Halloween….SoRrY, but it doesn’t belong to my culture..

I really enjoyed reflecting on the topic of CULTURE, because nowadays it’s getting even more intriguing and complicated maintain the original and spiritual worth of a holiday. We are living in a time in which the business aims rule over the world.

Looking for further information about Halloween, I figured out that it has its origins in the ancient Gaelic festival known as Samhain, which was a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes erroneously regarded as the “Celtic New Year”. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31 the division between the world of living and the otherworld was blurred so spirits of the dead and inhabitants from underworld were able to walk free on the earth.

Over the time the exact customs and traditions regarding this holiday have been partly lost, lacking of primary documentation and above all integrated with other traditions like the Christian culture which had a great influence on it. In fact Pope Gregory IV standardized the date of All Saints’Day on November 1 in the name of entire Western Church in 835.

There’s no doubt that this festival originally belonged to the countries having a shared Gaelic culture and language, like Ireland, Scotland…
Halloween did not become a holiday in the United States until the 19th century and It was due to the transatlantic migration of nearly two million Irish following the Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849) finally brought the holiday to the United States. In Mexico, Halloween has been celebrated during the last 40 years where the celebrations have been influenced by the American traditions.

Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. But I can’t understand why is this holiday becoming famous even in my country? it seems that there is no longer the distinction between different cultures. People unconsciously tend to accept every “unknown” holiday in order to take advantage from a day off. In my view, what is the worst is that every kind of holiday represents a profitable business for every country or market.. Halloween in particularly is totally commercialized...