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Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Are you seriously suggesting the USA's Thanksgiving celebration is an ethnic cultural issue? :eek:

My (mild) objection is to the increasingly widespread adoption of formerly American only festivities here which surely dilutes our own cultural identity.

I'm still amazed that schools here have "Proms" these days and don't get me started about "Trick or Treat"...

Not ethnic but nontheless cultural.

spadoosh

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Enough that Costco are running an advert to promote it? No way..

I think this ad is one US import too far.

What next, Independence Day celebrations? :eek:

Of course!!

Were still trying to finalise what date it should be though.

spadoosh

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Are you seriously suggesting the USA's Thanksgiving celebration is an ethnic cultural issue? :eek:

My (mild) objection is to the increasingly widespread adoption of formerly American only festivities here which surely dilutes our own cultural identity.

I'm still amazed that schools here have "Proms" these days and don't get me started about "Trick or Treat"...

I was always under the impression that the americans stole thanksgiving from us. We called it the harvest festival.

I remember at school wed do something every year to celebrate fruit and veg having been harvested. Wed celebrate this by bringing tins of food in to give to people.

Turkey is the meat of choice because the pilgrims hunted wild turkeys. When thanksgiving became a national holiday eating turkey was already quite prevalent for festivals etc. So it was the natural meat of choice.

Incidentally harvest festival seems to have passed me by again this year without seeing any reference.

pulliptears

spadoosh wrote: »

I was always under the impression that the americans stole thanksgiving from us.

Many American traditions have root in English festivals, even Prom loosely relating to debutante balls and the like. Of course this doesn't stop folk yelling "AMERICANISM!!!!" at everything though.

Bear in mind the English, French, Dutch, Scottish and Spanish etc initially colonised the US before it's independence so unsurprising that migrants from those countries would take their traditions with them.

robatwork

I'm pretty unimpressed with Halloween too.

onwards&upwards

spadoosh wrote: »

Incidentally harvest festival seems to have passed me by again this year without seeing any reference.

Do you know any kids in primary school or in things like brownies or scouts?

If you do, you’ll know that the annual ‘bring an old tin of peaches to send to an old folk’s home’ tradition is still going strong!

twhitehousescat

who is jimmy?, i know McDonald had a farm , but where is jimmy,s