Do you love thanksgiving? Well I do!
In the United States thanksgiving is a national holiday. It is celebrated with parades, competitions, and amazing food. Here’s some history about it!
In 1621 the first thanksgiving was celebrated with the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag had a harvest feast. But thanksgiving wasn’t celebrated as a national holiday until 1863, during the civil war, when president Abraham Lincoln declared that there would be a thanksgiving every year in November. Even though this holiday seems like a time that everyone is being king to each other. Many Americans believe thanksgiving is a celebration created to disguise the true relationship between the Wampanoag and the colonist, oppression and bloodshed.
These days, parades are a huge part of Thanksgiving. The most iconic would probably be the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade with was created in 1924. The parade usually has about 2 – 3 million visitors and multiple news stations, along its 2.5 mile loop. Marching bands, musical snippets, and giant balloons are just a fraction of the things shown at the parade.
Here are ten of the most popular Thanksgiving foods.
- roast turkey
- stuffing
- mashed potatoes
- green bean casserole
- corn casserole
- sweet potato casserole
- honey glazed brussel sprouts
- cranberry sause
- pecan pie
- pumpkin pie
I know lots of people celebrate Thanksgiving in America. But what about all around the world?
How many countries celebrate thanksgiving around the world? Here’s a small list of some of the countries.
- America
- Canada
- Brazil
- Germany
- Australia
- Switzerland
- The Netherlands
- Grenada
- Japan
- Liberia
- South India
- Ghana
Many countries celebrate thanksgiving but not all in the same way.
Germany’s equivalent of Thanksgiving harvest is called Erntedankfest which means,“harvest festival of thanks”. In Japan they celebrate Kinro Kansha no Hi, a holiday where people send thank you cards to policemen, firefighters or other municipal workers.
Now you know that Thanksgiving is celebrated all around the world!
Maybe next Thanksgiving you can think about other people’s Thanksgivings and how they’re celebrating then.
https://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/history-of-thanksgiving
https://www.sidechef.com/collections/1624/top-10-thanksgiving-foods/
https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a41507294/what-countries-celebrate-thanksgiving/