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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:27 AM
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What do blacks, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists do on Thanksgiving?
Oh Hispanics and Asians too

See when my white Protestant ancestors (okay I not directly related to them) came over to this country to find their religous freedom (okay they were Puritan whackjobs that got kicked out of Europe-even the Dutch couldn't tolerate them) they celebrated their good fortune with a bountiful feast (okay there is evidence of cannabalism in Jamestown) from their toils in the fields (okay they were mostly merchants who could grow a weed in a turd pile) and celebrated with their new found friends (okay they were sizing of the Indians for the slaughter that was coming) at Plymouth Rock (okay Berkeley Plantation in Va.) a tradition that became instantly cemented into the American way of life (okay Lincoln established it 2 1/2 centuries later).

So what do all of those who aren't white Protestant and therefore moral do tomorrow? I have always been curious about that.

Is it some sort of Kwanzah-givings thing or Hannakah-fest or something? The Catholics I think go to church but they pretty much do that anymore being so full of sin as they are.

Enlighten me.
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omshanti Donating Member (851 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:28 AM
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1. I give thanks that I am not a fundie conservative dittohead.
Then I eat a lot of food.
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:28 AM
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2. They all go out for chinese.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:29 AM
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5. Right!
BRILLIANT!
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:31 AM
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9. remember that episode of "The Bob Newhart Show"??
where it's thanksgiving and all the guys (Jerry, Howard, Mr. Carlin and Bob) get together to watch football and order chinese--moo goo gai pan? and they get drunk. Actually sounds like a great way to spend the day.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:28 AM
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3. uhhh eat turkey...stuffing...etc and watch a little football
That's about it. Also, usually a politcal argument with my parents.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:30 AM
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7. Yeah I have noticed that a lot of blacks play football that day
the other ones must be Catholic and the owner of course is Jewish.

:spank:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:29 AM
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4. I'm making a turkey.
:shrug:

My Catholic family (God help us) never went to church on Thanksgiving, because that would have messed up getting the bird in the oven for a 2 o'clock (has to be every year) dinner time...so I figure my mother had gotten some sort of special dispensation, but I could be wrong. ;)
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:39 AM
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14. We never went to church on Thanksgiving---it is a secular holiday-
not a Holy Day in the Catholic Church.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:42 AM
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15. Of course not, but where I'm from we were "strongly encouraged" to
attend church every morning. You were not??? It's amazing how different parishes can be. I went to church every morning before school until I was 18...even on days off, such as Thanksgiving.
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candy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:45 AM
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18. Wow! Every day? I never had that preassure,even in parochial school.n/t
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:46 AM
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19. Every day. 7:30 then down the street to school.
N/T
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:29 AM
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6. Festivus! Twice per year, for the restofus!
The feats of strength start tomorrow at noon, sharp!
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Feathered Fish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:31 AM
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8. Question:
Why do Canucks celebrate it at the beginning of Oct.? I really don't know.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:33 AM
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11. Metric system ....I think
I think they use a metric calender up there (French metric too) so it comes earlier also it causes them to punt on third down.
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Feathered Fish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:35 AM
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12. LOL n/t
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:31 AM
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10. This RC will be eating ...
First Tony and I will be serving at our community Thansgvining dinner from 11-1, then head home to prepare our own feast for the family who make it here through the snowstorm.
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buckettgirl Donating Member (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:36 AM
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13. Since when did Thanksgiving really have a religious connotation?
The Puritians had a Thanksgiving, but you're right, it was Pres. Lincoln who finally established it as a national holiday. At that point, wasn't it just about getting together and giving thanks?
I really didn't think that, at that time, religion factored in, did it?
I'm Pagan in a Catholic family...religion was never mentioned, and that was fine with me.
In my family, we go to grandma's (still) gossip, drink whiskey sours, and eat alot...thats how its been for as long as I can remember...Is it really that much different from anyone else??
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:53 AM
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22. Actually the Pilgrims and the Puritans were two separate groups
Others have posted here more information about that. I'm not an historian--I just know the assorted odd useless factoid.
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buckettgirl Donating Member (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:04 PM
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25. OH, yes, I should have known that...
I know the Pilgrams are protestant and were being persecuted in England...I don't know what I was thinking when I was typing lol :)...

