Thanksgiving Messages And Feasts For Asian-Indian-Americans

Thanksgiving for our family is quite interesting. We all grew up vegetarian, and even though we’ve added chicken to our daily diet for the protein, and salmon for some, turkey is very off the menu. So are sweet potatoes with marshmallows, as my mother likes to say. We have decided to go with Indian fusion, since it helps with gluten-free allergies in the family, with having pie at the end. The menu varies every year; 2019 is the first one in a while where we haven’t deep-fried dough to make puris.

We still keep up the holiday. For one thing, our family uses the time off to try to get together and enjoy each other’s company. For another, my dad recorded the Charlie Brown special on VHS when we were kids, and we have a special fondness in our heart for it and the comic strip.

Thanksgiving is a holiday that isn’t really meant to favor immigrants. We all know it’s a propaganda holiday that washes over the fact that the Pilgrims who would “break bread” with the Native Americans would later be complicit in genocide and erasing cultures across the continent. Abraham Lincoln also made the holiday official during the Civil War. It’s highly possible that his intention was to ensure that Americans would forget that the first English settlement was in a southern state, Virginia. Or maybe he wanted people to not lose hope as the…