how do other countries celebrate the day of the dead? Not halloween, but November 2nd?
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mexico\nfamilies set up alters at home the include sugar skulls, food (the favorites of the diseased), photos, etc\nthen many families go to cementeries pray, eat, enjoy life, and honor those who passed away
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In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. The origin and history of Thanksgiving Day in Canada is different from the American Thanksgiving. Whereas the American tradition talks about remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The geographical location of Canada is further north as compared to the United States therefore the harvest season falls earlier in Canada. \nThere are three traditions behind Canadian Thanksgiving Day:\n\n1. The farmers in Europe held celebrations at the time of harvesting to give thanks for their good fortune of a bountiful harvest and abundance of food. The farmers would fill a goat's curved horn with fruits and grains. This curved horn was known as a cornucopia or the horn of plenty. It is believed that when the European farmers came to Canada they brought this tradition of Thanksgiving with them. \n\n2. The history of Thanksgiving in Canada is related to Martin Frobisher, who was an English navigator. He made a lot of efforts to find a northern passage to the Orient. Though he did not succeed in his efforts but he was able to establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now known as Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Martin Frobisher was later knighted and an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada was named as ' Frobisher Bay' after him. When other settlers arrived here they continued this ceremony of giving thanks. \n\n3. The third influence occurred in 1621 in what is now the United States. Here the pilgrims, who were the English colonists, celebrated their first harvest in the New World at Plymouth Massachusetts. By the 1750s this celebration of harvest was brought to Nova Scotia by American settlers from the south. \n\nIn the 1600s, another navigator Samuel de Champlain crossed the ocean and arrived to Canada. Other French Settlers also came with him and their group held huge feasts of thanks for the harvests. On this event they shared their food with the Native American neighbors and thus involved them in their celebrations. Then they formed ' The Order of Good Cheer' which marked the harvests and other events as well. \n\nAfter the Seven Year's War ended in 1763, the citizens of Halifax held a special day of Thanksgiving. \n\nDuring the American Revolution the Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada. They brought with themselves the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada. \n\nIn 1879, the Parliament declared 6th day of November as the day of Thanksgiving and also declared it a national holiday. Over the years different dates were used for celebrating the Thanksgiving Day in Canada but the most popular date was the 3rd Monday of October. \n\nAfter World War I, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving Day were celebrated on a common day that was Monday of the week in which fell the 11th day of November. Ten years later, in 1931, both Armistice Day and Thanksgiving Day became separate holidays and Armistice Day was renamed as the 'Remembrance Day'. \n\nFinally, on January 31st, 1957, the Parliament issued a proclamation to fix permanently the 2nd Monday in October as the Thanksgiving Day. The Proclamation goes as...
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What country? What state, if US. What kind of employer?\n\nI certainly don't think Yom Kippur is a legal holiday in China, or Easter in Israel, for example. I know we don't celebrate Boxing Day in the US, and I've never even heard of Remembrance Day.\n\nAt my company, the answer is none.
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I knew most of it, except for the part about Halloween being Satan's birthday, Halloween was created in Mexico but called "The day of the dead" a day made for everyone who had lost a family member that year, to bake them the foods that they had enjoyed the most, and to help guide them to heaven, because, before that day, they had all stayed there on earth waiting for this day to come, the celebration lasts for about a month, but latley been cut down to only a week. They make a kinda of cookie bread thing called "Spirit Cookies" and the families would go around getting them, but, if they were denied the cookies, they would play tricks on that family, Here, in America, we have just changed it up a little bit, now they give out candy, and people dress up like dead people, instead of baking goods for dead people, and now is not a time for remembrance, but a time for celebration. Halloween is not satan's birthday. Also Satan was not mentioned in the bible until just a few hundred years ago, after Halloween was created.
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Yes, every single country in the world has a 4th of July. The calendar is universal, so all countries have the same dates.
