Analysis of Thanksgiving and Black Friday/Buy Nothing Day and AWOL

Thanksgiving being the day where we (most Americans) spend time with our families eating turkey and lots of other foods and being thankful generally for the food we eat and the family we have. This holiday traces back to the slautering of natives which does not quite match up. Then the day after thanksgiving, (most Americans) go out to all the sales and buy things they maybe did not really need until it was on sale. Families rush out early in the morning to their favorite stores and buy as much as they can afford or as much as they can get their hands on. Black Friday is closely related to one of the dominant frameworks of America, capitalism, the more money we spend, the higher the increase of our gross domestic product which is everyone's income or the amount of money everyone spends, and if lots of people spend lots of money on black Friday, the GDP will increase. Also relating to one of the main components of capitalism, the free market, the person selling the items can make their prices as low as they want as long as they still make profit, if the prices are low and affordable, more people will buy. But not only do Americans spend money on black Friday, they also spend money of the food they plan to eat on thanksgiving, the costumes they dress up in on halloween, the christmas decorations, the christmas presents, the super sweet 16s, the chocolates, roses, and cards on valentines day. In general, it seems to be that America looks for reasons to spend money, so these holidays and traditions are thrown at us so we can increase the GDP. This also relates to another dominant framework of the American way of life, government, considering that the government controls the flow of money in our economic system, they play a part in this family based holiday. Lincoln even created this holiday as the president, as part of the government. This holiday, and other holidays in addition, relate to the American way of life which is built up of mainly, economics, and government.