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different simple In America
Thanksgiving and Christmas are very 1 in how they began, in how they are celebrated, and in how people feel about
them. For 2 , Thanksgiving Day is
celebrated for just one day, the 4th Thursday in November. Christmas Day is
December 25th, but the Christmas Season lasts for a month or more. Thanksgiving
3 began less than four hundred
years ago while Christmas had its beginning around two thousand years ago.
Thanksgiving Day is a very 4 family
day. But Christmas is a time to include all of your friends everywhere in what
is often called the 5 of Christmas.
Thanksgiving began as a time to give thanks to God, but now it’s just a time to
go home for a feast with your family. For most Americans,
Thanksgiving is 6 a secular holiday.
Christmas began as a 7 holiday but is
only partly religious in most countries where it’s celebrated. Another
difference: Thanksgiving is a 8 kind of
holiday. The traditional Thanksgiving Dinner is the only
9 part of the celebration. Christmas is very complicated,
with special history, religion, customs, superstitions, business, art, music,
dances, drama, 10 , films, and TV.
Almost every aspect of Western culture has some special part in
Christmas.