Good points, but I really do like Thanksgiving best. I have good relatives who I like hanging out with, and it’s just doing that and eating food (though I usually do an awful lot of cooking).
I’ve got too much baggage associated with Thanksgiving. Among other things, it’s when my mom blew up at me and told me we shouldn’t see each other, outside of funerals. (She is now confused about why I don’t visit, outside of funerals.)
Also, the American colonists overall were dicks to the indigenous folks, and the popular treatment of Thanksgiving helps paper over that history, or maybe that’s just where I grew up.
Good points, but I really do like Thanksgiving best. I have good relatives who I like hanging out with, and it’s just doing that and eating food (though I usually do an awful lot of cooking).
I’ve got too much baggage associated with Thanksgiving. Among other things, it’s when my mom blew up at me and told me we shouldn’t see each other, outside of funerals. (She is now confused about why I don’t visit, outside of funerals.)
Also, the American colonists overall were dicks to the indigenous folks, and the popular treatment of Thanksgiving helps paper over that history, or maybe that’s just where I grew up.