Also, Christmas isn't really that far away, it's like 45 days away or something, and considering how busy I am, that'll fly by faster than I would really like it to

Well, Thanksgiving is (mostly) an American thing, so I understand it when people go straight from Halloween to Christmas in other countries.

But here... it really does feel weird to me. (People totally do it for money-making reasons, though. Some people also just really like Christmas and enjoy celebrating it for, like, two months.)

It's all a matter of preference, but I don't really want to start listening to Christmas music until after Thanksgiving. :)

it was my understanding that thanksgiving was built off of native american exploitation and i just never really got into it. you eat turkey and watch football and there's not a lot to say about it. it's a boring american holiday that was born from what is largely a lie and i just never found it that important

If you think that's bad look up the true history of Christmas.

@CallistoArt

A big problem with Christmas season coming earlier is the very limited American Christmas Music playlist. If you're starting Christmas just after Halloween by mid November you've probably heard Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow a thousand times and are thoroughly sick of it. This goes for every other standard Christmas song that gets run into the ground this time of year. It's a shame, too, because there's some really beautiful Christmas music from the rest of the world that we don't get to hear over here. Not to mention Hanukkah music that gets overlooked.

@Hawas1983 That's very true!

I agree with you that we should also celebrate thankfullness but we Europeans do not celebrate Thanksgiving so we're all here are already in the Christmas mood and the Christmas decorations have already started.

You know, I had a goal of never commenting on this Wiki again (seeing how dead and sad it is nowadays), but I just have to break my silence to educate ya on something real quick

The modern "Thanksgiving" that we know is an appropriation of an Indigenous spiritual ceremony. Back before colonization days, Native tribes would hunt animals to eat, but, since animals were also their gods, they would perform dances and other such things to give thanks to the animal gods for their sacrifice- hence, "Thanksgiving."

That's why I don't recognise it anymore, personally. The European settlers took something that was not theirs and changed the meaning.

Not saying you can't celebrate it, just remember that when you see a Thanskgiving turkey from now on.

As we say in Louisiana:

Because nobody really likes Thanksgiving that much

Statisticlly:

Better for stores to get moolah from ya :p

@Callistoart I am in amarica