This feast is
Only iN nORTH aMERICA
Only iN nORTH aMERICA
Only iN nORTH aMERICA
Only iN nORTH aMERICA
T H A N K S G I V I N G
One uniquely American Festivity:
THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving USA Thanksgiving in Canada
Original Significance:
Thankful for God's bounty(abundanza, bonanza) ,Thank God (for?)
Date of celebration:
4th Thursday in November 2nd Monday in October
Weekend:
Four day weekend (Thursday - Sunday) Three day weekend (Saturday - Monday)
What do they do ?
a gigantic meal with ALL the family
It's a bigger family celebration than Christmas
A family reunion
ALL Americans go home at thanksgiving .
Compare Europeans at Christmas!
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the menu
note : traditional INGREDIENTS from the new world:
turkey, mashed potato, pumpkin pie
The origins :
Thanksgiving America, Puritans,UK and USA, and Pilgrim fathers
The " Pilgrim Fathers",1621, were(=eran) English Puritans"
The first English colony in America, Jamestown, Virginia : not Puritan!
But
why? .
Let's Consider:
Who and where are these people?
In fact ,this is USA today ,
and these are a type of CATHOLICS:
"plain Catholics"(press for link)
Today's USA has
small religious groups
who ,
deliberately,
live like their ancestors ,
on farms in the country,
with
No phones, No TV, no radios, no cars, ...
Homemade (= hecho a mano) clothes,homemade
houses, homemade furniture.....
(and many home-made children, too!)
in the ASCETIC way of the Puritan "Pilgrim Fathers"
independant
hard-working
self-reliant
But they-
plain Catholics, Hutterites, and Amish - are all
pacific, !
early 17th century
:
The English Puritans,
and this includes the American "Pilgrim Fathers" ,
were(=eran) ascetics , etc
but they were NOT pacifists.
So , who were the Puritans ?
Complicated English:(letra pequeña solo para alumnos "super")
In the 16th century, in England ,
1530s: King Henry VIII
started English protestantism
- Divorced his wife, Catherine of Aragon
- Broke with Rome
- Imposed his own, invented, church on the English and on the Welsh (and soon , on the Irish) by armed force
- Shut down ALL the monasteries and took all their land and buildings, in the cities and in the countryside
- Closed and shut down all the little and not-so-little chapels that were not Parish churches on very valuable sites in the cities, and got a lot of money
- Killed about 100,000 people, mostly Catholics, who opposed any or all of this this.(The most famous are St Thomas More, his chancellor, and St John Fisher, a bishop of part of London , and his mother's confessor.)
- Prohibited numerous feasts, but not all.
- Link to my post on Halloween for some more details
But one group of protestants especially
were
NOT satisfied
with the Protestantism of the King's "CHURCH OF ENGLAND":
the Puritans.
They wanted to "purify" the church of England and the Christian religion.
AND manage everything!
A small group of Puritans
obtained the King's permission to start a colony in America.
In America from 1620.......
Nowadays Puritans do not exist in the UK or USA
Recapitulating:
About 1621:
The pilgrim fathers, then ,
and the first thanksgiving in Plymouth,Massachussetts , New England, America
With the local Indians,
after the first harvest,
eating local, not European foods :
The Pilgrim fathers, Puritans from England , with the Indians at the beginning
But
una generacion despues
despues de la muerte del cacique Indio amigo:
from very small beginnings
Puritan "New England " in America grew(=crecia) and grew and grew and grew and grew
Like ALL the English colonies in America .
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Puritan "New England " in America grew
and prospered
But
In England
Back across the Atlantic
in England
from 1642 : a Civil War.
Monarchists and Parliamentarians
Puritans : first only a part of the Parliamentary side ,
but
Puritans : THE WINNERS!
Boss Puritan: General Cromwell
Puritans took over
- the parliamentary army in the civil war,
- then the government,
- and everything in the state
- all religion included
- under their leader, the military dictator OLIVER Cromwell
AND
- Prohibited the celebration of Christmas
- prohibited .... theatre, fun, you name it, you couldn't do it.
- Committed genoicide in Ireland
- and a long etc.
Many American puritans crossed the Atlantic to Britain
to help Cromwell fight the war and govern Britain...
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| Cromwell,Puritan, brilliant General. Winner of the civil War, then Dictator. |
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| Cromwell's puritan army comitting genoicide against Irish catholics. |
Puritan Government in England was military and totalitarian
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| Using children against their parents.Stalin copied this, then Hitler.. |
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A puritan government militia house search
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When Oliver Cromwell died, Puritans were so discredited in Great Britain that they left or changed
But NOT so in AMERICA
Very many American PROTESTANTS follow Cromwell's religious laws to this day (the "westminster statutes)
American puritans disappeared , and became presbyterians, baptists , congregationalists, and even unitarians ( Like Obama's grandparents and their ancestors.)
and thousands of other things!
When Cromwell died(=murio) English puritans "evaporated"
Notes
so from this
to this:
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TOM AND JERRY AT THANKSGIVING
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