Annie Rumpf's Culture Of Thanksgiving

Every family has its way of spending holidays together. Some cultures, families gather in a big groups but others like to make it simple. The American culture has one big holiday, which is the thanksgiving. The thanksgiving celebration is on the fourth Thursday in November. In this interview summery, I will share some of my interviewee’s culture in thanksgiving. Annie Rumpf, shared with us some of her own thanksgiving’s memories, and told us about her family’s traditions. in the interview, we diseased a lot of Rumpf’s traditions in thanksgiving such as, thanksgiving food, table manners, and thanksgiving back in the childhood days and now. Those point gave me some perspective about Americans’ thanksgiving.

Americans usually eat a turkey as the main dish in thanksgiving. Although, every family has its own sets of the dishes beside the turkey. Rumpf’s shared with me some of her family’s dishes,

Annie: my family, from both sides, they usually bring the same things, so one person specialized in the green beans casserole, and my mom always makes the pumpkin pie. Although, we usually have green beans casserole, pumpkin pie, apple pie, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce and cheesy potatoes. Those are the main dishes in the

Culture and society affect the image people have about the holidays in the family. Indeed, some families like to stick with their traditions in holidays, such as Annie’s family. Annie’s family usually have their thanksgiving at Annie’s family house. The only thing that Annie thinks has changed is that all the children table’s members have grown, thus, they talk about more important things around the world or at least around the states. For example, they might talk about football teams or about who win the NBA this year. Talking about the changes in thanksgiving expanded to the spatial