Name: Friendsgiving 「朋友感恩節」從哪來？答案跟想像完全不同！ (Friendsgiving, explained)
Uploaded: 2025-11-26T21:01:30.000Z
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November can be a busy time of the year, so it's helpful to know a few things in advance, like what are the shipping times for packages?

十一月對很多人來說是一年中最忙的時候，所以提前知道一些事情會很有幫助，比如包裹的寄送時間。

And will you be going home for the holidays?

Millions of people in the US make the decision to travel during this time.

在美國，有數百萬人會在這段期間決定返鄉。

In the past few decades, an option besides going home for a Thanksgiving family dinner has emerged.

但在過去幾十年，除了回家吃感恩節大餐之外，也出現了新的選項。

Okay, I tell you what, how about if I cook dinner at my place. I'll make it just like Mom's.

好吧，我跟你們說，要不要來我家吃飯？我會煮得跟媽媽做的一樣。

Will you make the mashed potatoes with the Lumps?

The hit 90s TV sitcom Friends has been associated with the popularization of Friendsgiving.

90年代超夯的影集《六人行》常被認為是推廣「Friendsgiving」的原因之一。

It's like the end of the note where I'm gonna say, oh yeah, Friendsgiving, yeah.

就是那個字結尾，我會說「喔對，Friendsgiving，沒錯」。

But contrary to popular opinion, Friendsgiving did not start with Friends.

但和普遍印象不同，Friendsgiving 不是從《六人行》開始的。

It's had a long history of giving people a chance to reinvent the holiday entirely.

它其實有更長的歷史，讓人們能重新定義這個節日。

Friendsgiving is a combination of the words Friends and Thanksgiving.

Friendsgiving 是 Friends 和 Thanksgiving 的組合字。

And right here is about where the rules defining Friendsgiving stop.

而這大概也是關於 Friendsgiving 唯一真正有規則的地方。

Friendsgiving can be whatever you want it to be.

Friendsgiving 可以是你想要的任何形式。

It can be the actual Thanksgiving, or it can be a potluck in the weeks before Thanksgiving.

它可以在真正的感恩節當天，也可以是感恩節前幾週的百樂餐聚會。

The concept of having dinner with your friends on or around Thanksgiving does show up in media earlier than Friends,

在《六人行》之前，朋友們在感恩節前後聚餐的概念就已經出現在媒體中，

但當時還沒有一個統一的名稱。

You can see the concepts of it, however, on 1973's A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,

例如 1973 年《查理布朗的感恩節》，就能看到類似的概念。

this delightful movie centers around a Thanksgiving meal shared amongst friends.

這部可愛的電影，就是以朋友們共享感恩節餐點為主題。

In the early '90s, Living Single had Thanksgiving episodes too.

90 年代初期，《Living Single》也有以感恩節為主題的劇集。

由 Yamilo 主導的那集尤其突出。

The actual use of the word Friendsgiving doesn't show up until 2007 in Usenet and Twitter posts.

但 Friendsgiving 這個詞真正出現，是在 2007 年的 Usenet 與 Twitter 帖文中。

According to Google search data, the word Friendsgiving itself doesn't have significant mentions until 2013.

根據 Google 搜尋資料，Friendsgiving 一詞直到 2013 年才開始被大量提及。

This rise in popularity may be attributed to Twitter and other social media platforms progression between 2008 and the 2010s.

它走紅的原因，可能與 2008～2010 年代社群媒體的發展有關。

So it turns out Friendsgiving comes from the early era of hashtags, which is really funny.

所以 Friendsgiving 其實來自於 hashtag 剛興起的時代，這真的滿好笑的。

It goes to show, like, how much a snappy name for something can really contribute to its rise in the culture.

這也證明，一個聽起來順又抓耳的名稱，真的能讓一個概念在文化中迅速崛起。

Twitter launched their Trends feature in 2008 and popularized the use of hashtags between 2010-2014,

Twitter 在 2008 年推出 Trend 功能，並在 2010–2014 之間普及 hashtag，

which probably helped #Friendsgiving as a topic become more visible on social media.

這大概也讓 #Friendsgiving 成為更容易在社群上被看見的話題。

And then they said it on the Real Housewives of New Jersey and then, you know, a cultural phenomenon was born.

然後《紐澤西豪門嬌妻》節目也說了這個詞，文化現象就這樣誕生了。

From there, Friendsgiving has stuck around.

從那之後，Friendsgiving 就一直存在。

But it isn't all breaking wishbones and cranberry sauce.

但這可不全是折斷火雞叉骨和蔓越莓醬而已。

Why Friendsgiving emerged around 2007 could also be indicative of what was happening around that time.

