How do you celebrate thanksgiving ?
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Depends on where I'm at, if I'm at my place or my parents' place, or if I'm at my aunt and uncle's place.\n\nAt my uncle's, I think we get there in time to go to Thanksgiving services(my uncle's a Lutheran minister), then on Thanksgiving itself, it's the usual football and feast thing. Although I can't recall if they have the turkey, as it's been quite a few years since we've been there for Thanksgiving. Prayers are said, of course, heh, that's to be expected considering my uncle's profession.\n\nAt my parents' place, there's no going to service. I'm not even sure if the church my parents attend even has one. I think around here, some do, some don't. I think their church may just have the Thanksgiving service the Sunday before. Uncle's church is bigger, probably why they have the service. Parents' church is smaller, maybe that's the difference.\n\nOh well, when I'm at their place, there's no services at any rate. Usually prepare the turkey and feast, the guys of the family watch football or play video games on the computer, and we sometimes watch the parades. Macy's has kinda gone downhill for me since I was a kid, so sometimes we watch at my mom's, sometimes not. Pretty simple. Prayers are said at the meal, as well as saying what we're thankful for.\n\nMy place, there's no services(I'm an atheist). I'm up at 5 or so to get up, dressed, and work on the bird. Hubby-to-be and I aren't fond of football, so we don't watch that. Might watch a parade if any of them are any good, otherwise he flips channels or puts a movie in while I'm working on the food.\n\nFor the feast, no prayers are said(I allow individual people to pray, but I don't do group prayers like at my uncle's or parents'). I tend to put more importance on what we're grateful for than WHO we're thanking. I also tend to pass out and go to sleep once the meal's done. I think Dad and the guys end up watching football.\n\nSometimes we do family games like play cards or dominoes during football or the afternoon when we're not all so stuffed and sleepy.\n\nThanksgiving for us is usually more about the food and family, though the more religious members of my family tend to put the religious angle into it. I don't do that personally. Like I said, I tend to put more focus on family, food, and being grateful that we're even still alive from one year to the next, rather than religion.\n\nGood luck on your report! :)
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It's probably not a traditional Thanksgiving dish, but that doesn't mean that you can't have it on Thanksgiving.  If your family likes it, why not make it a Thanksgiving tradition at your house?
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Maybe they call it Thankgiving ......\n:))\n\nHappy Thanksgiving.\n\n:)
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Right after Thanksgiving
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What's wrong with you? Thanksgiving is a commemoration of the first successful harvest of the Mayflower Pilgrims in New England. If you knew anything at all, you would know that they travelled to the New World to escape religious intolerance in England. But still you ask how we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the UK. The USA and UK may have the same language, but that does not mean that they will necessarily have the same traditions.\n\nThe nearest thing we have to the USA's Thanksgiving is Harvest Festival celebrated in churches, and usually in September. See this website for more details: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Harvest.html\n\nHalloween was hardly celebrated in the UK before the 1980s. There were some kids' parties, with children dressed as witches, and apple bobbing. Swedes (Swedish turnips) were used for making lantern faces illuminated by a candle. Some older kids would remove garden gates from their hinges, and hide them - all trick and no treat. And that was about it.\n\nThe reason for that is that the UK has a more established celebration on November 5th - Guy Fawkes Night (aka Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night). See this website for further information: http://www.bonefire.org/guy/ . Furthermore children used to collect money in the street - see the "Penny for the guy" tradition as outlined in this webpage:  http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/guyfawkes.html\n\nHowever things changed in the 1980s following the release of the films E.T. and Halloween. As a result of the 1982 film, E.T., (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/) more children began dressing up in spooky costumes and knocking on doors for sweets. A consequence of the 1978 film, Halloween (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/), was that a public demand for pumpkins was created, and they are now used for making lantern faces. Adults also have costumed Halloween parties. Nowadays Halloween here is no different from the USA.\n\nI hope this answers your query.
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Thanks giving day  is on  Thursday, November 23, 2006 in the United States this year.  Thanksgiving is a U.S. holiday in late November that commemorates the good harvest of the Pilgrims in 1621.
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many supermarkets and restaurants now have services where u can order food for thanksgiving. u can also have each of the million people bring one dish to help u out.\nbread rolls\nmashed potatoes \ncorn\ncandied yam\nasparagus\nstuffing\ndessert\nserved with icecream and whip cream\napple pie\npumpkin pie\nsweet potatoe pie\nblueberry pie
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Well, in my family we have a huge amount of vegetarians, so in order to make something for them we usually do something along the lines of stuffed eggplant or a vegetarian lasagnia.  Both of which turn out excellent and everyone can enjoy them.  Recipes for those can be found at numerous cooking sites.\n\nOr\n\nThe other half of my family doesn't follow the traditional thanksgiving, because none of them like turkey.  So we created our own tradition.  Thanksgiving day, we order a huge amount of chinese food to go, we usually blow about $300-400.  We open up all the boxes on the table and just pass em around.  It's really a lot more fun and less depressing than it sounds.  Best of luck...
