Thanksgiving: 0 - Black Friday: 1

As we have already known, Thanksgiving is a traditional holiday in United State and Canada. People here celebrate this day to give thanks for the blessing of harvest and of the preceding years. Even though, our modern technologies today play a central role in securing our food sources, the "blessing" and most other natural phenomenons do not contribute as much as before, people still keep this traditional holiday as a mean for family members to gather and have precious times together. There is always not enough 'family time' for anyone, so this tradition is kind of useful.

Then there is the Black Friday, appeared out of nowhere and conquered the world. People in the United State have been celebrating Thanksgiving for 402 years and eventually, the entrepreneurs discovered that they can make more money from this holiday by giving discounts on overpriced goodies. It is natural for people to go shopping when they have spare time, it is close to Christmas and the kids come back from schools. The holiday boost sales in all store, and the discounts boost them even to a higher level. Rich people are smart people, when the neighbor supermarket gives discount on Black Friday, they immediately copy that to their stores and eventually, the whole country is on discount. Consumers start to develop a habit of camping outside of Walmart or BestBuy or other retailers to wait until they have a chance to get a discounted item they wish for. Meanwhile, the retailers start to raise price on some particular items in order to discount them without losing profit on Black Friday. Also, if something was not sold well during the last year, it will also get a discount. The business people know too well that those baiting items will attract a lot of customer to their stores and usually, they will also buy things that are not discounted, or even things that are getting a raise in price. Smart move.

Soon enough, Black Friday has became one of the most noticeable culture presses of the United State in the eyes of people around the world. Human is a weird species. If we like something very much, and we can not have it, we will try to copy it at any cost. America has long been a dream land, a great figure for people around the world to look up to (except North Koreans, their country is already the best of the bests, with their great leader Kim Jong Un who has conquered all poverty with his mighty godly power. For them, the United State is the evilest place on earth and its citizens are living in hell on earth... so yeah.). However, many people will never ever have a chance to move to this country and experience its culture, so copying the cultures from it is their only option. Those cultures are not necessary compatible with their owns, but they can still be adopted. Halloween could be considered as an example, even if it is not originated from the United State, but Hollywood has made it an 'American thingy' and now young people all over the world are going crazy with it. Basically, no one knows anything about the All-Hallows-Eve of the Christians, they just know that "Monsters and ghosts festival" is cool, at least on the widescreen. Black Friday was also in their wishlist for a long time now. Recently, Spain, Vietnam and many other countries have officially made Black Friday as their thing while there is no holiday associated with it. Cool huh? People still flood the supermarkets and retailer's stores no matter what. Entrepreneurs get their big profits from that.

Sadly, Thanksgiving is also an American thing, but nobody cares because it does not provide profit nor be a cool monster-ghost festival.