Cultural Rituals: Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, And Thanksgiving

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Other event rituals are the cookout/eat-outs my immediate family and I enjoy for days like Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Independence Day, Christmas, and Thanksgiving.
Cultural Rituals
Cultural rituals has for the longest time been misrepresented as some sort of mystical practice carried on by tribal people. But what it really is, it’s a regular practice of event that creates the structures of groups or communities. Some cultural rituals can include celebration of holidays, such as Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Mardi Gras, etc. and what people do every year in lieu of celebrating those times.

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