What is the the difference between the spanish day of the dead and the american halloween?

Question

What is the the difference between the spanish day of the dead and the american halloween?
stuff like the food, decorations, traditions, history, and even religious aspects...

what are some of the differences?

Answer 1

oh my gosh, we justttt learned about this!!!!!
ok, so day of the dead,el de los muertos, is a celebration for death. Halloween is, like, just dressing up, getting candy, and mostly people are afraid of death. But in Spanish-speaking contries, they celebrate death. The beleive it is the beginning of a wonderful after life. The preperation for this holiday takes about two whole weeks! The actual celbration occurs on two days: November first, and November second. The first is to celebrate the death of children. The sencond is to celebrate dead adults... The gather in graveyards. They decorate the tomb stone, or tumbas, with marigolds, (flower of death), calacas, (skelatins) and other color, festive decorations. They have bands, sing songs, and eat. They have 'altars', stands/tables that they decorate to honer loved one(s). The altar is dressed with a picture of the person that they are celebrating, decorations, and that person's favorite foods. A pastry often made for this celebration, called 'pan de muertos', a moist dome-shaped loaf of bread decorated with frosting, icing, and other edible decorations. They spread marigold petals leading to the altar, which symbolizes the path for the dead spirits to lead them to their celebrator's altar. Day of the dead is a very common clebration on spain.

Answer 2

well man ur kinda confused, the only spanish spoken in europe is in spain, and its like the same spanish only that some words might b different, but only a little bit, and the spain accent has a 'th' and 's' sound, and their dialects can b known as gallego or catalego, i know this cuz my godmother is from spain then the difference between the south american accent is all different, if u go to the north where venezuela and colombia r, then their accents sound more slang and a bit more spanish (again, their words might b slightly different) and then if u go more south of the continent, where argentina and uruguay are, they're accent sounds more like an italian, their dialect can b known as castillian .they stretch out they're words and they pronounce more they're 'sh' sounds, i know this cuz im from argentina basically, all spanish accents r different, and we all understand each other, but some words can b different, its all just comes from different places and different people who were raised to talk that way, thats y it all sounds different. hope i helped :) basically.

Answer 3

American Halloween doesn't involve picnics in graveyards. We don't make skulls out of sugar for decorations. there is no religious implication. American Halloween is just kids dressing up and begging candy from neighbors. adults might dress up for a party, though. Hispanics (and pagans) honor their dead, but Americans (non-pagans) don't.