Friendsgiving 在 2007 年左右出現，也可能反映當時的一些大環境因素。

Not to mention the holiday it's based on has much darker origins.

更不用說，它所基於的感恩節本身有著更黑暗的起源。

In elementary school, I learned Thanksgiving is when the Pilgrims first came to America and they didn't know anything about the land.

我在小學學到的版本是：清教徒剛抵達美洲，對土地一無所知，

Native Americans were kind people and lended the Pilgrims a helping hand in starting their new life here.

原住民很友善，伸出援手幫他們在這裡開始新生活。

They had a big feast with meat and maize to celebrate a successful harvest and a fruitful friendship.

他們一起舉辦了一場豐盛的宴會，以肉和玉米慶祝豐收與友誼。

The history of what happened between the Wampanoag people and English colonialists during that time is complex, it's bloody,

17 世紀萬帕諾亞族與英國殖民者之間的歷史複雜、血腥，

The Wampanoag have many ceremonies and festivals that predate President Lincoln proclaiming Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863.

萬帕諾亞族早在林肯總統於 1863 年宣布感恩節為國定假日之前，就有許多傳統慶典。

Outside of the misstated history of Thanksgiving, the word Friendsgiving appeared during a time of great economic upheaval around the world.

除了被誤述的感恩節歷史外，Friendsgiving 這個詞誕生於全球經濟劇烈動盪的時期。

Now it's official, we are in a recession.

現在官方宣布，我們進入衰退。

This recession, in some ways unprecedented.

這次經濟衰退在某些方面前所未見。

The World Bank is predicting a deeper global recession than before.

世界銀行預測全球衰退將更嚴重。

Things may get worse before they get better.

情況可能會在變好前先變得更糟。

The Great Recession in the US lasted from December 2007 through June 2009 and disrupted the lives of families across the country.

美國的大衰退自 2007 年 12 月持續到 2009 年 6 月，讓全國無數家庭受到衝擊。

maybe people couldn't travel home for the holidays,

maybe they were trying to do a more low key Thanksgiving.

也許他們想要一個更低調的感恩節。

So more of a potluck situation, which I think a Friendsgiving sort of implies.

所以就變成像百樂餐的形式，而 Friendsgiving 本來就有這樣的意味。

And may have helped turn a catchy hashtag into something more.

而這可能也讓一個吸睛的 hashtag 變成了一種文化現象。

And Friendsgiving is a reflection of the social and cultural waves millennials were creating in the 2010s.

而 Friendsgiving 也反映了 2010 年代千禧世代創造的社會與文化潮流。

I feel like Friendsgiving is the most millennial concept to ever exist.

我覺得 Friendsgiving 根本是最「千禧世代」的概念。

It's like, okay, during the recession, people getting married later or not getting married, your friends or your family well into your 30s.

像是在經濟衰退時期，人們更晚結婚，甚至不結婚，你的朋友成為你 30 多歲依然倚靠的家人。

Like, this is a very millennial and probably now Gen Z concept of just delaying these traditional markers of adulthood, which is, you know,

這非常像千禧世代、甚至現在 Z 世代的生活方式：延後那些傳統的成年象徵，

buying a house to then host Thanksgiving in for your nuclear and extended family, where it's like, no.

例如買房、然後在自己的房子裡款待親戚一家過感恩節，而現在是——不。

The millennial tradition is like staying in your rented apartment and hosting a potluck for your friends.

千禧世代的感恩節，反而是待在租屋處，邀請朋友帶菜來一起 potluck。

During that time, millennials were more racially and ethnically diverse than previous generations, more likely to be socially liberal,

那段時間，千禧世代比前幾代更具族群多元性、社會思想更自由，

and the first generation to fully embrace social media.

也是第一個全面擁抱社群媒體的世代。

With Millennials redefining culture and making new traditions,

當千禧世代重新定義文化並創造新的傳統時，

Friendsgiving grew into a celebration where you gathered with people outside your given family when you couldn't or didn't want to go home.

Friendsgiving 逐漸成為一種與非血親的人聚會的節日——當你不能或不想回家時。

Fiendsgiving is just such a great way to reinvent old traditions.

Friendsgiving 是一種重新打造舊傳統的絕佳方式。

Even if, you know, you don't have this beautiful colonial house that you think you're supposed to have when you're like a grown-up,

就算你沒有電影裡那種長得像殖民地風格的大房子，

when you're watching holiday movies or you're trying to recreate holidays that you had when you were a kid,

或你正試著重現自己小時候的節日氛圍，

it's this nice way to sort of do Thanksgiving and celebrating where you're at and with the people that you want to celebrate with.

Friendsgiving 讓你能在當下、和你真正想要一起慶祝的人，度過屬於自己的感恩節。