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Why doesn't London England celebrate Thanksgiving?In: Thanksgiving |
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Think about it for a minute. The U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving as a holiday to commemorate the first successful harvest in America by the Pilgrims who had emigrated from England. The Pilgrims were celebrating their own good fortune in the New World. On the other hand their home country was just as happy that the Pilgrims had left, as they had not wanted to submit to the Church of England. England was already long-established as an agricultural nation, and a special harvest celebration - especially for the good fortune of a group of what today would be called separatists - was simply not on anyone's radar.
To use a (much) less subtle illustration, one could ask why England doesn't celebrate Lincoln's birthday or July 4th, for example.
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