Do you observe Thanksgiving?

[BRayne]

As a veteran of hockey forums, it's the lack of Canadian Thanksgiving that was clearly the issue.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It's not thanksgiving till I see Snoopy offering toast

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Similarly, Americans don't observe the UK's Guy Fawkes Night, Sweden's Walpurgis Night, or German Unity Day. Or 300 other important cultural holidays across the world. American Thanksgiving is just a local custom observed by about 5% of people.

Gotta say that American culture is getting more globalized over time. While it’s true we’re not seeing ALL of the world’s holidays celebrated here, more of them are. Especially the religious ones.

For example, for the first time EVER in my little suburb of Dallas, we could hear the sounds of firecrackers on one of the Indian holidays a few weeks ago. (At least, that’s what the PD said when we called them.)