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.)

 

[briggart]

Why would it be?

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.

American culture and customs dominate media and economy, so they tend to spill out into other countries, so I think there's a point in wondering if Thanksgiving has spread outside USA and Canada.

In Italy, Halloween was not a thing 20-30 years ago, but now it's getting more and more adopted. You don't see kids going around the neighborhood trick-or-treating, but they dress up when going to school, they carve pumpkins, etc.

Black Friday became a thing in the last decade, and that shifted the Christmas shopping season.

St. Patrick day was in vogue in the '80-'90s with the boom of Irish Pubs, faded a bit and now it's getting traction again, but coming from US college culture this time.

I don't think Thanksgiving will be a thing here, but I thought Halloween wouldn't either (we already celebrate Carnival) , so who knows in 10 years.