Japanese Reacts to AMERICAN THANKS GIVING !!!!
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I’d say a thanksgiving turkey is for thanksgiving, and a Christmas Ham is for Christmas. But it’s different for everyone. For Christmas there isn’t usually one sort of meat everyone cooks
I would agree 100%. While I’ve had ham on Thanksgiving and turkey on Christmas, typically it’s Thanksgiving turkey and Christmas ham.
@@samsimmons1100 yesss
Yep. Pretty much.
The Thanksgiving meal features foods native to North America as the main ingredients: Turkey, pumpkin, cranberries, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and often corn. It is not about Europeans introducing foods to the natives, it is the other way around. Natives shared and explained their food sources to the Europeans, saving their lives.
The first years that European settlers were in America they were farming in the way they had farmed in Europe, with crops they had brought from Europe, but these crops tended to fail. The native Americans taught the settlers methods that had a proven track record in the environment in which the settlers were now living. IMO A significant aspect of historical thanksgiving is that they were finally able to have a substantial harvest. This is the subtext of the difference between the 1620 and 1621 harvests. Its not really that they went to a native village, so much as the native villagers taught them how to subsist in the harsh environment of the northeast (Massachusetts)
Yeap, you know better your history.
Turkey is more of a Thanksgiving dinner item, but we also have a big dinner on Christmas too.
Oh!! I’m pretty sure that “sweet” dish you had was “yams.” Mashes yams are usually served at a typical thanksgiving dinner. People put cinnamon and sugar in them to make the dish sweet. Also most people melt marshmallows on top too. It is funny how it’s not considered a dessert haha
probably
My family has cooked apples with the yams.
@@politelephant oh wow! I’ve never heard of that. So absolutely delicious tho
Either that, or pumpkin pie.
@@angelicuh7626 yeaaa but he said it wasn’t served as a dessert
Modern Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday of November (since 1863, proclaimed as a national holiday by Lincoln). The concept of thanksgiving however is a feast giving thanks for the years harvest bounty, so when America was more predominantly agrarian in nature the day of the feast would depend on when the harvest was completed, you can’t celebrate a harvest before the harvest is in, that would be “counting your chickens before they’ve hatched”, in this way the day of traditional thanksgiving would vary by location, climate, crop and weather.
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That's why Canada's Thanksgiving is earlier
@@jch77
Speaking of which (assuming you are Canadian from comment), what is typical Canadian thanksgiving fare? Same turkey etc, or is it different?
I'm not Canadian I learned that from a free calendar that sends out the same calendar to both Canada and the USA I'm from the USA
Lincoln made it the last Thursday of November. Some Novembers have five Thursdays. Franklin Roosevelt moved it up and made it the fourth Thursday to stimulate holiday consumer spending
We actually have a “thanksgiving break” where we take a couple days off from school for the holiday. Just in case some people travel to other family members states or areas for the celebration :)
It can be a couple of days or a whole week depending on what you're dealing with!
@@lazkennedy yup!
Thanksgiving is basically a harvest festival... The pilgrims that had been on the Mayflower fleeing religious persecution we're starving.. out of about 120 there were less than 50 left after a winter season. There was fighting with native American tribes in the area..But The tribes themselves were constantly fighting and killing each other too. So pilgrims we're surprised by a native walking into the settlement (which if I recall was a previous native settled area where all had died off years before... And the pilgrims moved to the partial already cleared area) he spoke some English.. because he'd been taken as a slave by the British.. but had made his way back.. this very basic communication was able to bring a dialogue of some sort with one of the native tribes.. later another English speaking native helped the settlement communication.. leading eventually to the natives helping pilgrims learning how to grow crops they had no clue about.. and pilgrims helped the tribe fight with their guns the other native tribes that we're enemies of those they'd made the agreement with. This it led to a fall harvest festival that brought both groups together eating the crops and animals in the area. Much later it was made into a holiday. Pumpkin pie.. pecan pie, turkey, duck, fish, yams, sweet potatoes...Whatever was able to be hunted and grown is served. I like Thanksgiving because it's all about family gathering.. eating bounty and being thankful to God if you're religious. Christmas is totally different because it's all about gifts for most.. giving ( vs thankful) to others as a reflection of God's gift of his son and salvation.. and for non religious it's a mass orgy of presents and group parties.
