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Um, so the parades are nice, and so is the dog show, but...what is all this 'Thanksgiving' about?

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I was wondering the same, so I looked it up. There are lots of different stories for how it started, it looks like, but everyone seems to agree that it's originally a harvest festival.

Really? That makes sense...but it's a very big harvest festival, isn't it?

Seems like it. But I guess that back when the colonists were first coming to this country, they were awfully close to starving, and so this was a celebration of a big harvest that kept them from dying. So it's also all about their country, since it wouldn't really have existed if the first settlers hadn't found this food.

Really? But why they'd come here?

Why does anyone come to colonize another place? I'd think it'd be for wealth and the like.

Hmm...you'd think they'd teach something like that at classes...

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I'm not really sure myself. People here sure have a ton of different holidays. Something about a big fat poultry thing? And cranberry sauce. That's what I've figured out so far.

They do have a lot of celebrations, don't they?

Mmm, I've heard about the bird and the cranberries, and dressing? Dressing up?

[SO CONFUSED.]

Celebrating genocide.

[Yeah, he went there.]

Oh yes, and food. That's my understanding of it.

Really? That's...horrible.

It's morally questionable, but I'm not sure it's too unusual.

The people doing the celebrating normally don't see it that way. However... I'm not American.

I guess it's no worse than Memorial Day back home...

[Where they celebrate those who died in war.]

That depends on what Memorial Day is memorializing.

A lot of deaths.

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Mm. I don't understand American holidays, either.

This might be what they need to teach us in school!

Maybe. [Not that he would pay attention either way.] The food is good, though.

Food usually is.

Depending on who makes it.

I'm still learning how to cook some things. But I like baking.

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Mostly? It's about inviting all your family over and eating lots of food.

It's supposed to be about 'giving thanks' and all that, but as far as I can figure it's always been about food. Really.

Food isn't a bad thing...

Not unless my aunt was cooking.

What made you think Thanksgiving was bad?

Not bad, just...confusing. Like Halloween. I don't understand this world's customs!

I don't think a lot of people give it that much thought, to be honest.

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