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W∴ Balboos wrote:
Try it - you'll like it!

Believe it or not, but commercial interests here in Sweden are doing their best. Halloween is one of your traditions that is invading our country at the moment (don't misunderstand me, I don't mean it in a negative way, more a sort of a resigned way), Thanksgiving is lurking just around the corner, and no doubt, that will be the next step.... D'Oh! | :doh:

It is, however, quite hard to adapt a tradition from another country when you don't really know what it's about, and what to do and what to say. Halloween is quite straight forward, In Denmark where I come from originally, we actually have an old heathen custom called Fastelavn (normally celebrated in late winter, early spring) that is quite similar (although not 100%) to Halloween, and how hard can it be to dress up spookily on the last day of October and beg for candy? We actually also have our own holiday ("All Saints Night") on the 1st of November, but without dressing up and begging for candy.

As far as I'm concerned, Thanksgiving is too close to Christmas, I prefer to spread out the holidays a little more. But the turkey part is certainly a plus. I love turkey, and it's something we rarely - if ever - get here in Sweden.
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