Very interesting ! Thank you very much !
Happy Thanksgiving. I'm working today so I'll get to celebrate later
Happy thanksgiving ! Good luck with your work today ;)
@@Choppylovechoppy lol yeah thanks
After I get off work I'll help me mom finish cooking. Then pack everything up and head to the nursing home and have dinner with my grandmother.
In answer to some of your questions: Thanksgiving is a National Holiday. Schools and many businesses are closed. Many people so gather with family and friends . Yes turkey is generally the center of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.As this is basically an American holiday the menu is more standard across the nation. Initially the native Americans and the pilgrims got along fine. The meal at the original feast with the pilgrims and the native Americans featured not European food but rather food the native Americans had taught pilgrims how to fish for, hunt and grow. A Christmas dinner may indeed future a turkey, or ham, or roast beef of some sort of entre. . It is more varied because Christmas is celebrated world-wide and traditions vary across the globe. As America is a "melting pot"of people and cultures, there isn't just one traditional American Christmas celebration. And yes, we frequently spend Christmas day with our families as well. There is not any particular hard-and-fast rule about these holidays however. America is comprised of many different cultures and therefore, holidays are not celebrated identically. This is further mixed when couples get married and the husband brings traditions, the wife brings traditions and they also build new traditions within their own new family.
The sweet pumpkin dish you said they served sounds very much like sweet potatoes or some folks call it candied yams.
Like you said, Thanksgiving is giving appreciation for everything you have.
Christmas dinner and Thanksgiving dinner are usually pretty similar with some exceptions. The pumpkin in that photo is like a staple flavor for this holiday. Pumpkin is harvested in the fall which is why it's something pretty big. In my state, Georgia, our schools get off for the whole week of Thanksgiving to spend time with family. There's more to it even I don't know so yeah.
So yeah we do have essentially 2 Holidays that are about Family in America. Many Americans believe that Family is very important if not one of the most important parts of their life. Thanksgiving is generally a larger feast than Christmas but you can possibly see some of the same dishes in both Holidays including Turkey, despite it being only a month apart. That doesn't mean that we consider Christmas less important than Thanksgiving, we might put less effort into the food but we also have the gift giving tradition and the religious part of Christmas. Many families will go to Church both on Christmas eve and Christmas day, but noone considers Thanksgiving remotely religious anymore despite the history of it being celebrated that way by the Purtians.
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Thanksgiving dishes from the first thanksgiving was only what they could at that time. Venison was the main dish, Eels, Corn, anything harvested at that time. Potatoes were still thought poison and so were tomatoes. the dishes were actually a combination of native and english dishes.
The popular saying is the 3 Fs of Thanksgiving:
Food, Family, Football
Thanksgiving is traditionally Turkey, but Christmas is often determined by family or regional custom. I saw one commenter mention beef, but I have never had beef for Christmas. Always turkey or ham, or both. My fam is of Norwegian heritage so we always have lefse too. It’s a big deal regionally, not common across the country. Both holidays are basically food orgies, but Thanksgiving is religion-optional, and you don’t have to exchange gifts. The holiday season is particularly stressful because we do have multiple holidays in a short period of time.
For me Thanksgiving is more of the food, family, and gratitude; and Christmas is more about the presents, family, and Christ (or Santa. )
thanksgiving is typically turkey and Christmas is typically ham. obviously some people do different foods though. also pumpkin pie is a staple of thanksgiving.
Pumpkin pie is definitely what i had
My contribution to Thanksgiving in more detail.
Turkey bag baked 4 hours with fresh 🎶sage, rosemary, and thyme🎶 compound butter under the skin and stuffing.
Brussels Sprouts baked with bacon, cranberries, and fuji apple baked for 1/2 hour with the turkey unbagged. Seasoned with simple salt and pepper.
Yams smoked for 2 hours seasoned with chipotle cinnamon.
There will likely be an apple crisp for desert.
This is considered to be a lazy Thanksgiving. We're only doing 3 dishes and I got a 2 hour nap between the turkey and the yams.
