After a satisfying Thanksgiving meal, my older brother Jacob fell asleep on the couch. The kinship that I share with him is particularly important to me in the fact that as we’ve both grown up, it has allowed us to see past our differences and get along without arguing. Thanksgiving is a time in our culture where we spend time with family and express our gratitude for what we have in this life. Despite our anger for each other at times, at the end of the day I can’t help but be grateful for the relationships I share with my siblings.

Kenneth J. Guest, Essentials of Cultural Anthropology (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016), Page 237.