Topic: What are the most recognised celebrations in your country? (Read 145 times)

To say the concluding aspect on this, we cannot deny that Christmas celebration is widely celebrated everywhere regardless of the countries or people and it's the most recognized celebration everyone is likely to be involved because it's been marked towards the end of the year in December and followed by the new year celebration with just a week intervals, this Yuletide season is very common and many people get aware.

The above thread is actually not  a topic to be over emphasized because  celebrations differs among countries,i will state out a few amongst so many which in one way or the other I will refer to as a global recognized holiday celebration in most part of the world today .

Namely ,
- Christmas season celebration .
It is considered a worldwide celebration bcs almost  70 -80% of the world today are partakers of the celebration .
- The Eid holiday which is also common among nations, mostly the Islamic nations
- The arm force remembrance day which is being celebrated here in my country which I believe most countries do celebrate as well.
-  Last but not the least ,is the Independence Day which most countries of the third world wouldn't forget to celebrate.

I won't mention anything new - Christmas, New Year, Easter, 1st of May, Mother's day, Father's day, Independence day (in our country we have two different dates, one on 16th February and another on 11th March), Coronation day.
From most countries we have one difference - All Saint's day on 1th of November. On this day we visit cemetery and remember our family members, relatives and friends who passed away.
I would say that Christmas, New Year and Easter is most important days in my country.

Seems that some things in Finland is close to my country. We also have holiday on 1st May, but I wouldn't say that people celebrate it much, they more spend like usual weekend.
And Midsummet is quite big thing in Lithuania too. Here it's called Joninės or John's Day in English and celebrations here is very similar.

From what i've heard, Easter is quite big in Russia. I supposed it's pretty big in religious communities in Finland too, but not that big of a deal. Christmas however must be the biggest, and it's celebrated by non-religious as well. We used to have a law keeping all shops closed in Christmas day, but these days they are allowed to be open, most of them are not though.

Right after that is New Years day, which OP didn't even mention, in here it's celebrated by everyone.

Then there are Vappu (may day), which is traditionally celebrating worker's rights with parades and university students. Eve of may day involves heavy drinking and partying, next day marches and picnics.

Independence Day, for general public is celebrated quite quietly. In their own homes, there are some ceremonies obviously and change to feel all patriotic But mostly everyone has their own traditions for that. Like watching the movie "unknown soldier" from tv and independence day reception by president of Finland. Speeches and such.

And my personal favourite is Juhannus. Most people are staying awake whole night as sun doesn't set and people are dancing, burning bonfires, drinking and swimming, usually in their own cabins and bathing in their own saunas. Cities are quite empty and silent in Juhannus.

All of these are celebrated in our country, whether you're a Christian or a Muslim, the government had made laws about these holidays but some of them are not recognized as holidays but we do still celebrate them. And since our country has a lot of islands, each province also has their own native festivals that's being celebrated although I don't travel a lot as it's time consuming so that means that there's more to celebrate in my country per island or province that I go.

I don’t have anything exciting to add but when I read this Christmas immediately jumped into my mind when I thought about the most popular holiday in America. Thinking about it, that’s interesting because it’s a religious holiday and a great deal of the country doesn’t even celebrate it. I guess that can be said for any holiday though. As far as American holidays go, I’d say the Fourth of July.

The highest type of power now is political power and not cultural or social power. When the legislature makes a law for a state it becomes binding to everyone including the highest traditional rulers. Currently, political leaders have the power to dethrone traditional rulers. I read of a powerful traditional ruler in the ancient city of Kano Nigeria that was deposed and sent into exile by the state governor. Tradition was powerful before colonialism but it became powerless during and after the colonial era. When a law is enacted any culture or tradition that contradicts such law is null and void.
I will propose a bill to abolish forced burial celebrations on the people due to traditional practices. The bill will give every citizen the right and freedom to bury the dead based on their budget. The community won't force people to adopt a particular burial style or budget because of customs and traditions. Any customs that bring suffering and pain to the people deserve to be amended or abolished.

Funerals are expensive to organise in some regions true. A friend was recently soliciting for contributions so his late father could be buried according to their culture. The quota he was given to contribute is the equivalent of $2000 which he does not have as he just finished contributing as well for the burial of his father-in-law. Such a big burden to carry for someone who has died.