Americans traditionally do turkey for thanksgiving across the country. The menu for Christmas dinners will vary from family to family a lot more. A lot of the traditional thanksgiving foods have North American origins, such as corn and turkey, which was brought back to Europe by the colonists. Thanksgiving is celebration of the success and abundance we have, as families and as Americans. There is no school on Thanksgiving, no mail, government offices and most businesses are closed. A lot of people watch American football games or the parades for entertainment. The day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday, and it's a huge day of shopping across the country, beginning the Christmas shopping season. Stores on Friday offer big discounts, new items go on the market, and for many businesses it's an essential day for their success.
oh trueeee completely forgot about Black Friday !!!
Breakfast after thanksgiving
Friday - sauteed turkey (.3kg), two eggs/person, avocado toast
Saturday - sauteed turkey (.3kg), two eggs, avocado toast
Sunday - sauteed turkey (.3kg), two eggs, avocado toast
Sunday dinner shall be turkey (.5kg) soup with 16 beans (.5kg).
Monday dinner shall be turkey (1.5kg) soup with pumpkin seasoned with cinnamon and chipotle.
This covers the bulk of remaining Thanksgiving turkey. It happens to result in the lowest cost low fat low salt eating for 4 days.
Turkey is the traditional meal on Thanksgiving, but other dishes may also be served. The day is a National (Federal) holiday in the US, and is also celebrated by US embassies and military bases around the world. Pumpkins, a symbol of the Autumn season, are also a tradition, with Pumpkin Pie the usual main dessert, along with other delights.
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Happy Thanksgiving. I like the holiday, because it’s a nice day to spend the day off with family, gather together and help make a dish for the main meal. It’s a great time to reflect over the past year and appreciate the blessings and family in your life.
For Christmas, since I’m hispanic, we usually have ham and make a few dozen tamales 🫔
You’re welcome to join if you’re in town!
Happy Thanksgiving !!! GRACIAS MI AMIGOOO 😆
@@Choppylovechoppy hopefully you’ll be able to travel to the US soon. If you head to Texas let us know, I’m in San Antonio.
As an interesting fact: Thanksgiving is also a hottly debated topic. Mostly because there were two main groups that arrives in the americas, the first the pilgrims who founded Plymoth up north which had a pretty good relationship with the locals, and the southern Jamestown which (putting it lightly) really didnt. Similar to another holiday in terms of theme is Columbus day, which is the celebration of the guy who “found” america. Hes the reason native americans are called indians as he believed himself to be in india. These are both debated for similr reasons, namely the subsequent genocide of many native american cultures and groups. While thanksgiving is less argued about than columbous day, it like many things in america, makes many people get into arguments on whether its actully a good thing to celebrate these holidays. It does mostly relate to politics in the united states though, so its often a conversation point best left untouched.
Both Christmas and Thanksgiving are generally associated with Turkey. However, for christmas this can vary wildly depending on where you live in America, or just how your family works. In some familys it may be turkey, but for others it could be steak, chili(a southern stew of beans and usually beef, similar to a chunky curry)
Thanks giving actually also has many other things that people tune in for on television. Some enjoy watching the parade or the football, while some watch the dog show, a competition on pet grooming and breeding, its a strange buisness too be sure.
Hope you learned something new!
I think youre referring to pumpkin pie throw in some whipped cream on top and you're good to go. And Happy Thanksgiving🦃
That’s what it was ! Happy Thanksgiving! Have a wonderful day !
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! ☮️
Happy thanksgiving !!!
Happy Thanksgiving from California
HAPPY THANKS GIVING ✨
@@Choppylovechoppy I am European and native American and both sides of my family love Thanksgiving the pumpkin dish is called pumpkin pie
@@Choppylovechoppy the whole idea of the holiday is to celebrate the bounty that God has brought after almost starving in the beginning of living in the new world
Christmas dinner is often centered on beef in America, we have a lot more cows here that they have in Britain. We do roast beef and Yorkshire pudding (which is life a breadth thing made with rendered fat from the roast) roasted potatoes, whereas Thanksgiving dinner is turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and the greatest green bean casserole on earth and of course pumpkin pie.
