UK question, can somebody enlighten me about Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving is Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it's a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. Thanksgiving is a North American holiday with the dates and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration a topic of modest contention. It has generally become a national secular holiday with religious origins. Though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida[1][2], the traditional "first Thanksgiving" is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621.

Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members.

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it's a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. Thanksgiving is a North American holiday with the dates and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration a topic of modest contention. It has generally become a national secular holiday with religious origins. Though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida, the traditional "first Thanksgiving" is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621.

Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members.

Thanksgiving Day, is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it's a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. Thanksgiving is a North American holiday with the dates and whereabouts of the first Thanksgiving celebration a topic of modest contention. It has generally become a national secular holiday with religious origins. Though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida[1][2], the traditional "first Thanksgiving" is venerated as having occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621.

Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members.

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Mrs. Greene

Thanksgiving is when we take the time to remember what we are thankful for...you probably got that already.

The first thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 by the Pilgrims and Native Americans after the first harvest because they were basically happy to be alive.

More than half of the Pilgrims died the first winter, and it is believed that only 5 women in total survived.

The native americans had helped the pilgrims, showing them how to plant corn, take care of their sick and so on.

As a gesture of friendship, the Pilgrims invited them to their feast.

Anything else you would like to know?

Those are the basics.

Well, Thanksgiving is supposed to be a day where everyone stops to remember all the good things they have in their lives, and consciously acknowledges (and are grateful for) their good fortune.

Supposedly, when the Pilgrims first landed in the USA, they received a lot of help from the Wampanoag tribe of Native Americans, who taught them how to survive in their new land. The Wampanoag probably had a traditional harvest feast day of their own and arguably, invited the Pilgrims to attend. The Pilgrims probably looked at this celebration as kind of a "Holy cow, we're still alive!" sort of moment, and being deeply religious, gave thanks to God for their good fortune.

We have since kind of "co-opted" the harvest feast for our own use, though, and since the mid 1800's, it has generally been celebrated as a time for family and friends to gather together and make a conscientious effort to be thankful for all they have, and grateful that they're not in any worse shape than they already are.

Hope this helps.

In the 1600s, the Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the New World. Long story short, they met up with some Native Americans upon landfall who taught them basic survival skills. In the year 1625 (I think), they had a feast with them. We celebrate that on Thanksgiving.

Well...your people (no offense) were persecuting non Anglicans so these people called pilgrims sailed to america on a boat called the mayflower. Now these people were not the first settlers in america but there descendants would start the American revolution in Boston, Massachusetts. now when they arrived it was winter and many if not most of them died because they didn't know how to survive in their new atmosphere but luckily a native called Squanto who knew english eventually taught them farming and fishing in their new land. To thank these natives they had a great feast on the third thursday of November with them. Now in modern times we take this day to remember and thank those pilgrims and natives that came here in search of freedom and created the great country we live in.

(irony time these same pilgrims started a war with the natives and killed all of them off eradicating their culture =( but :) funny in a way.

So there is your dose of american history for a day

Thanksgiving is a celebratory experience for us Yankees becauase when we were force to land on Plymoth Rock to escape the eternal mind rape of the "Motherland" we were nearly whiped out by a clan of ebola infested turkeys. Luckly for the pilgrims they formed a team called the patriots and along with the redskins defeated the turkeys in a very bloody overtime. So to remember that, we shoot, hunt, kill and eat turkeys for the horrors they attempted on our early colonial lives so so long ago.

There's this whole story about how back in the colonial period, one day, the Native Americans and the Europeans set aside their differences and sat down to eat dinner together. Not sure about how true that actually is.

Today we mostly celebrate Thanksgiving by literally giving thanks to God or whatever for the things that we have: family, health, etc. We do this by getting together and eating a huge meal that usual centers around turkey.

We celebrate killing innocent Native Americans and taking their land, claiming it for ourselves, so we get even fatter than we already are by eating huge feasts for days on end and we watch the Dallas Cowboys or the Detroit Lions play American football on TV. We usually fall asleep about halftime and farting and snoring ensues. I'm not sure what the Native Americans do. Probably involves a day or so of weeping and gnashing of teeth. And there you go.