But my question is: When Thanksgiving first became a national holiday, was it associated with religion? It didn't become tradition until after it was a national holiday, so once it became a tradition, was it then affiliated with religion? :shrug:
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:16 PM
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26. At the time it became a holiday
...most folks at least pretended to be religious, didn't they? At least folks who "mattered" (meaning white folks in "society").
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:56 PM
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34. Sorta like the NFL and the CFL
right?
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:43 AM
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16. I and all the other Jews I know
celebrate Thanksgiving, since it's a secular holiday. I don't know what Ultra-Orthodox Jews do, maybe some of the more extreme factions don't bother.

Not one of my African-American friends is too big on Thanksgiving (all of them are slave-descendents, so huge surprise there), but their families still celebrate it. Strangely (or maybe not), all the Arab-Americans I know are Christian, so have no idea about Muslims, but I imagine no matter what your religion, it's a holiday for people who live in the US, so there doesn't seem like there should be any conflict with religious practice.

Now Native Americans - I seriously wonder what THEY do.
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Socialist Dem Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:44 AM
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17. Thanksgiving
is a national holiday not a religious one. So "blacks, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists" do whatever people tend to do on Thanksgiving.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:47 AM
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20. Gee, if I recall,
Thanksgiving was a secular holiday, and a great excuse to load up on turkey, side dishes and pie, and crash put in front to the football game on TV. Ain't nothing wrong with that.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:54 PM
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32. Oh
Thanks
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:48 AM
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21. they smoke pot and listen to Van Morrison
heathens
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:55 PM
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33. What time should I come over?
:smoke:
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:58 AM
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23. Most of them eat a big meal with the family.
Thanksgiving has never been a big religious holiday. Especially for Catholics--the Puritans were not fond of Popery. However, just about everybody enjoys having a day or two off.

Calvin Trillin suggests an alternative to turkey: (In our family)...Thanksgiving has often been celebrated away from home. It was at other people's Thanksgiving tables that I first began to articulate my spaghetti carbonara campaign--although, since we were usually served turkey, I naturally did not mention that the campaign had been inspired partly by my belief that turkey is basically something college dormitories use to punish students for hanging around on Sunday... I reminded everyone how refreshing it would be to hear sports announcers call some annual tussle the Spaghetti Carbonara Day Classic.

I even had a ready answer to the occasional turkey fancier at those meals who insist that spaghetti carbonara was almost certainly not what our forebears ate at the first Thanksgiving dinner. As it happens, one of the things I give thanks for every year is that those people in the Plymouth Colony were not my forebears. Who wants forebears who put people in the stocks for playing the harpsichord on the Sabbath or having an innocent little game of pinch and giggle?

www.rlrubens.com/Thanksgiving.html

Going out for Chinese is another option.
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:03 PM
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24. It's never been a religious holiday around here
nobody I know went to church on Thanksgiving.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:18 PM
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27. Gluttonous Orgy
Then a little pie.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:47 PM
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30. I think that covers it
quite nicely.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:54 PM
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31. What time should I come over?
:bounce:
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:40 PM
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28. as a Catholic
We just spend time with family, pray and give thanks, could care less about those puritan fucks :D.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:43 PM
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29. Pray for em
:)
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forgethell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:56 PM
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35. Well, when I was
young, the Baptist church that I belonged to had a joint Thanksgiving service every year with the local synagogue. The black churchs also celebrated. I don't know about the Caatholic church, but why not?

Thanksgiving is an American, not a Christian, or Protestant clelbration. Oh, and the Pilgrims were not at jamestown.

But they will probably do what I intend to do: go see family, stuff like a pig, sleep away the afternoon in front of a ball game. Life is good, don't be such a cynic.
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:57 PM
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36. I once tried to tell an Asian Indian man
how to cook a turkey breast for Thanksgiving. Well he and his wife pulled the plastic thing out and slathered the whole thing with spices and undercooked it.

They were sick the entire weekend. Something got lost in the translation!

Since then, I have refrained from giving helpful cooking directions to people who haven't totally mastered American English.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:58 PM
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37. An accident
surely it was an accident

:evilgrin:
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Amaya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:01 PM
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38. Well,
Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 01:02 PM by Amaya
I was brought up Catholic/Jewish and now practice Buddhism, to some extent. (Damn, I'm confused)

Thanksgiving is actually my favorite holiday. It's a food thing.
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