The little pumpkin was probably because pumpkin pie is a common dessert on thanksgiving. For my family it is more of a cultural holiday than any of the history around it. We have turkey on thanksgiving, brisket (beef) on Hanukkah (my mother is Christian and my dad is Jewish), and ham on Christmas. Honestly the end of the year is almost exhausting with so many family get togethers and there is no way to diet when every other week is this huge feast.
I think most schools have a thanksgiving break so they have the whole week off. That’s what my school is currently doing
Around Thanksgiving usually get a Thanksgiving break schools are off, some business close for the holiday. For the sweat pumpkin dish all I can think is pumpkin pie, or mashed sweet potatoes. For Christmas it traditional to have a ham, unless you have your own family tradition's then the food will mostly be different.
We don't separate the words in Thanksgiving. All one word :) Also, people can have anything for Thanksgiving and Christmas (Turkey, Chicken, Goose, Prime Rib, Ham, etc), but I would say most people do turkey for Thanksgiving and ham for Christmas. The sides will also vary by region and family tradition. Also, pumkins are both staples of Halloween and Thanksgiving, because they are a fall-late fall vegetable. People often have pumpkin pie or pumpkin soup at Thanksgiving, so it's not at all weird to see one at the dinner table on Thanksgiving.
Thank you for sharing this video Timothy James:) God bless you.
Happy Thanksgiving! It’s basically a 4-day weekend for most Americans. It’s also very similar to Christmas in terms of meeting with family.
Happy thanksgiving mi amigoo
8:46 Could it be sweet potatoes? My family always makes baked sweet potatoes on Thanksgiving.
You're right, Thanksgiving and Christmas are pretty similar. The only difference is Christmas has presents! And generally most people are off work and school is definitely out for Thanksgiving.
Over all its a day of thanks, Christmas is more or less the same but with less of a focus on thanks and more on gifting. Turkey and ham is considered more of a Thanksgiving staple along with some other dishes traditionally served like stuffing with cranberry sauce, and an assortment of pies like sweet potato and pumpkin. Typically a relative (most likely the best cook) volunteers as a host and prepares the bird while in many cases others (minus that one aunt that can't cook and is chosen to bring store bought snacks or drinks) will bring a dish of their choice.
In my family it's basically a travel across the states to my grandparents house. My mother and aunts gather with my grandmother and start on the food, by the end of the day my huge family and some friends are cramped in a small house eating and having fun .
Interesting ;)
On Christmas, we have ham. We might also have ham on Thanksgiving though in addition to the turkey
All government buildings and almost all public buildings close on Thanksgiving day. It treated the same as Christmas. Retailers will open Thanksgiving day at around 6pm or later for the start of Black Friday.
You can eat Ham or Turkey on Christmas and Thanksgiving though there is more to do with turkey on Thankgiving such as the president pardoning the turkey.
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"By a channel called History." In the states, there is a television channel called the History channel, and that is their RUclips channel.
So that is like what Americans can watch when they want to learn history themselves.
History channel can be a bit iffy though.
When European people first arrived in North America they didn't know how to survive the harsh winters. Native Americans taught them about all the native foods and helped them to survive the winter. The first Thanksgiving consisted of different foods that the native peoples consumed during the Autumn season. Modern day Thanksgiving is more of a harvest festival celebrating the Autumn harvest with a feast.
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We always did turkey for Thankgsgiving, and ham or beef for Yule/Christmas. A few years we did Mexican or Chinese food for Christmas, that's also a tradition in my area.
For my family, the entire family gets together for Thanksgiving but Christmas is for the immediate family. So on Thanksgiving we have like 20+ people show up but Christmas it's just parents and their kids. Don't know if that's how it is for other people but that's how it's always been in my family
Pumpkin pie is a huge thing.
But yeah, thanks giving is a day to give thanks for the bountiful harvest, but our family like to take time to be thankful for everything God has blessed us with.
My family does turkey on thanks giving (sometimes ham) and prime rib on Christmas
At least for me, Thanksgiving has always been the day to gather up the extended family and have tons of aunts and uncles and other relatives around to eat a big meal and watch football. Christmas is more focused on the nuclear family
As others have said. Christmas is not a unifying holiday. Christmas is different everywhere. Hence why Abraham Lincoln established the holiday. Thanksgiving is mostly the same everywhere in the US.
