Sorry but I am about to skew the statistics :) I am MADLY in love with Halloween and I didn't grow up with it, so these aren't childhood memories of a sugar rush. My first Halloween was a teenage costume party in Geneva.
I think it's such a unique holiday with fascinating lore and fun traditions. Cheesy horror movies, candy corn, carved glowing pumpkins omg I can't get enough. In Switzerland/France, Halloween was mostly grown-up costume parties in the expat community but in the US, it is SPLENDIFEROUS for all ages and people here go all out.
And idk, I love holidays, including the more commercial ones. But then having grown up as an international kid, I have a patchwork cultural identity and not many holidays, except the purely religious, feel like someone else's party to me. At home, we do everything from the Jour de la Bastille to the Old Russian New Year - it's to whatever holidays any of us has an emotional tie and if we buy related food/decorations, it's all part of a good time. It's all my perspective, of course.
p.s. I haven't seen many kids without parents or in age-inappropriate costumes here; the zombies and ghouls are saved for the teenagers.
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Date: 2011-11-01 09:59 pm (UTC)I think it's such a unique holiday with fascinating lore and fun traditions. Cheesy horror movies, candy corn, carved glowing pumpkins omg I can't get enough. In Switzerland/France, Halloween was mostly grown-up costume parties in the expat community but in the US, it is SPLENDIFEROUS for all ages and people here go all out.
And idk, I love holidays, including the more commercial ones. But then having grown up as an international kid, I have a patchwork cultural identity and not many holidays, except the purely religious, feel like someone else's party to me. At home, we do everything from the Jour de la Bastille to the Old Russian New Year - it's to whatever holidays any of us has an emotional tie and if we buy related food/decorations, it's all part of a good time. It's all my perspective, of course.
p.s. I haven't seen many kids without parents or in age-inappropriate costumes here; the zombies and ghouls are saved for the teenagers.