Comments on: Thanksgiving Reconsidered https://rachelsruminations.com/thanksgiving-reconsidered/ Taking the road less traveled Sun, 09 May 2021 16:32:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rachel Heller https://rachelsruminations.com/thanksgiving-reconsidered/#comment-7149 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:38:31 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=5863#comment-7149 In reply to Suzanne Fluhr.

My students always ask about that as well. “Isn’t Thanksgiving the holiday where families get together and argue?” It’s what they’ve seen over and over on TV!

]]> By: Suzanne Fluhr https://rachelsruminations.com/thanksgiving-reconsidered/#comment-7135 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:22:08 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=5863#comment-7135 Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday in the US, for all the reasons you mention. It’s just very American, celebrated regardless of religious or political persuasion. For us, it’s a time to gather with family and we always invite “foreigners” to share in this quintessential American holiday. This year we invited a Greek scientist who just started doing a post doc in my husband’s lab. On the way to our son’s house, we explained some of the “nuances”, including the likely possibility of family pathology to be on display. She laughed and said that she would feel right at home since family pathology is likely to be on display during just about all Greek family meals.

]]> By: Rachel Heller https://rachelsruminations.com/thanksgiving-reconsidered/#comment-7002 Sat, 28 Nov 2015 04:24:40 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=5863#comment-7002 In reply to Shobha.

Thanks for the support, Shobha!

]]> By: Shobha https://rachelsruminations.com/thanksgiving-reconsidered/#comment-6995 Fri, 27 Nov 2015 22:52:08 +0000 https://rachelsruminations.com/?p=5863#comment-6995 No one can take your childhood memories from you! You are as American as you feel and I know you feel American. The citizenship renunciation was more a formality that you were forced to take because of screwy tax rules.

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