November 23, 2006
FROM THE THANKSGIVING ARCHIVES: DO THE FRENCH CELEBRATE RESENTMENT DAY?:
America Celebrates Thanksgiving Holiday (Michael Bowman, 25 November 2004, VOA NEWS)
People across the United States are celebrating Thanksgiving, a feast day when, as the name implies, Americans give thanks for all things good in their lives and the bounty their nation provides.
Put that way, you realize why only Americans give thanks.
(originally posted: November 25, 2004)
Comments
Ahem!
Posted by: Peter B at November 25, 2004 2:13 PMYou people are "Americans", broadly defined.
Posted by: David Cohen at November 26, 2004 10:09 PMonly Americans give thanks
Oh, then what are Martinmas, the Feast of San Gannaro, the Feast of the Assumption, Sukkot, Trung Thu, Argungu, Fiestas das Vindimias, Gawai Dayak, and Ch'usok? Pretty much every society has a harvest festival.
Oh, but maybe they don't give thanks to i>your god. Or they don't call it THANKSgiving, so it doesn't count as thanks. Or they screw it up by not watching football. Anyway, foreigners just don't count.
Posted by: Social Scientist at November 28, 2004 8:07 AMSS:
Being thankful just that the ground yielded up enough to eat is sensible, but has little to do with our Thanksgiving.
Posted by: oj at November 28, 2004 8:53 AM