Thanksgiving With My Asian Family

与我的亚洲家人共度感恩节

Eat Your Crust

2021-11-24

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Identifiable by the Pumpkin Pie slices, the dry ass Turkey, and the mysterious cranberry sauce (what is that even for???), Thanksgiving is usually an excuse for a fun feast with loved ones. This year, both of us are celebrating Thanksgiving away from our parents, so we decided to reminisce on past Thanksgivings with our Asian households, and explore the way Thanksgiving has changed in meaning over the years - including when it starts to involve your S.O.'s family!!! Tune in to hear us rank ou...
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  • Hi.

  • Welcome back to eat your crust podcast.

  • I'm Crystal.

  • And I'm Jisoo.

  • We noticed last year that a lot of people enjoyed our episode titled Christmas with my Asian Family.

  • I think that was, like, maybe the last episode of 2020.

  • So we thought it might be fun to do another episode.

  • On a similar vein today we wanted to talk about Thanksgiving with my asian family.

  • Yeah, I think Thanksgiving is kind of an interesting holiday for a lot of Asian Americans, especially if you're a more recent immigrant.

  • A lot of holidays that are celebrated in the US, like Christmas, for example, do have, like, a asian culture reflection, but I think Thanksgiving is weird in that it's pretty much purely american.

  • So I know, at least for me and my family, we never really had the emotional attachment to Thanksgiving as a holiday.

  • It was more of like, oh, nice.

  • We get time off.

  • Yeah, I think I have this vague memory.

  • I don't even know if it's true, but I think my parents asked me when I was really young, like, oh, why?

  • What is Thanksgiving?

  • And then I was like, oh, I don't know.

  • This is just what we learned in school.

  • I mean, okay, I don't know if this is a real memory, but I think it just emphasizes how, like, detached from the asian culture it can be.

  • I guess in a sense, it's sort of similar to the autumn festival, but the autumn festival always falls earlier in September ish because it's based on lunar calendar and all of that.