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

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well base and superstructure the way the holiday is presented and the way it is celebrated influence each other

but I take it as a cultural understanding because it’s the only way I’ve ever known it. When I was a kid that was the way every family I went to school with celebrated it and now I’m an adult everyone I know does it that way round, also that is the way media, news etc cover it. So all my experiences of living in my culture tell me this is the normal expected way of doing it

it’s fine to not do it that way around of course but it’s outside of the social norms

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I dunno, thats also what op says is their norm, except for all the people from all around europe saying that op is probably just projecting their parents opinion.

Social norms arent really often as norm as you think

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no people are saying OP is wrong and that halloween is a holiday not that is a bigger deal culturally than Christmas

people in europe only really started celebrating halloween in living memory it is simply not a major holiday here. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a holiday though

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Halloween was born in europe… One generation falling out of the celebration doesnt erase it from the culture.

And no one said it was bigger than christmas?

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