Halloween

halloween has cool as fuck aesthetics but our climate doesn't allow us to have it exactly the same; for example classic halloween vibe is amber and yellow leaves here it's not that common

Colloquially its known as Cinco de Drinko

What colors do you use for Halloween?

>How do you feel about your country celebrating an American holiday?
Isnt It irish ir some shit?, Anyway its all good fun dont know why some people get touchy about it, we have día de muertos aswell (wich Is also quite plastic if you think about It) and its not going to dissapear anytine soon

I don't personally know anyone that celebrates it. The closest thing to a foreign holiday being celebrated here is St Patrick's and even then it's just an excuse for bars to offer discounts and dumb normies who have no idea what it's about to go out and drink.

We don't celebrate it. Probably some gated community out there that looks like an american suburb does, but that's it.

Originated in the British Isles but trick or treating is an American thing, along with pumpkins (they're from america)

Depends on the region, but the cultural influence can be quite big.
I don't give a shit. Like the Mexican said, it's cool and a good excuse to have fun, watch crappy horror movies, drink and give candy to children.

pretty much the same: yellow, orange, purple and black. Thing is that we use orange and yellow flowers since we don't have the autumn leaves

It was but nowadays its basically an American version.

We altered it a lot. So what you know as Halloween would not be the Irish version.

Flowers instead of leaves?

Thats so interesting!

Pics?

I think its also a remix with the día de muertos main flower (cempssuchil) wich Is also orange, ive seem house decorated both with Halloween shit like pumpinks and bat but also adding a catrina and sugar skulls

I'm probably thinking on how we celebrate Day of the Dead as our equivalent to Halloween by the way it's kind of the same vibe but more tropicalized

Seems to me like the day of the dead is a lot more 'happy'. Halloween was always a frightening thing here, not anything to do with your ancestors or whatever, its all about witches and spooky ghosts and stuff

Yeah that's what I envy from Halloween. All those moody pictures with people wearing masks in forests and stuff likethat are priceless

If only the Euros were as sensible as Mexicans...

Mexibro's are truly based.

Continental euros are sometimes very worried about their culture being 'replaced' because their cultural output is really diminished nowadays. Taking part in a new holiday is threatening to them because they aren't following their own traditions as much any more

Yes, having my mum telling me scary stories about ghosts and stuff in the dead of night gave me some really strong memories. I'm sure I'll tell my kids them some day to scare them in turn, it is a fun tradition. Your day of the dead is really cool in its own way though, we have nothing like that at all

That doesnt make sense when they are importing millions of Africans. It seems like they already dont care about their culture, why draw the line here on something so trivial?

In general those dates are considered days where magic can become real it's amazing if different cultures can make their own versions

Halloween and Día de muertos are escentially the same, a syncretism between the Christian hollidays and local already existing traditions

Culture has nothing to do with race, I'm culturally closer to a Jamaican than a Pole. The affect of immigration pales in comparison to an entire generation watching American media 90% of the time

where?
in Bogota and Medellin people just find halloween as an excuse to dress slutty and party

>it's amazing if different cultures can make their own versions

Its really not see they share origins

Yes I definitely agree, very cool how the church has tried to absorb pagan traditions in both cases, but the non-christian weirdness has endured in both cases. Mad to think that this time of year has had these spooky associations for thousands of years

Young people see it as an excuse to get drunk here too. It would be absolutely retarded if kids went around asking for candy while dressed in costumes, though. We have an actual holiday for that

>culture isnt dependent on race

It shouldnt be. But thats not reality in most cases. Dont be ignorant.

You and a black guy could have the same culture but your experiences would still be different. Thus leading to differences.

Yes definitely, double interesting that they're at around the same time too I think. Must just be something about the looming of winter that makes people think about death

I think It has to do with autum, days getting shorter, nature dying out, shit mkes for spookyness

From which part of the UK are you from? Does your town celebrate Halloween or something around those dates?

This is the american outlook but its different in different countries. For example a huge part of what French people see as their identity is their language, which is why they've got involved in loads of stupid wars over the years to defend pockets of French speaking Africans. They don't view a black African moving to France as cultural destruction because they speak French and know French history, but kids saying loads of English loanwords is more insidious to them

I think is a bigger thing in northern states, in the company where I work we have a custome contest.

Bogota. There's a lot of halloween parties everywhere, schools often do something special during that date, malls put up decorations and in working-class neighborhoods the streets always get full of children asking for candy in stores.

>Yes definitely, double interesting that they're at around the same time too I think
Well in our case thats by design not coincidence, día de muertos was made to be celebrsted along the catholic all hollows eve, some natives rites for the death happened at different times of the year