Thanksgiving Controversy

 hanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada for thanking the food and harvest of the year. Thanksgiving in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday of October whereas the United States celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November, and has a religious background that traces back to a few hundred years ago.

Although Thanksgiving is a national holiday in most of the North America, it still faces many controversies. Some people is against Thanksgiving, claiming that Thanksgiving is celebrating how the European chased off the Natives who were already living in America. In the opposing point of view, they are “celebrating a holiday that European survived, when many natives did not.” In conclusion, 46% of people according to debate.org do not want to celebrate Thanksgiving because they “don’t celebrate holocaust,” and even if they were to acknowledge Thanksgiving it “should be more like a day of remembrance. A day to look back on all the native people that were killed or sent away from their lands.” 

However, some people think Thanksgiving is a holiday that lets us express our gratitude and to enjoy turkey, not to be “chanting in pride over Indians getting slaughtered.” In conclusion, as stated by debate.org, 54% of netizens think that people who thinks that Thanksgiving have to do with genocide is just simply overthinking.