There are many nuances to the Thanksgiving holiday traditions not mentioned here. For instance Thanksgiving foods are meant to be made up of foodstuffs native to the US.
So thats turkey, the three sisters (Green Beans, Corn and Pumpkin), potatoes, sweet potatoes and cranberries. So a common meal has Turkey, green bean casserole, corn on the cob, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, baked potatoes and cranberry sauce.
As for Christmas, there is no traditional Christmas dinner in the US. Im fact many low income Americans dont even have a christmas. They'll bleed money for thanksgiving but skip christmas.
And adults without children will often skip Christmas altogether even if they return to their own parents house for thanksgiving. As Christmas is seen less as a family holiday for many but a children's holiday. Like halloween.
Also understanding the reverence to thanksgiving helps understand black friday which occurs the day after thanksgiving.
Basically black friday exists because a lot of Americans simply refuse to acknowledge their capitalistic consumerism impulses until after thanksgiving. Which results in a lot of people beginning their shopping on the same day. Hence black friday.
Even more detail. My work gives us a $25-$50 gift card for Thanksgiving and paid holiday for 2 days. There are also promotions for free small turkeys around 5kg. Small birds are so popular they are sold pretty fast but to honor the promotion they WILL substitute 10-15kg birds. EVERY year I'm stuck with a bird larger than I need and I consider myself lucky to have scored a a free 9kg bird only being double what I need.
One can choose a different protein. However even paying for turkey we're talking about 300yen/kilo for turkey AND needing to feed a large crowd. And there is a benefit to having roughly 3kg of surplus meat for the following week for turkey dishes. In fact there is such a surplus of turkey someone in 1954 got the bright idea to use it and made the first TV Dinners.
Pumpkin is a general Autumn theme in the US. Not just a Halloween thing.
For your future consideration re: US Holidays:
March 17 every year is Saint Patrick's Day. Patrick was a Christian Catholic priest in Ireland, and during the Irish potato famines many many Irish emigrated to the US. Also the church of England literally took land away from Irish Catholic farmers, so another reason why so many Irish came to America. Large segments of Irish settled in New York and dominated politics in New York. The US Irish immigrants wanted their own holiday and began celebrating St. Patrick's birthday. It caught on nationwide and thus, ironically, St Patrick's Day was huge in the US, and only in recent decades has Ireland started to actively celebrate it and promote it. Nearly 1/3 of US citizens have some Irish ancestry. In the US, people wear green clothing and in Chicago, they actually dump green non toxic dye into the river turning it green. Lots of people get drunk, and it's second only to Thanksgiving holiday for alcohol served. Even though technically St. Pats day is a religious holiday (like Christmas) most people celebrate it regardless, even atheists. All festivals worldwide tend to celebrate spring and fall for the planting of crops and harvest of crops. Germany has Octoberfest for example.
Although the traditional meat is Turkey on Thanksgiving, I think it also depends on region and culture what other dishes Americans eat on that day. I know where I’m from there is of course Turkey but we also have a lot of Latin dishes as well.
thanksgiving is basically tailgating for Christmas lol
What's intertesing is people who celebrate athanksgiving, some dishes will be a little different from other places depending depending what part of the USA state you are eating at..
Here in the south we have both Ham and turkey for both Thanksgiving and also Christmas.
To give people a variety of choices plus we are all about about casserole..
I'm pretty sure what you ate was a Sweet potatoe casserole.
That is a popular dish we Southern women also make as a side dish.
And yes it looks like pumpkin and it's creamy like mashed potatoes and sweet. Yummy!
I made some very good delicious homemade banana pudding.
People love my banana pudding cause my grandmother put crushed pineapples juice into her custard and put crushed pineapples into her baking pan with the vanilla waffers, Sliced bananas and custard all layered and she used egg ahites and white sugar to blend with an electric blender and it forms a snow white puffy topping.
You spread it all over your banana pudding siltick it in the oven on 350 and bake it until it starts to brown lightly.
This also cooks the waffers and makes them softer.
