My take on Thanksgiving

Today as you all know is Thanksgiving in the USA. As a British person I find the whole holiday both in the USA and Canada very foreign. I often get asked if we celebrate Thanksgiving in Britain. So far I haven't come up with a witty enough answer to this and I'm not sure whether I should accuse my questioner of being ignorant and stupid. Of course we don't celebrate Thanksgiving I usually state and relay some historical facts to them.


"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth"

I am not denying that to celebrate harvest time with friends and family, or be grateful of the blessings in life is a pointless holiday, on the contrary, what I find hard to digest is the cloud of media hype, sales pitches, marketing tactics and blitz commercialism, urging consumers constantly to buy what is flashed before them. What the States have done through Thanksgiving and Black Friday is total capitalism. I am not here to argue whether this is wrong or right, just to make you more aware of it.

Whilst I'll not be eating turkey today, I will be enjoying the football. After all when in Rome...