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The 4th of July is the biggest holiday of the year in my family because we're heavily involved with the stores. I was just confused how we were skipping that.
It's only celebrated in the US though, there are no big international holidays between now and Halloween in the west.
I know. That's why I concluded they weren't American. I was just commenting on my thought process when I read it. Also, kind of crazy that there's not a single holiday in the summer for you guys.
Halloween is an American/Canadian holiday. You can talk about Samhain and such if you want, but Halloween is descended from those traditions, they're not the same thing.
It's not, what we know as Halloween started in the year 400 as a Roman celebration based on the Celtic Samhain celebration.
The Roman empire was known for combining their culture with whatever new cultures they found.
If you want to be even more picky about the origina you could look forward to the year 800 or so and the Holy Roman Empire and that would make it both French and German in a way.
Sooo... It's Ireland, Roman, French or German depending on how you want to look at it, all of them centuries before the US and Canada became a thing.
This took me 10 minutes to research...
Illiterates, lmao