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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
I can think of a number of things.
First of all, it's expensive. (Yeah, I know, so is Christmas, but still.)
Secondly, the Thanksgiving story is a myth at best, and colonist propaganda at worst. The settlers didn't have a big celebratory feast with the Indians and sing the medieval equivalent of Kumbaya. They used the knowledge Squanto and others gave them, and had their own feast, which the Indians wanted no part of, because they knew what would happen come winter when they didn't have all that extra food anymore.
First of all, it's expensive. (Yeah, I know, so is Christmas, but still.)
Secondly, the Thanksgiving story is a myth at best, and colonist propaganda at worst. The settlers didn't have a big celebratory feast with the Indians and sing the medieval equivalent of Kumbaya. They used the knowledge Squanto and others gave them, and had their own feast, which the Indians wanted no part of, because they knew what would happen come winter when they didn't have all that extra food anymore.