I HATE hard cracks waffets in banana pudding.
I have yet to try a better banana pudding better than my grandmother's recipe.
Even others who have tasted mine also agree.
I also make some baked mac and cheese, not just out of a box and doctor it up and make it better and cheesier and bake it and I also make home made mashed potatoes. I just put milk, butter and half cup of Duke mayonnaise in it to make it taste better and make it more creamy of I've made a large pan. And add some salt and pepper..
We have all kinds of desserts we mske.or bring.
People also love my chocolate cobbler and butterfinger chocolate cake and Hershey cake with homemade chocolate frosting.
Yes us Southern women know how to cook well for Thanksgiving.
Not everyone in America gets a 4 day holiday for Thanksgiving. HOWEVER it's pretty common.
I'm keeping it small this year. Only 1 9kg turkey. Only 1kg of Brussels Sprouts with apple, onion, bacon, and cranberries. Only 1kg of smoked yams.
I specifically bought the double 1 meter wide convection oven for this holiday. This way I could, hypothetically, cook 26kg of turkey.
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My job let us have the day before, after, and the actual Thursday off. Thanksgiving weekend we call it.
Also my family has Turkey and gather with loved ones on both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Also, for me it is a special day I give thanks to God, though I give Him thanks everyday. 😁
Turkey/food/shopping are a requirement/symbolic for thanksgiving but Christmas is more religious and about gift giving with those you are thankful for. They almost the same.
Its also likely you tried yams or sweet potatoe casserole, the latter of which is kind of like mashed sweet potatoes topped with brown sugar and crushes nuts
They tell the story about the Pilgrims and the Native Americans to give it a more ~historical~ feel, but really it's just an excuse to sell us lots of food and themed decorations, and to butter us up (pun intended) to spend tons of money leading up to Christmas. These days, Halloween until New Years is just a massive string of holiday preparations/parties/events, and we give them different themes so we have an excuse for all the festivities.
Directly after Halloween, the ~spooky~ decorations come down, replaced with more nature-y fall/winter decorations for the month of November. Stores and the radio start playing Christmas music. People plan their thanksgiving holidays and buy what they need to prepare for the feast, then there's all the traveling to see family, cooking that can start days before Thanksgiving, etc. Most schools and offices will at least have that Thursday and Friday off, if not the entire week. The actual day involves tons of cooking, the Macy's parade on TV in the background, lots of family activities/games, getting dressed up for the actual thanksgiving dinner (which often starts in the early afternoon and then goes all the way until late evening with tons of food consumed throughout). Young adults will often have to start the day at one family gathering with their partner in tow, and then leave early to go see their partner's family for the rest of the evening. Many people will also have "Friendsgiving" dinners on a different day- again as an excuse to party, but also as a way to make time to see each other during the busiest time of the year, and to make sure that everyone gets to celebrate even if they aren't able to do so with their families for one reason or another (Friendsgiving is rather popular in the LGBTQ community, for instance).
But immediately after Thanksgiving, it's ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS. And I do mean IMMEDIATELY. Black Friday sales used to start early Friday morning, but through stores competing with each other they got earlier and earlier and can now start Thursday evening. Many families will head out to do black friday shopping together after Thanksgiving dinner, and then get a few hours' sleep and shop some more on Friday. The idea is to get your Christmas gift shopping done, but people also use it to buy tons of other stuff on sale. And of course there's all the special gift packs and small stocking-stuffer type stuff to buy for obligatory acquaintance/coworker gifts.
Starting from Thanksgiving weekend, the last of the fall decorations come down and the full-fledged winter/Christmas decorations go up (if they aren't up already- some people are REALLY into Christmas). The family will either get the fake christmas tree out of storage, go pick one out at a tree farm, or go get one from the woods themselves, and will often make an event of putting all the ornaments on the tree together. Some people will also make a new ornament every year and/or go out and buy one. There are school christmas activities and company christmas parties and friend christmas parties and gift exchanges and ugly christmas sweater parties and white elephant gift exchanges (look it up if you've never heard of it lol). There are gingerbread parties and more sales and shopping and planning and gift wrapping and cooking and traveling. There are Christmas movie marathons on TV, children's christmas concerts and plays at school, and church christmas concerts and plays. There are also christmas parades and "Santa" visits at the mall and other such things. People will also drive around to view all the christmas lights and decorations people have put up. And then once again most schools and offices will at least have the week between Christmas and New Years off. Many have extra days before and after off as well. A lot of people see their extended family for Christmas dinner on christmas eve or "christmas adam" (the day before christmas eve lmao). Christmas eve/christmas morning is also of of the biggest days for churches, as people who usually only attend casually or not at all will at least go for Christmas and Easter (or be forced to go by their families).
