Class 10 Festivals and Celebrations Exercise 2.2 Solutions | English Curriculum Development Centre

The main feature of American Thanksgiving is the family dinner in which they eat more food than any other day of the year consisting of dishes such as roast turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet corn and assorted fall vegetables, all food that is native to the Americans.

The parades in Thanksgiving in America include parade floats and huge balloons, usually based on cartoon characters, current Broadway shows and other topical themes. They range from small town affairs featuring the local marching band to Macy’s Thanksgiving parade through the streets of New York.

Chuseok is celebrated in Korea on the 15th day of August, according to the lunar calendar to commemorate the fall harvest and to honour one’s ancestors.

Thanksgiving began in Brazil when the former Brazilian President Gaspar Dutra visited the US and was fascinated with the holiday in 1949.

Liberated American slaves started Thanksgiving in Liberia to celebrate the freedom while also marking their troubled past.

Thanksgiving is celebrated in Barbados for a successful sugar cane harvest, called as ‘Crop Over’.

Homowo is marked in Ghana as the ending of a long famine suffered by the Ghanaians.