World Wide Holidays...?

honoraryjapanesegirl · (#1 (**permalink**))

In America, tomorrow we will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day, which has no more respect, due the people's focus on Black Friday. (The time when shops are getting rid of their old stuff and bringing in the new, which is cause for major sales...)

A few years ago, the American government decided to move Thanksgiving Day up one week from the last Thursday of November to the second to the last week of the November.

The reason?

To give shoppers more time to buy Christmas gifts and such...That was taken with much hostility, and it's now back to the last Thursday of November.

Do any other countries have this same little respect for their holidays? I mean, I know America's bad, but are there any other stories like this one?

~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~

Undertherose25 · (#2 (**permalink**))

Who cares?

Jesus wasn't born in December he was born in spring. Everyone seems content to celebrate Christmas in December.

honoraryjapanesegirl · (#3 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Undertherose25

Who cares?

Jesus wasn't born in December he was born in spring. Everyone seems content to celebrate Christmas in December.

No, Jesus wasn't born in December, but what my point is, they moved the holiday for selfish reasons. To enlongate the shopping period. They broke tradition. I know other countries are very stern about keeping tradition, so I wanna see if there's anything smiliar...

MilKyXxdreamXx · (#4 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by honoraryjapanesegirl

In America, tomorrow we will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day, which has no more respect, due the people's focus on Black Friday. (The time when shops are getting rid of their old stuff and bringing in the new, which is cause for major sales...)

A few years ago, the American government decided to move Thanksgiving Day up one week from the last Thursday of November to the second to the last week of the November.

The reason?

To give shoppers more time to buy Christmas gifts and such...That was taken with much hostility, and it's now back to the last Thursday of November.

i don't think it's a non-respect type of way just because of Black Friday.
yes, most of americans keep in mind about black friday and go out and buy things (sometimes wildly), but it's just the same as christmas.
i don't see how there is no respect towards that. since even though it's black friday, ppl will just spend time with their families (also) while going out and buy things.

also, the reason the gov move back to last thursday of the month was prob because they want ppl to spend time with their families shopping for Black Friday.

honoraryjapanesegirl · (#5 (**permalink**))

lol...I dunno, it was a big deal for my family. I take it like a slap in the face to the fact that we're celebrating our country being founded. But, I guess everyone has their own opinion.

I was just curious to see if anything similar has happened around thw world...

~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~

clintjm · (#6 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by honoraryjapanesegirl

In America, tomorrow we will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day, which has no more respect, due the people's focus on Black Friday. (The time when shops are getting rid of their old stuff and bringing in the new, which is cause for major sales...)

A few years ago, the American government decided to move Thanksgiving Day up one week from the last Thursday of November to the second to the last week of the November.

The reason?

To give shoppers more time to buy Christmas gifts and such...That was taken with much hostility, and it's now back to the last Thursday of November.

Do any other countries have this same little respect for their holidays? I mean, I know America's bad, but are there any other stories like this one?

~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~

Indeed.
Thanksgiving Reflections:

Thanksgiving Reflections <click here>

But also think of all the other holidays that just aren't recognized really anymore.

I'm amazed at the amount of stores and businesses open on Thanksgiving and even Christmas now and just close early. It sickens me a bit the more and more we lose ourselves.

Most companies (like mine) today only recognize 5 US national holidays. When I look at the international branches, those countries recognize an astounding amount more, even our branches in Japan. but I'm a bit off topic now...

I actually throw up a little in my mouth every time I hear "memorial day sale" or "Veterans day sale" or whatever <insert> sale.

I don't know about the whole nation but since when did Halloween becoming like a month and a half event. I mean the Halloween stores and decore shows up in mid September.

Don't let Black Friday get you down.. its just another stupid artificial holiday to sell you stuff that will be on sale at a later date or somewhere else anyway. For some its a "sport"

I wonder how many casualties there will be this year.

trunker · (#7 (**permalink**))

this one year i was in kuwat, in the middle east, and the new years fell on something like a tuesday or wednesday,....

well the government decided that new years day should be moved closer to the weekend so people could have a nice long weekend, so the holidays that year were actually on the 3rd or something like that.

we all still got smashed on the 31st anyway

Columbine · (#8 (**permalink**))

Since I was a kid there's been this weird kind of push to make Halloween the same kind of mega commercial event in the UK as it is in the USA. Although, where I live everyone has looked at all the hype in the shops and gone 'bugger that!' and gone out Halloween night to avoid the trick or treaters.

So I suppose the restaurants benefit, but Urgh. Halloween is for little kiddies and student house parties; I wish they'd stop encouraging drunk vindictive teens to go about harassing people on their own doorsteps.

RobinMask · (#9 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by honoraryjapanesegirl

In America, tomorrow we will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day, which has no more respect, due the people's focus on Black Friday. (The time when shops are getting rid of their old stuff and bringing in the new, which is cause for major sales...)

A few years ago, the American government decided to move Thanksgiving Day up one week from the last Thursday of November to the second to the last week of the November.

The reason?

To give shoppers more time to buy Christmas gifts and such...That was taken with much hostility, and it's now back to the last Thursday of November.

Do any other countries have this same little respect for their holidays? I mean, I know America's bad, but are there any other stories like this one?

~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~

In the UK the only holidays we have unique to us are Guy Fawkes Day and Remeberance Day (although I think some other countries in the commonwealth celebrate that). I think people have a healthy respect for the latter, and still tend to enjoy the former. Other holidays like Christmas, Easter etc. tend to be more about commercialism than religion, and Halloween - like another poster said - had little respect at all. I think most people consider holidays a time to just have fun, so there's little respect to be had

Ito · (#10 (**permalink**))

problem in sweden is that we trying to take some american traditions. dont see the point in it. why have halloween and all saints night on same dayes?. all saints night is for honouring the died.

dont see the point of having halloween in sweden to. o.O