometimes the next to last. On November
26 that year President Roosevelt signed this bill into U.S. law.
1863:
CANADA:
Friday–Monday, four day weekend, Canadians eat their Thanksgiving
meal on any day of that weekend. The only major parade
on that day in Canada is the Oktoberfest parade in Kitchener-Waterloo.
They celebrate a meal with one group of relatives on one day, and
another meal with a different group of relatives on another day.
On January 31st, 1957, the Canadian Parliament proclaimed: "A
Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest
with which Canada has been blessed--->to be observed on the 2nd
Monday in October. The roots of the Canadian holiday are different
than those of the United States of America:
- It goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had
been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient.In the year
1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of
Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long
journey.
- Frobisher was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic
Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.
- French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada
with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks
- War ended in 1763 handing over New France to the British, the
citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving.
- American who remained loyal to Great Britain were exiled from
the United States and brought the customs and practices of the
American Thanksgiving to Canada
In 1879, the Canadian Parliament declared November 6th a day of
Thanksgiving and a national holiday in Canada.
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