Thanksgiving/Black Friday

Thanksgiving:
When Thanksgiving came along, I was asked more than once the question, "what do Chinese people do for thanksgiving?" When proposed with this question, i did not know how to respond. I can not speak for the entire Chinese race, there's a lot of us. But i can speak for myself. My family has what people may call a "tv dinner." We all sit down to a big dinner with a lot of family. We spread our food on a red table cloth and begin making our plates. I would have to say that my family is pretty Americanized since my brother and sister came to America at an early age, they learned about the "American way of life" through stories from friends. When i was born, my siblings were the same age as i am now. Therefore they wanted to provide for me the "American" life that my parents were not able to provide for them. As i grew older i became only aware of the "American way of life" and do not know how traditional Chinese families celebrate American holidays. My life only became more "American" when my brother met an American when i was at the age of 7 and she became more of a mother figure to me than my chines workaholic mom. We began decorating the house for every big holiday and we even hosted parties for them. I felt that i was living the American way of life when asked that question.
Black Friday:
A couple years back , my family and i decided to leave the house at 1:00 am after thanksgiving dinner to go shopping upstate. It was one of the worse decisions we ever made. We shopped for over 7 hrs straight and i was extremely tired, not to mention, it was also a drag to wait on a long line for ever different store we went to. Ever since then we have never gone shopping on black Friday as a family ever again. People have gone separately to different stores by themselves but no one really wanted to go shopping, they just went out to see how it was. I went out to the city this past Friday and i was shoved multiple times by busy shoppers in the streets. I also regret the decision to walk through a crowded street just to save myself a few extra blocks to walk. I vow to never go shopping on black Friday.