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I'm not. I'm blaming capitalism and cultural imperialism, for the forced import of a piece of American culture.
Who's 'forcing' it? It's spreading because people have fun with it.
Shops and media which profit from increased sales and viewership. Same as the recent "black Friday sales" nonsense despite the fact that we don't have Thanksgiving.
Incidentally, I wouldn't mind Thanksgiving. It'd need adapting to the Australian context, but it feels a hell of a lot less commercial than Hallowe'en…which is probably why there hasn't been any attempt to bring it here.
Dude Thanksgiving is like the most imperialist holiday, it’s pretty much American propaganda about how the native Americans were totally cool with colonialism and in the modern context is about buying lots of excessive food. Christmas is the capitalist day but Thanksgiving is not much better
American or Canadian propaganda that was slapped on 1/12 or 1/13 of the entire Native American harvest festivals. I don't remember if there were 12 or 13, but their version of Thanksgiving happened that many times per year.
We just took one of those days and slapped a coat of Union Jack paint all over it. That's also why Canada celebrates their Thanksgiving earlier than we do.