Why Americans DISAGREE about Thanksgiving

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[@cristinamoyano9365]

I totally agree with you

[@EnglishCoach3Ts]

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[@patriksivak7525]

hi my name is Patrik and i come Slovakia from ( a small country in Europe union) Also a lot of people are divided in their opinions in my country . The most in my lifetime. Even my children have different opinions than my :) But we always like each other and we like spending time together. we have to lern, more to listen to different Opinions and try to comprehend or at least to respect them

[@EnglishCoach3Ts]

Yes. It is so important to try and understand and respect each other. Thank you so much for your comment, Patrik!

[@lilehua]

Tanya, this reminds me a very popular and bestselling history book in China, which is all about the tradition of human sacrifice during Shang Dynasty (1700BC - 1100BC). After Zhou Dynasty took down Shang Dynasty, one famous man, also the brother of the King of Zhou Dynasty, destroied all the etiquettes and materials of those brutal sacrifice and killing, and instead he developed a totally different moral standard and etiquette. Thank you for letting me more about the origin of Thanksgiving holiday.

[@EnglishCoach3Ts]

Thank you so much for sharing that! It is fascinating to me how history is connected across cultures!

[@salvesolo6447]

Dear Tanya, thanks a lot for this video, It is really interesting and useful. And thanks for sharing your thoughts. Of course, I totally agree with you about the importance of education. It is vital no matter who you are or where you live

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[@mohammadghaneei-my8xx]

whatever the history had been, it is a great tradition in which you Americans celebrate gratitude I think. I'm a woman from Iran. it is the first video of yours I watched. it was interesting to me.❤

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I am glad you found it interesting. Thank you for watching!

I will be 60 years old in March of next year. I am Brazilian and I agree with your words. Education is essential for everyone, especially so that children grow up with virtues and knowledge based on values ​​that are indispensable today. God save America and Brazil.

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[@EnglishCoach3Ts]

I think your thoughts are so wise. Knowledge based on values is so important.

[@Vera62galeskas]

I agree to disagree 😂...my opinion...when We learned the true storie we feel like we were deceived. But importants things happened in that time, they learned from each other, I think there were European American that care about natives e fought with them. So, in the end we have a holiday to remember, we have a holiday to learn and teach all the generations about being thankful. Is a good thing to have our friends and family together.

[@EnglishCoach3Ts]

I love how you are using great phrases like - agree to disagree and in the end. I agree that having friends and family together is a good thing and I think it is particularly important now.

[@rodriguereal6665]

I learn a lot of thing about Thanksgiving, Thank you Tanya. I'm from Quebec ,Canada.

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Thanks!

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[@RegnumV]

Dear Tanya, Since you’re asking for my opinion, I will offer it with the utmost respect. When I was about five, my parents took a vacation to the sea. It was my first time seeing the ocean. Its gentle, soothing sound entranced me, and I spent the day running along the shore, playing a game with the waves. They would chase my feet, and I would try to keep them dry. At one point, I decided to bring some seawater to show my mother. I cupped it in my small hands and ran to her, but by the time I got there, my hands were empty-the water had slipped through my fingers. I returned, tried again, and again, but no matter how hard I tried, the water always escaped. After five attempts, I realized: no matter how much I wanted to hold on to it, water was meant to flow, not to be held. This memory makes me think about traditions. Are traditions always wise? Are they always worth keeping? In Bolivia, for example, at the witches' market El Mercado de las Brujas in La Paz, people sell dried, stillborn llamas. Why? To bury under new homes as offerings to Pachamama. Similar practices have existed in Nigeria for centuries. Are these traditions wise? Hardly. They’re unsettling. Yet traditions are a part of the cultural DNA of a nation, shaping its people and binding them together. This is why I refrain from judging other cultures’ traditions. Judging them breeds conflict, even civil discord. My place, then, is to honor the culture and traditions of any people gracious enough to welcome me. Finally, the word “Thanksgiving” itself is interesting. Thanksgiving always involves gratitude toward someone or something. The Mayflower, with its 102 passengers, brought Puritans escaping religious persecution in England. The ship arrived in November 1620, the cold of winter setting in. Many founders didn’t survive that first winter, but we remember this: they were Christians, prepared to endure hardship for their faith in Christ, embracing His commandment: “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” It’s clear to me that these settlers could not have survived without help from the Native Americans. It was the Indigenous people who shared their food and agricultural methods, such as the “three sisters” planting technique of corn, beans, and squash. The Puritans, as Christians, reciprocated that kindness. Look at the sky. It’s never still; it moves, and it moves in cycles. This motion shows that time exists, that it’s passing. It slips away like water, and we cannot hold onto it, cannot stop it. That means everything around us is temporary. We live in temporary states, belonging to temporary nations. Traditions are likewise transient, important only to a specific people in a specific era. Thanksgiving is deeply meaningful to Americans, serving to unite the American nation in this moment. But I wonder, do the Indigenous people, confined to reservations with only two percent of the land that once belonged to their ancestors who saved the settlers’ lives, feel like joining this celebration? And time continues to slip through our fingers, unstoppable and inevitable.

[@EnglishCoach3Ts]

Beautifully written and beautifully said. Thank you for sharing something so thought provoking. I think it is difficult to come up with a black and white answer to this colorful history. We don't have to like all the colors, but when we start deleting some we find that even the "ugly" colors contributed to the beauty.

[@ibrahimbarambangan6946]

Can you correct my sentence question 1. Where are you from? Or Where do you from?

[@RegnumV]

Where are you from

[@RegnumV]

I do not know what I think. I think I think nothing of it.

[@EnglishCoach3Ts]

That is surprising to me. I would think that you of all people would have something to add to the discussion.

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