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| Author: | bunniefuu [ 11/05/02 15:23 ] |
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Seeing as we have members from all around the world here, and are probably tired of seeing just "American" Holidays decorating the site- just wondering what you celebrate so we can celebrate with you!  So what are the big Holidays where you live, why do you celebrate them and which ones are your favorites? 
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| Author: | Alien Stalker [ 11/06/02 04:17 ] |
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Easter's my all time fave! We hide those little choclate eggs all over the place and go search...love it!  Other than that, we celebrate Christmas, but that's basically all. In my family, that is, although I don't think ther's much more celebrating in Germany. Halloween is catching up, but it's coming over from the States. A few years ago there was no Halloween at all over here. Of course there are more holidays, but they are not really celebrated.It's like, to the U.S., Thanksgiving is this really huge thing, in Germany, no one cares.  But i think it's cool that you guys celebrate so much, although it's probably a lot of stress sometimes.
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| Author: | The Zookeepers Apprentice [ 11/06/02 05:49 ] |
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Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, at least the one celebrated at the end of November. One of my professors is from Canada, and over what we call the Columbus Day weekend, he was talking about going home for Thanksgiving. Very strange that way. But when it comes to Halloween...yeah, America has invaded north of the border real well. |
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| Author: | JonnyWasGirl [ 11/06/02 13:27 ] |
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the holidays i love are thanksgiving, christmas and holloween... |
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| Author: | destinyros2005 [ 11/06/02 14:10 ] |
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Welcome to the board, JonnyWasGirl! 
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| Author: | AbsoluteAngel58 [ 11/11/02 15:49 ] |
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Today's technically a holiday isn't it? Veteran's Day. Thank god for the Veteran's! Cuz of 'em I don't have school. But i guess that's just an American HOliday huh? |
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| Author: | The Zookeepers Apprentice [ 11/11/02 15:53 ] |
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In Canada, it's Remembrance Day. Vet's Day, different name. My zoo prof has been wearing a poppy for the past week in honor of it. |
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| Author: | destinyros2005 [ 11/11/02 16:51 ] |
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Yes, today is Veteran's Day. |
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| Author: | Alien Stalker [ 11/12/02 02:04 ] |
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Quote: Quote: But i guess that's just an American HOliday huh? Yeah, I'd defintely say so. We don't have it.
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| Author: | destinyros2005 [ 11/12/02 15:08 ] |
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Well, I knew America had it, and Canada has Remembance Day, but no one else has anything like it? I think England does, don't they? |
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| Author: | AbsoluteAngel58 [ 11/12/02 15:59 ] |
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Doesn't some country have Boxing Day or something around December? Yeah, I forgot what country, but I remember some kid in my old school talking about Boxing Day or something... it has nothing to do with the sport boxing though, that's realy all I know f it
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| Author: | The Zookeepers Apprentice [ 11/12/02 16:32 ] |
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It's on Dec 26th in Britan and Canada, and that's all I know. |
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| Author: | AbsoluteAngel58 [ 11/13/02 14:39 ] |
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I gotta remember that. So anybody celebrate that? |
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| Author: | destinyros2005 [ 11/13/02 17:26 ] |
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Ok...here's a description of Boxing Day from www.snopes.com/holidays/c...boxing.htm Cause I've heard of it, but had no idea what it was. Claim: The name of Boxing Day comes from the need to rid the house of empty boxes the day after Christmas. Status: False. Origins: Few Americans have any inkling that there even is such a thing as Boxing Day, let alone what the reason might be for a holiday so named. However, before one concludes we're about to rag on Americentric attitudes towards other cultures, we should quickly point out that even though Boxing Day is celebrated in Australia, Britain, New Zealand, and Canada, not all that many in those countries have much of a notion as to why they get the 26 of December off. Boxing Day might well be a statutory holiday in some of those lands, but it's not a well understood one. Despite the lively images suggested by the name, it has nothing to do with pugilistic expositions between tanked-up family members who have dearly been looking forward to taking a round out of each other for the past year. Likewise, it does not gain its name from the overpowering need to rid the house of an excess of wrappings and mountains of now useless cardboard boxes the day after St. Nick arrived to turn a perfectly charming and orderly home into a maelstrom of discarded tissue paper. The name also has nothing to do with returning unwanted gifts to the stores they came from, hence its common association with hauling about boxes on the day after Christmas. The holiday's roots can be traced to Britain, where Boxing Day is also known as St. Stephen's Day. Reduced to the simplest essence, its origins are found in a long-ago practice of giving cash or durable goods to those of the lower classes. Gifts among equals were exchanged on or before Christmas Day, but beneficences to those less fortunate were bestowed the day after. And that's about as much as anyone can definitively say about its origin because once you step beyond that point, it's straight into the quagmire of debated claims and dueling folklorists. Which, by the way, is what we're about to muddy our boots