Halloween and the Day of the dead!!

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Fuchigole said:

curl-6 said:

I live in Australia; when I was a kid in the 90s almost nobody here used to celebrate Halloween, but it has steadily grown in popularity since then.

I've often heard the "it's an American thing" criticism from folks in my parents generation, and I don't usually celebrate it myself, but I've been to a few Halloween parties in my time and they've been good fun.

If I were ever to have kids, I'd happily let them participate in the celebrations of other nations if they were welcome to do so, so long as it wasn't something that's extreme by my own standards, like anything promoting violence or supremacy.

Do you have a special way to honor your dead in Australia?

Not specifically; some families ritually visit the graves of their loved ones on their birthday or the anniversary of their passing. We have Remembrance Day on the 11th of November to commemorate those who died in war. 

Last edited by curl-6 - on 27 October 2020