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One thing I don't understand about American culture is thanksgiving and how it interracts with Christmas. If your family meets up for thanksgiving does that mea

• caseysoftware 7y ago
  It really depends on a variety of things. If people are spread out geographically, if they travel for one, they don't for the other. If people are relatively local, often one holiday is with one side of the family while the other holiday is the other. After a generation of couples having 2-3 kids and those kids growing up to have 1-2 kids, it makes sense that "extended" families aren't all that extended any more. One of my grandmothers was the oldest of 7, while both my parents were oldest of two, and I'm the oldest of two. Add in our physical distances and it's easy through honest poor scheduling (vs malice) for a grandparent, sibling, etc to be 100% on their own for a holiday.
• toasterlovin 7y ago
  As an American, I wish we would just combine Thanksgiving and Christmas and take a week off. The mere month between major holidays is weird. And, culturally, Christmas is a bigger deal, but Thanksgiving has the guaranteed long weekend, so it’s the one you can count on traveling for.
  • krapht 7y ago
    Thanksgiving is for one side of the family, Christmas for the other. Isn't that how most people do it?
  • Marsymars 7y ago
    Or move it to October, like Canada, since Americans don't seem to get a holiday in October.