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Halloween\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nThis article is about the holiday. For other uses, see Halloween (disambiguation). \nHalloween \n \nA jack-o'-lantern \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nAlso called Hallowe'en, All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Eve, Samhain, Spooky Day, Snap-Apple Night \nObserved by Many Western nations, including the USA, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Canada, sometimes Australia and New Zealand \nType Pagan, Religious, Cultural (celebrated mostly irrespective of religion) \nSignificance There are many sources of the significance of Halloween \nDate October 31 \nCelebrations Trick-or-treating, Bobbing for apples, Costume parties, Carving jack-o'-lanterns \nHalloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets, fruit, and other treats. Apart from this trick-or-treating, there are many other traditional Halloween activities. Some of these include costume parties, watching horror films, going to "haunted" houses, and traditional autumn activities such as hayrides, some of these even "haunted". A more complete coverage of Hallowen customs can be found at Halloween traditions.\n\nHalloween originated as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with Irish, Scots, Welsh and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.\n\nHalloween is celebrated in most parts of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Philippines. In recent years, Halloween has also been celebrated in parts of Western Europe, such as Belgium, France and Spain.\n\nThe term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day"[1] (also known as "All Saints' Day"). The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day from May 13 to November 1. In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label. The festival is also known as Samhain or Oíche Shamhna to the Irish, Calan Gaeaf to the Welsh, Allantide to the Cornish and Hop-tu-Naa to the Manx. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.\n\nMany European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (e.g. Catalan mythology about witches, Irish tales of the Sídhe).
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Yes, I celebrate it. While it's not an officially recognized holiday in the US, it is celebrated by pagans here. We refer to it as Beltane more often than May Day.
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November 1 is All Saints Day or All Hallows Day, a religious holiday.  Halloween (Hallow's Eve) is technically just the night before.\n\nThe Halloween tradition comes from the Celts.  It was a holiday called Samhain, All Hallowtide, signaling the close of harvest and the initiation of the winter season.\n\nTrick or treat came from the idea of fairies, which the Celts believed were mischievous.   Many of the people would imitate the fairies and go from house to house begging for treats. Failure to supply the treats would usually result in practical jokes being visited on the owner of the house. Since the fairies were abroad on this night, an offering of food or milk was frequently left for them on the steps of the house, so the homeowner could gain the blessings of the "good folk" for the coming year.
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It is not only in the UK this way. In Poland you have mother's day on 26th of May.
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G'day Silver and Gold,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nNo. The only place outside the US which celebrates Thanksgiving is Canada which celebrates it on the second monday in November. In the UK, the name Thanksgiving is another name for the Harvest Festival celebrated in churches at the end of the local harvest but it is not nearly as important as the US. However, it may have been part of the origins of Thanksgiving.\n\nThe only place in Germany where Thanksgiving will be celebrated will be US armed services bases.\n\nI have attached sources for your reference including German holidays.\n\nRegards
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Are you saying that a celebration of death is wrong. Whats wrong with you. When my cat died we had a block party. People are just awesome like that. Ha... sorry about the death of Zarqawi really didnt do much for me either way. Yeah I am glad that one less butt pirate is running around but that just pissed his little group off more and there are 1,000's just like him. Eh whatever but yeah... celebrating death is kinda..... morbid
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Holidays of communist’s socialists and invaders of America,\nCannot celebrate now, waiting to dance upon their graves!
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Here are some sites that can help you:\n\nhttp://www.dayofthedead.com/\nhttp://www.nacnet.org/assunta/dead.htm\nhttp://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Mexico/Society_and_Culture/Holidays_and_Observances/Day_of_the_Dead__Dia_de_los_Muertos_/
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Actually, I have found that it is not.  I moved here from Ohio, and the friends that I have made, party for all holidays.  When I mentioned St. Patrick's day they were like "Why?"  lol they even joked they needed no reason to drink!!! cause they do that all the time.  There were hardly any decorations up ANYWHERE --
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Contrary to popular belief, it is not the Mexican Independence holiday(that is in September).  It is celebrated because that day marked the defeat of French forces against the Mexican Army.
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Yes, yes I do know that, that is why I do not celebrate it.  It has an atrociously dark and fiendish history, and ought to be abolished.  Down with Halloween!
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Cinco de Mayo in the States!  In Hong Kong, it was a Bank holiday and I got the link for you!  Well, I guess that you already knew by now!