2006-10-24 17:15:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
well celebrate it then if your that bothered
2006-10-25 05:05:11 · answer #1 · answered by sasha 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where you are in Britain, but here in Glasgow Hallowe'en has been celebrated for a LONG time. Children always dressed up in home made outfits and went round the doors locally "guising" which meant they would sing a song or recite a poem or tell a joke, to be given some fruit and nuts or more recently sweets etc. There was NEVER any "trick or treat" element, and still isn't round here.
Even the american pumpkin lanterns come from here originally. The pagan Celts of Scotland and ireland would each put a burning ember from the communal autumn bonfire into a hollowed out turnip lantern to carry it home with them to light their fires. Many pagan celebrations were continued as Christian ones, as it was a simpler way of persuading the pagans to convert to christianity, still keeping their traditions. So all Hallow's eve was included. (Christmas trees and yule logs are pagan too) Hence the turnip lantern. These are still sometimes made here, but they are hard work to make! When the Scots/Irish emigrated to the US they took the tradition with them and at some point it changed to the easier to carve out, pumpkin!
In Scotland until perhaps 50 years ago, Christmas was a much smaller affair than the new year celebration which at that time didnt exist in England etc. We seem to have kept pagan festivals more. So... Scots celebrate Hallowe'en... we just keep it real with no tricking, egging of houses etc. ;)
2006-10-24 18:12:34 · answer #2 · answered by katy1pm 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We in the USA celebrate Halloween??!! You call what we do nowadays "celebrating Halloween"?!!!##?
I thought Halloween ended when PC and the Comintern took over. (The Pagans and the Evangilists don't approve of it either...)
Now it's a "Harvest Festival."
But when I was a kid, it was really fun, really scary, and really safe.
And you don't celebrate it like we used to, because it was a mix of "All Hallow's Eve" customs that were resurrected over here by all the mixes of people who came to America. Traditions that had been supressed in Europe and elsewhere did very well, especially since the basic concepts of Halloween (facing up to, and overcoming fear, and enjoying the childhood game of "let's pretend,") was something that people from many different cultures discovered they could share.
It's a great Holiday to have. Learn about it. Start it up in your countries again. It's fun. It needs to be saved. Serve mankind, help civilization, convert to being one of the Undead now!
2006-10-24 17:34:19 · answer #3 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You want to buy trashy plastic rubbish costumes produced in sweatshops across the Far East, expensive nonsense that will get thrown away and add more polllutants to our lives AND lose the meaning of Halloween completely and forget about All Saints' Day on 1st November?
Save your money, buy fireworks with it for Guy Fawkes (something they do NOT have in the USA) or give it to Children in Need.
2006-10-24 19:43:28 · answer #4 · answered by CE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason why the brits don't celebrate halloween is England didn't celebrate halloween till the 20th century, which it did not travel with australia and new zeland with the brits colonization. It says its not really celebrated in australia or in new zeland, which is why brit doesn't celebrate it either.
2006-10-24 17:27:52 · answer #5 · answered by okalie dokalie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we have more style.
The Americans nicked All Hallows Eve off us.
Besides celebrating with increasingly sick horror movies whilst sending your kids round begging isn't my idea of fun.
Anyway, what at the end of the day are we celebrating?
2006-10-24 17:51:43 · answer #6 · answered by Simon D 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you can celebrate it if you want to no1s stoping ya. its bad enough anyway all those kids knocking at the door saying trick or treat.
americans just like going over the top
2006-10-24 17:36:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's celebrated here but I don't really like it. I don't like stupid costumes and stupid parties and stupid kids asking for candies. Never done that myself. I prefer carolings, I did that when I was young.
2006-10-24 17:30:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you should move to the u.s.a. halloween is very popular here
2006-10-24 17:26:41 · answer #9 · answered by Angry 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
im australian and its not really celebrated here either besides a couple of kids trick or treating..kinda sucks...cos its my birthday
2006-10-24 17:17:19 · answer #10 · answered by yep ive left 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
don`t no but good thing 4 me is im at work at that time.
2006-10-24 17:21:56 · answer #11 · answered by dorianfreeman@btinternet.com 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