People have various traditions, but many will select one gift to open on Christmas eve, and then of course Christmas morning is for all of the presents as well as the stockings. Then you have to clean up all the wrapping paper and open up all the shiny new toys and gadgets and put them together and play with them, and then you have to clean up all of that mess. By then it's usually already late in the day, and people will just eat leftovers or maybe have a casual gathering with extended family again.
And then it's just days of lounging around, seeing friends and family, maybe going to see some of the many winter movie releases, heading to the mall to use all the gift cards you got and buying more junk with the post-christmas sales. And of course partying again on New Years Eve, either with friends or with family- as long as you're with people you care about and get to do the count-down to midnight. The Times Square new years eve party and ball drop air on tv and many people watch that or at least have it on in the background. And the Rose Parade airs on tv New Years morning.
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I'll be honest-- my understanding is that the Japanese comprehension of Western Christmas is pretty confused on the first place, so it's possible you've seen pictures of Thanksgiving and thought it was Christmas. Which is why you're confused.
Christmas, you know, there might be food, but it isn't the main aspect of the holiday. Its about giving, and it can sometimes be heavily religious, and there are other party type things going on.
On Thanksgiving, you know, it's less about thanking a diety specifically. It really is just about the food and the gratitude for what you have.
There aren’t many shops open on Thanksgiving. I’m just on my own, so for holidays I just have another day and can get some fast food.
In big families sometimes they go to Thanksgiving at one relative and Christmas to another. Some people eat another turkey dinner at Christmas, or they have different animals, or just any favorite meal like crab cioppino or spaghetti. I’ve been invited to Thanksgiving dinners with coworkers. It’s ok, but I’d rather stay home. There’s always the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in the morning, and football games to watch in the afternoon. Many people protest the day because Europeans showed up and forcefully took over the land.
If your in southern Illinois near Thanksgiving your welcome to our families meal!
Nice video. But Thanksgiving day is not that Europeans share their food with locals, it was opposite. Some of colonists in America don't have enought food for winter and locals give them some food. And they make dinner together-native Americans and colonists. And colonists tanks for food. I knew that was first Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving Timothy! I love your videos! Come visit Idaho in the US some day!!! The lakes are absolutely beautiful and so blue!!
Happy Thanksgiving ! I'd love tooo !!!
Christmas meat in my family is turkey if the extending family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) is over. But if it's just my mom, sister, and I, we do ham for Christmas and turkey on Thanksgiving. If we visit the grandparents, we may have lobster or pork lions instead.
Do u know about Valentines Day? February 14th every year is the holiday for couples and for school kids
Thankgiving is for giving thanks for family and friends. Yes there is turkey cranberry relish pumpkin pie green beans mash potato's devil eggs rolls cole slaw so much food it is crazy. Christmas is christmas trees holly deco. It is actually a celebration of christ has risen for christians and then santa for little ones the sharing of gifts. It is also a grathering of family and friends. Ham is served but also turkey with tons of food in my family almost everyone brings a dish of food and drinks.O the same for Thanksgiving everyone brings a dish of food and drinks.
The Europeans were starving and eating poisonous foods. Two tribesmen showed them how to cultivate the land with foods the natives were accustomed to and the spices they used as well. The Europeans decided to throw a feast with the first harvest. However, tensions were high between the natives and the Europeans because the Europeans desecrated sacred native lands and began to steal from the natives. Which eventually led to the Thanksgiving day massacre. Modern days we gather as families for Thanksgiving & Christmas. Thanksgiving is usually a time to express gratitude, and the center staple is Turkey and usually sweet potato or pumpkin pie. Christmas staple is usually ham (Honey Baked Ham.), and some families also have Turkey or both.
