Do you observe Thanksgiving?

[Paul Farquhar]

I was surprised to learn just now that corn, for example, does finish getting harvested a lot later than I thought:

Corn as in maize? That might explain the discrepancy, since it’s not historically a European crop. However, some is grown round here where I live, and that was harvested two months ago. All the fields are empty now, apart from some pasture for horses, and the lavender bushes.

 

[Cadence]

Corn as in maize?

Yes, going back to edit that in now.

I was also surprised how much it varies from state to state.

 

[Richards]

We had our Thanksgiving brunch yesterday, on Thanksgiving Day. I'm hoping to have our Thanksgiving dinner tonight. If not, then perhaps tomorrow.

Johnathan

 

[Clint_L]

I'm Québécois and the lady I was talking about studied with me at Concordia University in Montréal. A lot of Ontario anglophones study in Québec because it costs less than in their own province.

There are many cultural differences between the primarily French-speaking majority and the primarily English speaking minority in Québec. We are far from being culturally assimilated into the ocean of English speakers of North America.

/end derailing.

I hope you didn't take my comment as minimizing the cultural distinctions - that was not my intent. If so, I apologize.

I'm from BC but I lived in Ontario (Kingston) for a few years and didn't notice much difference between how Thanksgiving was observed there as here.

 

[The Soloist]

I hope you didn't take my comment as minimizing the cultural distinctions - that was not my intent. If so, I apologize.

I'm from BC but I lived in Ontario (Kingston) for a few years and didn't notice much difference between how Thanksgiving was observed there as here.

No not at all. I was just adding more context to your post.

 

[Gradine]

Santa at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and maybe the closest thing to the an official start of the Christmas season in the US?

I mean, it's either that or the first sighting of Mariah Carey

 

[gnarlygninja]

I mean, it's either that or the first sighting of Mariah Carey

This is usually my sign, my downstairs neighbor starts blasting "All I Want For Christmas Is You" in December and keeps doing it til Christmas.

 

[Gorgon Zee]

I'm sure this is going to be an unpopular opinion but it's starting to feel like we can't really celebrate anything outside of our own birthday due to any historical context/after effects. Every holiday seems to have something bad attached to it, at least that's how it feels to me.

I feel that people should not celebrate anything without acknowledging that what you are celebrating may be a source of pain and harm to others. For me, Thanksgiving is a celebration of things to be thankful for, and a time to remind myself to be thankful. It is emphatically not a celebration of colonialization. However, I know that for many, the two are inextricably connected, so if I felt my observation was causing pain for others around me, I'd stop.

For me, this is Thanksgiving:

 

[Clint_L]

This is usually my sign, my downstairs neighbor starts blasting "All I Want For Christmas Is You" in December and keeps doing it til Christmas.

I. Freaking. HATE. That. Song. I would have to murder the downstairs neighbour, were I in your situation. No other option.

At Thanksgiving I like to think about the things I have to be thankful for. I'm adding "not having gnarlygninja's downstairs neighbour" to my list.