Tired of all this pumpkin and plastic skeleton crap everywhere. Thanks, marketing ghouls 
What, are we going to start celebrating the 4th of July next? Might as well with the NATO membership I guess
I’m not sure how to break this to you, but Halloween is European. Halloween was invented in Ireland, from the pagan celebration of Samhain. Even the practice of dressing up in costume and going from door to door asking for food is recorded as of the 16th century at the latest. Pranks, as well as “Mischief Night,” also dates from the 18th century at the latest. This is all pre-Americanisation. It’s not a continental European tradition but it’s certainly European, not American.
Sure, but this shit started not really being a thing in non-anglo European countries sometime in the 90s
And now its back, like many religious and non religious celebratory traditions before it.
I file Halloween with Valentine’s Day under “Fake American holidays imported to sell tacky plastic crap”
That’s ok, you still celebrate the biggest, fakest and most tacky plastic holiday of them all; Christmas.
nah christmas rocks I get to see all my family and just enjoy the vibes and goodwill to all men
plus past a certain age christmas presents become books and socks (this is one of the main reasons to keep reading as an adult)
How is that any different from halloween? Just that your personal family dont bother to get together for it?
because halloween isn’t a holiday anyone celebrates with family gatherings, and the themes of goodwill to all men is a very explicit cultural aspect of christmas when it isn’t for halloween.
You don’t even get a day off for halloween because it was never a big deal culturally
Halloween is one of the few things America appropriated and made cooler. No disrespect to the Irish OG’s that made it, mind you.
Nah legit the one part of anglo/American culture I will defend with my whole chest this shit is dope and the more of it that exists the better
Of all things you could complain about with Americanization, you complain about Halloween? The best holiday ever conceived by any culture ever?
Decorating a supermarket with gaudy plastic skulls does not a holiday make
Would you prefer the Christmas decorations already be there instead?
It doesn’t, but it’s also the only truly communal American holiday. Christmas creates a lot of good will amongst people, I know my union my Grandma represented adopted HUNDREDS of families for adopt-a-christmas every year. However Christmas is still about. But modern Christmas is still based in celebrating your family, not people as a whole. Adopting other families isn’t essential for a Christmas celebration. Halloween is a day for children to walk around feeling cool in their costumes, get candy, and just have a good day. It’s the one day of year Americans can actually knock on their neighbors door without it being weird. Even St. Patrick’s day, the second most communal holiday in America, is entirely based around parades and not homes.
On one hand, I don’t think Halloween would mean much to nations with closer communal ties. I get why other nations don’t understand why America loves Halloween so much. On the other hand, Halloween’s cultural significance of being the only inherently community building holiday in America makes it a more worthy holiday than many others. With how alienated people are becoming from each other, I think Halloween is a more important holiday in America than ever.
We’re going to make all of you celebrate 4th of July and Thanksgiving. UK gets Canadian Thanksgiving, EU gets American
Only if Americans start celebrating Midsummer and Walpurgis/May Day
amerika does ‘celebrate’ may day except it’s been called ‘labor day’ and is in september
and they changed actual may day to “loyalty day” lol
Cuck Day