What you had that was sweet was most likely sweet potato casserole
Thanksgiving.. *shudder*. Unfortunately my extended family was very dramatic. For some reason my Mom and her sisters were always having big DRAMA almost every year. It was horrific. One aunt's children were drug using psychopaths who seemingly went out of their way to dream up new ways to ruin every family event. Then, when the big family gatherings ended because everyone was just too fucked up to keep doing it, my own family's thanksgivings went to shit. I still remember pulling up to my Mom's house expecting a cheery holiday for our little family, only to find that the cops had been called because my mom had "thrown a knife" at my sister mere minutes before I arrived. Ah yes, the wonders of thanksgiving. The holiday that gives you nothing except indigestion and bad memories.
That's actually sad, I'm sorry :(
I am so sorry
You could be thinking of sweet potato casserole
Canada has a Thanksgiving but a different day than in the USA.
I am gonna go spend time with my dad and stepmom for a bit then I am gonna come home to cook for friends giving tomorrow.
We eat ham on Christmas day.
The UK does a roast goose not a turkey. Christmas is ham.
No it's definitely turkey
For thanksgiving everyone has turkey but Christmas some people do but it’s not really required me personally I don’t eat anything special on Christmas
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Turkey for Thanksgiving ham for Christmas come on bro LOL
I didnt really celebrate thanksgiving. I made pancakes and played board games... Does that count?
At the first thanksgiving they ate whatever they could get, and since they had enough food to feed people that year for a change they celebrated this and gave thanks to God. It’s a very Christian holiday even tho it’s not overtly religious like Christmas
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From Texas, I think Thanksgiving is a bullshit holiday. But I do enjoy visiting with my family.
Loool thanks for that but good you enjoy your time with your family anyways
Please watch 'broken/don't pass me by by Indiana Bible College' and then anything by Tauren Wells and rate which one is better
Pumpkin Pie!
Like all National Holidays, businesses and schools are closed for Thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving might have originally been to be thankful for god but it’s turned into a capitalistic holiday so anyone celebrates it really. When I was in elementary school, the teachers had us write things we were thankful for and make paper turkeys and stuff. So I don’t think it’s necessarily connected to god.
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The vast majority of Indians, they generally prefer Indian to Native American, are fine with Thanksgiving. It's usually white people being offended on their behalf that causes problems.
Hi, it was maybe 'sweet potato pie' ?
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Happy Thanksgiving!
One thing I'd like to note is that that History video was definitely sugar-coating the history of the Europeans and Native Americans. It was a very bleak time in Indigenous American history, and the American Settlers did not treat the Indigenous people well. I'd recommend reading some more contemporary information on it as even educational history books neglect to mention how terribly the Indigenous Americans were treated...
P.S. The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is starting at the same time I'm writing this comment, it might be available on RUclips!
Not all American settlers
And I would recommend not relying on marxist propaganda for the history of your country. Are there shameful things that took place in our history in regards to treatment of the indians, particularly with broken treaties? Of course. But to frame the entire history of the country, especially thanksgiving, in that way is just plain dishonest. Much of the conflicts that arose were not so simple as settlers = bad, indians = good. For example, the tribe mentioned in the video were peacefully living with the pilgrims until sadly the son of the chief was convinced to turn on and attack the pilgrims. History is much more complicated than the simple oppressor/oppressed narrative that the marxists try to make it out to be. We should be very suspicious of any narrative that tries to completely erase all the good that was created out of the forming of our country. Happy Thanksgiving!
The Pilgrims got along with the Native Americans they met. Problems with the Native American people and Europeans started later.
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We grew up being told that we celebrated it bcuz of the friendship we made with the native Americans. Some prefer to call it Indigenous People's Day now.
Look up what really happened on the first Thanksgiving.. Americans were taught in school there was a peaceful feast but in reality that never happened.. the native Americans were slaughtered and even to this day mourn being massacred
Yes also us Scandinavian people where here living among them 1000 years before America was formed and 400 years before Columbus and Christmas is actually pegan holiday we invited it's Odin coming down