For college students, like myself, Thanksgiving break can be the first time you reconnect with your friends from your hometown since being at school. The reunion of these friendships reflects kinship in American culture, because I consider my friends as my second “family, this goes to show the vast popularity and variety of chosen families in American culture.

Kenneth J. Guest, Essentials of Cultural Anthropology (New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 2016), Page 256