With the Fourth of July coming up and all I was wondering something. Do other countries besides the US celebrate the Fourth of July? I know it's an American holiday and all but I was curious to see if other countries celebrate it or not.
No. The fourth of July is an American only holiday because it's to celebrate their liberation from the British Government. In fact, I didn't even know it existed until about four or five years back when we brushed over the topic in history.
Yeah, here in Canada we celebrate Canada Day which is July 1st also known as Dominion Day. We don't celebrate the 4th of July, but American tourists come over here to be noisy, loud and to shoot off fireworks on that day. I say "bugger off and go do that in your own country!"
We Brits don't have a habit of celebrating our past defeats. You should watch "The Great Escape" - spells it all out in there. Potato anyone?
Sorry, I just saw that movie last week and I loved it. Potatoes....*snigger* Anyway, I knew other countries didn't celebrate July 4th, but of course with my normal American-centerdness I thought that everyone must know about it.
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Cinco de mayo was a complete American holiday -- it was made a big fuss when newly immigrated Mexicans felt discriminated against so, to celebrate their culture, made it a big deal. Since it had to do with beer, we Americans adopted it. The big day for Mexico is in September.
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Our poor Japanese host student thought there was a war on in the backyard...so, yeah. If it's not covered in English class, or something, other countries don't generally know about.
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Snoink wrote:Cinco de mayo was a complete American holiday
They still celebrate it in Mexico, as the day they beat the French slash gained independence from the French, but we Americans do tend you celebrate it on a bigger scale. And, come on, they do have Día de los Muertos, which is infinitetly cooler.
Funny thing, though, when I was in France, they celebrated American Independence Day, as well as their own Bastille Day.
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I don't know about anyone else, but in NZ we have nothing like that. I think the closest thing is Waitangi day, which is like on the 6th of February. It was the day all our Maori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi. =O
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