If There’s One Festival You Could Get Rid Of, What Would It Be?

Bobbisox1 | 11:19 Fri 22nd Jul 2022 | ChatterBank

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Easter ?
Christmas?
Halloween?
Birthday?

For me it would be Halloween, never liked it !

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Gromit

India is a predominantly Hindu country, but it does have 172million muslims too. 20% are not Hindu, there are Christians and Sikhs as well.

pimplyteen

I wouldn't want to get rid of any, why? taking into consideration other peoples likes and dislikes.

andy-hughes

I try not to be a killjoy, and accept that all the festivals, religious and cultural, give pleasure to a lot of people.

But since I am asked, I'd ditch Halloween, the Americanisation of it is horrible, with 'Trick Or Treat' being the nonsense that it is.

But it's a big deal on our estate - if you want to take part, you leave your outside light, or hall light on, and kids knock, and you dole out from a massive bucket of sweets, and they are appreciative, so I can't really be too humbug.

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Andy gone are the days of a scooped out turnip with a candle and string :0)))

Old_Geezer

Halloween took off here when a generation arrived that wanted to sling UK culture and adopt US culture wholesale.

Maydup

no hesitation - ditch Christmas.

jno

surely people are awaare now that Halloween originated in Europe?

///In Scotland and other parts of Britain and Ireland, the tradition of guising, going house to house at Halloween and putting on a small performance to be rewarded with food or treats, goes back at least as far as the 16th century, as does the tradition of people wearing costumes at Halloween. ///

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating

The idea of blaming something you don't like on Americans is a bit daft.

Old_Geezer

No one doubts Halloween was known in Europe but it would be a bit daft to make out it wasn't the US that took it to heart with their trick or treat extortion lessons and put it out via their TV, films, etc.. Or that a gullible portion of the UK population didn't adopt it along with many other US behaviours in their rush to be the same.