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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2019-11-27 12:47 p.m., wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 05:59:58 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton

>> On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 8:26:30 AM UTC-5, A Moose in
>> Love wrote:
>>> The other day Rachael Ray said that the US is the only country in
>>> the world that celebrates this holiday. Maybe she meant that
>>> other countries do not celebrate Thanksgiving on the same day?
>>
>> Or perhaps she's just ignorant. Many people are.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
> Strictly speaking she is accurate, you are celebrating the Pilgrim
> Fathers arriving, the rest of us don't.

Having grown up in Canada I can tell you that the common understanding
about our Thanksgiving is that it is based on the Pilgrim fathers. That
may be because the initial influx of settlers in this country were
Loyalists coming here are refugees from the US. It may also be that most
of us lived close to the American border so we were exposed to American
culture.