• Fiat126@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    to be fair, it’s not just America, although it’s kinda just the uk as well, it is an irish/scottish holiday originally after all

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      2 months ago

      But in the US it’s a major event that’s ALL of October now. It’s a whole other level. Walk into CVS or Walgreens (equivalent of Boots) and there’s a wall of Halloween merch right inside the entrance.

      Or maybe the UK is the same now? After all, it has Black Friday sales.

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        2 months ago

        even in my lifetime the Americanisation of halloween has been really weird, it’s obviously a lot more commercialised, but also nobody calls it guising anymore it’s honestly kinda depressing since a lot of our traditions have just been replaced with american ones

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      2 months ago

      The holiday came about because that’s when the potato harvest is, and they needed schoolkids to work in the fields

      Halloween has always been a thing in the UK though, it’s just more for little kids