with. Although there is general agreement that the holiday is of British origin and it has to do with giving presents to the less fortunate, there is still dispute as to how the name came about or precisely what unequal relationship is being recognized. At various times, the following "origins" have been loudly asserted as the correct one: Centuries ago, ordinary members of the merchant class gave boxes of food and fruit to tradespeople and servants the day after Christmas in an ancient form of Yuletide tip. These gifts were an expression of gratitude to those who worked for them, in much the same way that one now tips the paperboy an extra $20 at Christmastime or slips the building's superintendent a bottle of fine whisky. Those long-ago gifts were done up in boxes, hence the day coming to be known as "Boxing Day." Christmas celebrations in the old days entailed bringing everyone together from all over a large estate, thus creating one of the rare instances when everyone could be found in one place at one time. This gathering of his extended family, so to speak, presented the lord of the manor with a ready-made opportunity to easily hand out that year's stipend of necessities. Thus, the day after Christmas, after all the partying was over and it was almost time to go back to far-flung homesteads, serfs were presented with their annual allotment of practical goods. Who got what was determined by the status of the worker and his relative family size, with spun cloth, leather goods, durable food supplies, tools, and whatnot being handed out. Under this explanation, there was nothing voluntary about this transaction; the lord of the manor was obligated to supply these goods. The items were chucked into boxes, one box for each family, to make carrying away the results of this annual restocking easier; thus, the day came to be known as "Boxing Day." Many years ago, on the day after Christmas, servants in Britain carried boxes to their masters when they arrived for the day's work. It was a tradition that on this day all employers would put coins in the boxes, as a special end-of-the-year gift. In a closely-related version of this explanation, apprentices and servants would on that day get to smash open small earthenware boxes left for them by their masters. These boxes would house small sums of money specifically left for them. This dual-versioned theory melds the two previous ones together into a new form; namely, the employer who was obligated to hand out something on Boxing Day, but this time to recipients who were not working the land for him and thus were not dependent on him for all they wore and ate. The "box" thus becomes something beyond ordinary compensation (in a way goods to landed serfs was not), yet it's also not a gift in that there's nothing voluntary about it. Under this theory, the boxes are an early form of Christmas bonus, something employees see as their entitlement. Boxes in churches for seasonal donations to the needy were opened on Christmas Day, and the contents distributed by the clergy the following day. The contents of this alms box originated with the ordinary folks in the parish who were thus under no direct obligation to provide anything at all and were certainly not tied to the recipients by a employer/employee relationship. In this case, the "box" in "Boxing Day" comes from that one gigantic lockbox the donations were left in. Whichever theory one chooses to back, the one thread common to all is the theme of one-way provision to those not inhabiting the same social level. As mentioned previously, equals exchanged gifts on Christmas Day or before, but lessers (be they tradespeople, employees, servants, serfs, or the generic "poor") received their "boxes" on the day after. It is to be noted that the social superiors did not receive anything back from those they played Lord Bountiful to: a gift in return would have been seen as a presumptuous act of laying claim to equality, the very thing Boxing Day was an entrenched bastion against. Boxing Day was, after all, about preserving class lines. Barbara "lines of the times" Mikkelson Sightings: Good King Wenceslas' gifts of bread, wine, and firewood were made to a poor man whom he observed struggling through the snow "on the Feast of Stephen." |
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| Author: | AbsoluteAngel58 [ 11/14/02 21:26 ] |
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Quote: Quote: Boxing Day is celebrated in Australia, Britain, New Zealand, and Canada, That's how I knew about Boxing Day, my cousin lives In New Zealand and I went to visit him when I was 7. Thanks for the info destiny. |
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| Author: | destinyros2005 [ 11/15/02 06:15 ] |
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Anytime!
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| Author: | The Zookeepers Apprentice [ 11/19/02 14:15 ] |
| Post subject: | What are your Holidays?? |
Got this from a friend: Christmas Day - 25th December. Boxing Day (Day after Christmas) - 26th December Easter - usually March/April - depends on Moon (We have Good Friday and Easter Monday off work) New Years Day - Jan 1 Australia Day - Jan 27 Labour Day - May 5 Anzac Day (commemoration of people who died in wars) - April 25 (stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corp) Queen's B'day - June 9 |
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| Author: | AbsoluteAngel58 [ 11/21/02 20:23 ] |
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There are a lot of holidays on that list I've never heard of! Ooh I know this is off the topic, but... Turkey Day is coming! It's the only time, the parents try to cook something good. And even though the turkey always comes out bad, and the only thing that ever comes out good is the mashed potatoes since it comes out of a box... I still love Thanksgiving!
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| Author: | The Zookeepers Apprentice [ 11/21/02 23:29 ] |
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Thanksgiving: An excuse for a 4-day weekend that includes time to sleep late, eat well, see family, and *finally* start to get caught up on homework and feel a little less smothered by the load. And it's an indicator the semester is almost OVER and winter break is just around the corner, which is truly a reason to be thankful. *G* |
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| Author: | AbsoluteAngel58 [ 11/25/02 20:12 ] |
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Yep, you gotta love Thanksgiving! |
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