THANKSGIVING DAY

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday in North America to thank and feel grateful at the end of the harvest season. Thanksgiving is an official holiday in the United States that falls on the fourth Thursday in November. In Canada, Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday in October.

First Thanksgiving

The first Thanksgiving Day was held in 1619 at the British Colony, now called Berkeley Plantation in Virginia, and in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621.

Long weekend

In the United States, Thanksgiving holidays that always fall on Thursday are the first day of a 4-day long weekend. For some employees (78% in 2007), Thanksgiving and the following Friday are paid salaries. Apart from that, employees with a leave system that can be taken at any time can request leave on the day after Thanksgiving. 

The day after Thanksgiving is Friday, called Black Friday, which marks the start of the Christmas shopping season. Most stores have been open since early morning (usually since 5:00 a.m.), and sell goods with a loss / warehouse sale system so that buyers want to come. It is called Black Friday because on that day their bookkeeping balance usually changes from red (loss) to black (profit). Large stores such as electronics, supermall, and the like are usually full of people waiting in line to buy goods from Thursday afternoon. Some electronic stores have formed a queue of 100-200 people to buy goods on sale. Shops are usually open on Fridays at 5am, but the queues have sometimes begun since Thursday at 5pm. Supermal sometimes opens at 12 midnight and shops in it sell sale items. On this special day it is not uncommon for supermal visitors at midnight to become hundreds or even thousands of people.

Transportation

Thanksgiving in North America is also an opportunity to gather with family and relatives. Wednesday before Thanksgiving and Sunday, the last day of the Thanksgiving holiday, are the busiest days for air transportation, trains, intercity buses and highways.

Celebration tradition

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

In the United States there is a tradition of enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with family, friends and relatives. Turkey is the main dish, so Thanksgiving is also known as "Turkey Day". Turkeys are usually eaten with cranberry sauce and other dishes such as potato puree, boiled corn, pumpkin pie (the rest of Halloween), and various other autumn vegetables. When enjoying Thanksgiving food, people usually tell each other about the good things they have experienced.

Thanksgiving holidays began as a United States national holiday to thank and praise God. The legacy of religious values ​​continues in the form of tradition to say a prayer before enjoying Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving celebration (Thursday) is a celebration that is not very commercial. Even though there are Thanksgiving greeting cards for sale in stores, not many people like to buy them. In addition to food and drinks to be enjoyed together, people also usually do not expect to be given gifts, and indeed there is no tradition of exchanging gifts. Children's decorations are usually used as Thanksgiving decorations at home. But today Friday after Thanksgiving is a sign of the start of the shopping season that ends until the New Year where people start shopping on a large scale

In New York City, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held once a year every Thanksgiving in downtown Manhattan. The parade features vehicles decorated with interesting themes, decorated vehicles featuring television celebrities, scenes from Broadway musicals, big balloon-shaped cartoon characters, and public high school marching bands. The parade usually ends with an ornate vehicle boarded by Santa. That is to remind people that the Christmas shopping season has arrived.

Thanksgiving parade was also held in many other cities, like in Plymouth, Houston, Philadelphia (reputedly the oldest Thanksgiving parade), and Detroit which is the biggest parade of the year. In the New York metropolitan area, Stamford, Connecticut organizes Macy's march rivals using different large balloon characters.

Christmas shopping season according to the tradition of the United States begins the day after Thanksgiving. The shopping tradition the day after Thanksgiving has been started since the 1930s. Crowded Americans are looking for bargain items at discounted prices for the Christmas season. For shopping centers in America, the day after Thanksgiving is