{"id":186075,"date":"2021-11-25T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/?p=186075"},"modified":"2025-01-22T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T05:45:08","slug":"celebrating-american-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/celebrating-american-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a new American Thanksgiving tradition rooted in reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are not unique in having an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/mid-autumn-festival-hong-kong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">autumnal harvest festival<\/a> to celebrate and give thanks for the bounty of the year. But the annual American <a href=\"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-thanksgiving-menus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanksgiving<\/a> holiday does come with a uniquely shameful set of cultural baggage. Our treatment of Native Americans is terrible, a history that many would rather forget\u2014or whitewash over with the myth of English pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians sharing a meal together in peace and harmony. Indeed, the Wampanoag tribe marks the fourth Thursday in November as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uaine.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">day of mourning<\/a> for the devastation their people suffered as a result of colonisation.<\/p>\n<h3>A teachable moment<\/h3>\n<p>And so where does that leave Americans like me? Some have decided to stop celebrating the holiday altogether or have chosen to use it as a teachable moment for their children. Others have decided to focus on simply giving thanks, while consigning the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/racism-in-hong-kong-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racist<\/a> backstory to the dust heap of history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_186078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186078\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-186078 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-turkey-900x643.jpeg\" alt=\"American Thanksgiving turkey\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-turkey-900x643.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-turkey-scaled.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-turkey-768x549.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-turkey-1536x1097.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-turkey-2048x1463.jpeg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 900px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 900\/643;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fake news: The original pilgrims probably went \u201cfowling,\u201d possibly for turkeys, but more likely for geese and ducks. (Photography: Mikkel Bergmann via Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Indeed, despite the dubious origin story, Thanksgiving would not be an American national holiday if it were not for Sarah Josepha Hale, an editor of the popular magazine <em>Godey\u2019s Lady\u2019s Book<\/em>, who campaigned for the creation of the holiday to promote unity and reconciliation during the American Civil War. As a result of her efforts, on 3 October 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, the pilgrim myth was never a large part of my family\u2019s American Thanksgiving celebrations; for us it was a day to give thanks and to be with family. And, frankly, I feel like we could all use more holidays that are centred around <a href=\"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/teachers-day-hong-kong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gratitude<\/a>, generosity, and reconciliation. So as my husband and I create family traditions for our daughter, we\u2019re emphasising the mindfulness of the holiday and the ritual of counting our blessings. And a good way to start, I think, is by flipping the narrative to celebrate the Wampanoag tribe\u2014and also learn about their heritage and history. (I think enough has been said about puritanical pilgrims, don\u2019t you?) We\u2019ll learn some (age appropriate) uncomfortable truths about American history along the way, but that is to the good.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_186079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186079\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-186079 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-native-american-900x643.jpeg\" alt=\"American Thanksgiving Native American\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-native-american-900x643.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-native-american-scaled.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-native-american-768x549.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-native-american-1536x1097.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/static.thehoneycombers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/11\/american-thanksgiving-native-american-2048x1463.jpeg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 900px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 900\/643;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrating Thanksgiving is an opportunity to recognise social injustice. (Photography: Dulcey Lima via Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>New traditions<\/h3>\n<p>And so to welcome this year\u2019s American Thanksgiving holiday, I would like to count my blessings while also being aware of my privilege. There are many things for which I am thankful (my health, my education, my job) that perhaps would not be available to me if my race and my socio-economic situation were different. I don\u2019t think this means that I have rend my clothes and wear sackcloth and ashes. But when we count our blessings, I hope our next instinct is to share those blessings with others. And not just with family and friends, but also with those who look different, or speak differently, or believe differently. And while we are sharing those blessings, to look for ideas and values that we share, that bridge our differences, that create reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are not unique in having an autumnal harvest festival to celebrate and give thanks for the bounty of the year. But the annual American Thanksgiving holiday does come with a uniquely shameful set of cultural baggage. 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