Appropriation? Hell, yes! A turkey-centric, cranberry-laden meal can happily morph into a tandoori chicken served with tangy tamarind chutni as easily as a West Asian radical prophet named Yeshwa became a blond hippie-like Jesus. While White people, including Brown ones, see Thanksgiving only via motifs like Norman Rockwell's famous 1943 painting, 'Freedom From Want'-depicting a White, American middle-class family seated around a crisply adorned dinner table with the matriarch serving turkey-the family gathering at the meal table is far too an Indian scenario (think any Karan Johar family sit-down scene) to not be coopted.

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