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In my family, if your late getting to the house, you are stuck doing clean up during the games! For many years, the Packers played the Lions on Thanksgiving. I'm from Wisconsin, so this was a very big deal seeing as how the whole family are Packer Fans.\nWe give thanks and talk of the things we are grateful for. \nWhen I was very young (5-6) my brother who is much older, explained to me that watching the little guy run over the big guy is what life is about. Meaning, that if you put your mind to it, be grateful and thankful for what GOD has given you, you can do anything no matter how small you are.\nThanksgiving is a message, not a meal. I see that message every time I watch a football game, even when my Packers are losing.\nHappy Thanksgiving!
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Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November.  While Thanksgiving itself is a single day, the holiday always includes the following Friday, making for a four-day weekend.  \n\nThe holiday originated, according to legend, with the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1620s.  Their first winter was terribly hard, and they suffered greatly due to ignorance of the climate, soil and local growing and hunting conditions.  According to the myth, they made friends with the local native American tribes, who taught them how to recognize local fruits, vegetables and game, including pumpkins, maize, cranberries, and turkey.\n\nAt the end of the next harvest, the colonists proclaimed a great feast of thanksgiving and honored the native American tribes that had helped them survive the previous winter.  It is still celebrated as a day to give thanks for the good things that have happened during the preceding year.\n\nIn practice, Thanksgiving is a huge feast including a number of foods native to North America -- roast turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, and others.  This feast is always eaten on Thursday, though the leftovers can last, depending on the size of the household, for weeks.  \n\nIn recent years, Thanksgiving has also marked the start, in earnest, of the Christmas merchandising season.  The Macy's department store has, since the 1930s, sponsored a Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, with large inflated characters interspersed among marching bands and civic groups.  The Friday after Thanksgiving has become known as "Black Friday" and is typically the single largest retail sales day in the United States.  \n\nIn reaction to what many people see as the overcommercialization of this holiday (not to mention modern life in general), recent years have seen a growth in Buy Nothing Day, a movement to reverse the hype and mania for rabid consumption that Thanksgiving has come to represent (particularly in its "gateway holiday" role as the opening of the Christmas bacchanalia).  Originating in Canada, Buy Nothing day has come to signify a "detox" from the incessant drone of marketing, merchandising and status.  \n\nSpeaking of Canada, there is also a Thanksgiving in Canada, but it's celebrated on the second Monday in October, making for a three-day weekend.  Both the Canadian and the US Thanksgiving days are believed to be derived from the British Harvest Festivals, held at the end of summer since ancient times.\n\nYou can read more in the Wikipedia article I posted below, and also in the Adbusters Web site on Buy Nothing Day.
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Since you got the first 2 covered, why don't you check out local organizations that will be serving dinner.  You could go and possibly make a few new friends.  Before you head out, though, you could take in the Macy's Day Parade on tv which is always good!  If those don't work for you, rent some great movies and make a day of the tv.  If you were closer, I'd invite you for dinner.  Happy Thanksgiving!
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Church, Parade Dinner, Give Thanks, visit, television.
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G'day Silver and Gold,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nNo. The only place outside the US which celebrates Thanksgiving is Canada which celebrates it on the second monday in November. In the UK, the name Thanksgiving is another name for the Harvest Festival celebrated in churches at the end of the local harvest but it is not nearly as important as the US. However, it may have been part of the origins of Thanksgiving.\n\nThe only place in Germany where Thanksgiving will be celebrated will be US armed services bases.\n\nI have attached sources for your reference including German holidays.\n\nRegards
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What does being a "person of color" have to do with celebrating or not celebrating this holiday?  The offical celebration of Thanksgiving was not established until the time of President Lincoln.  It is a national holiday when people can take time out before the real hussle and bussle of the Christmas season to get together with family and friends and set a little special time aside to give thanks to whatever Diety they believe in.  There is no harm in having a special day of thanks.  Certainly, you should be grateful for the things of this world constantly, but there is no reason why you can't have a special day.  I agree that many things happened in the past that we of European descent have no cause to be proud of...however, I am, as a 21st century American, grateful for the fact that I live in this country and not another.  I am grateful for a government that sets aside a special day for thanks and that allows me the right to thank whatever Diety I wish in whatever way I wish.  No matter your ethnic/racial origins, you should be thankful for the way things are NOW and not dwell on the past.  A Mandan chief once said  something along the lines of not dwelling on things that cannot be changed (things in the past) and living toward changing those things that can (the future).  So, have a happy day of thanks.
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wake up about 9, get ready, go to grandmas, watch parade/\nvisit with my cousins while my grandma and aunts cook\npray, then eat about noon.  everyone is done by one ish and then the men sit in the living room to watch football and the woman clean and visit in the kitchen, us grandkids go downstairs and play this game we made up called potato days (we do it every thanksgiving even though my cousins are all around 15 or 16) haha just thinking about it makes me smile : )  we all go home, ushually take a nap or something, then everyone goes over to our house for visiting and wine for the adults in the evening.  its a very nice time.
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Yes, I celebrated Thanksgiving with my friend. And I watched the Macy's parade and the dog show on NBC. I like Thanksgiving.
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Get up and watch the Macys Thanksgiving Parade .  Eat about 1ish and enjoy each others company.  Go for a long walk around the 25 acre pond by our house then back to hot chocolate and cake.