I worked at a movie theater during my high school days. Thanksgiving and Christmas were usually our busiest of the year.
Never could understand, since I’d have preferred to be elsewhere visiting relatives I rarely got to see.
If you're Jewish the traditional way to celebrate Christmas is by going to see a movie and then going out to a Chinese restaurant.
Everybody’s got different ways of going through the world, and different parts of the world to go through. Not being particularly fond of either of our families the wife and I for a few years went to see the least family friendly movie available on Christmas (saw Jackie Brown and the Beavis and Butthead movie that way). Thanksgiving for me is really all about the beer and the football, though these days we do tend to hit a restaurant too.