The holiday Americans call Thanksgiving has a dark history – one they don’t teach children in schools, one that doesn’t involve feasting tables shared between multiple cultures and one that doesn’t have a happy ending. Yet the holiday persists and is now attached to other traditions, some which seem beneficial, or at worst innocuous, and some that have new negative implications.
For this discussion, you will take a stance on the holiday, and how the country should address questionable implications of continued celebration, as well as discuss some family “traditions” of the holiday by responding to the following:
- Do some research about the actual first Thanksgiving (not the one elementary school children celebrate, but the actual history