Thanksgiving

Cultural Implications of Thanksgiving, Then and Now

How did the first Thanksgiving affect the culture of the time and also how does it affect our culture today?

The first Thanksgiving Day celebrations were not necessarily held on the same day of each year. Rather they were proclaimed by various ministers and governors to celebrate specific events that might include items such as a particularly good harvest or some sort of military victory (Smith, 2003). However, the first pilgrims' also understood that they needed to increase their population in order to survive in the new world and they must increase the immigration trend to the new land. It was this understanding that lead to the first dramatizations of the Thanksgiving holiday. During this period, the tales of feast were meant to make the promise of this new world more appealing to those who were considering migrating from the fear of...
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