In some other cultures, after the burial, members of the community gather and contribute money, clothing materials or cows/goats to the family, so they can recover somethings from the many expenses, that is good too.

Your office may not be strong enough to change age long cultures and traditions.

The question is subjective because every country have different celebrations. Like in my country there is no thanksgiving day and Halloween. But I know when I was growing up we only knew celebrations like Christmas and Eid holidays and the were very popular. Children's day was for children and they go to the stadium to do match-pass with the governor of the state in attendance. Currently There have been so much emphasis in so many celebrations. Now birthdays seems to be a must. People now see birthdays as an important occasion that they even borrow money just to celebrate it. It is now compulsory for some people to celebrate birthdays every year. But I have observed of the recent increase of the popularity of Valentines day in my country. It has become so important that religious organization have to organize religious events to celebrate the lovely day.

For me, I don't have much interest in celebration of events. Sometimes I forget my birthdays and it will be people that will remind me. If you don't wish some people happy birthday they will become angry and I am not comfortable with such behavior. As a Christian I don't believe that Jesus was born in 25th December, so I don't recognize Christmas. Everyday is Christmas for me so I behave like Christ everyday. Valentines day has no meaning to me because I show love everyday. The most enjoying part of these celebration is just the public holidays.  


I see burial celebrations as waste of resources. In my culture even the poor will be forced to organize big burial celebration. Sometime it was poverty, and hunger that killed the dead, yet the bereaved will have to feed the community because of culture and tradition. Some people will have to sell properties, take loans and credits because they want to celebrate burials. But I think that the only thing you owe the dead is to dig the ground and put him inside, other expenses doesn't concern the dead. It is not wrong for the rich to organize burials the way they want as much as they can afford it. But don't force the poor to organize elaborate burials, allow them to bury the dead based on their own budget. If I become the governor of my state, I would ban any tradition that impose burial arrangement on families.     

There are many forms and means through which you find the people in a celebration mode and most of these are base under the category of culture and traditions that guides the people and then the religious believes, here are the common ones i see being celebrated from my country with the few list in summary below.

* Christmas
* Sallah
* Weddings
* Birthdays
* Father's day
* Mother's day
* Traditional Festivals
* Anniversaries celebrations
* Award winning ceremonies
* Parties
* Burial ceremonies

To me, I still can remember Christmas days and the 1st day of the year,  and since I don't work for the government,  I don't observe public holidays and so at that I may skip a lot of celebrations and days in my country,  I don't visit social media often and so I can say I haven't noticed quite a lot of celebrations so,  I am in the moon and the star is my galaxy all the is celebration days be it, 
Fathers days.
Christmas
New Year
Or democracy days.

Yesterday I was told by my daughter that it was fathers day,  and so we celebrated!

I live now in a country where they celebrate not only their national holidays but they do so for all the religions,summer day,children's day,Valentine day,Black Friday,Cyber Monday (which are American holidays by the way) and they do not care as long as they get a day off from these "holidays" which most of them are imported here but don't you just love the fact that as long as they get some benefit,i.e work day off they embrace whatever celebration they can.

They also do not make distinctions as which "holiday" is celebrated more as for them they are all the same,they bring the benefit of days off and the more the merrier.

I am a Christian and you, we do celebrate the greatest of all celebrations that you didn't put in your list which is Easter day. This is the day that is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ,because assuming Jesus Christ didn't resurrect from the dead,there will be no Christmas celebration.

The resurrection of Jesus brought and strengthen our faith in God and also brought the name Christian i.e Christ like. Down here in my country we also have festival days. Boxing day is also another day to celebrate, when gifts are put in boxes and given to people.

It was father's day yesterday and in my country it was recognised as many people sent their father's good wishes on that day. In some places it was celebrated more, less in some other places and not celebrated at all in some places all because of the level of importance that they have place on the celebration. Different celebrations have different importance and the importance can be determined by the persons location.
For example, a Christmas holiday will be celebrated more in a Christian country as Eid would in an Islamic country.

Arrange these celebrations in order of how celebrated and recognised they are in your country.
Christmas day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Eid holidays, Valentine's Day, Halloween, children's day, Thanksgiving, Independence dayetc

What I have listed cannot be all the celebrations, you can add a celebration that you know which is not part of what I have listed.