Didn't want to wait till Halloween to end this so you can have this a couple weeks early. I might find something else for Halloween.

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Just curious, is anyone from a country where Halloween is not part of their culture but some people still dress up and celebrate it individually? Anyone from a country where it's illegal?

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In Russia, there is no such holiday as Halloween. However, there are many people who celebrate it and wear interesting costumes.

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That's cool. I read somewhere the Russian govt. was saying Halloween was illegal.

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There is no law that says Halloween is illegal. But some people want the holiday to become illegal.

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In poland pedophile catholic church and their govt are against halloween.
But its not illegal, yet...

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lol. In America, there is no such holiday as Halloween. However, many kids go door to door begging for candy, and adults go to costume parties. If you do not want to feed beggars, turn out your lights and do not answer your door unless you want to look silly in front of a 6-year-old kid

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have a sandwich bump!

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Traditionally people gather at cemeteries for a service to honor the dead (in the afternoon). Halloween has become a thing since the occupation of parts of Germany by the US army after WWII. Now kids in costumes run from house to house in the evening asking for treats just like in North America.

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Halloween traditions started in Europe. The U.S.A. just expanded on them. :)

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Given that a huge part of US population have immigrants as ancestors (mostly from Europe) you're definitely right. Where in Europe originated this tradition then? I'd bet on Great Britain or Ireland.

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Yes, Ireland or thereabouts. It comes from the old Celtic observance of Samhain.

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I think, that in all of the former East European Warsaw Pact countries Halloween (as well as Valentine's Day) has been totally absent until 1989. While Valentine's Day is becoming quite popular here, Halloween is still almost ignored in Poland - the reason being, that All Souls' Day tradition of commemorating the dead is so strong, serious and sober here, that for most Poles it would feel improper to Trick or Treat in those days. Which is simply a cultural difference.
Myself, living in US, I've enjoyed Halloween very much, but living back in Poland now, I would rather stay here with our own ways of celebrating those days.

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Halloween wasn't a thing in my country (Spain, West Europe) till the last 10 years or so

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Bump!^^

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Thanks!

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While we do have halloween here, for most of my life I've lived above the ground floor in like a flat or something so its not really something I've experienced. I only went out a couple of times myself as a kid and we had to travel quite far away to find a place with houses as everywhere else requires buzzing up and I assume most people in flats don't bother buying sweets because you don't expect anyone to knock on your door unless you are close to your neighbour. I don't think I ever went trick or treating with my brothers and only saw them get costumes because of school reasons

My fondest memory was when I went to my great grandparents who lives a couple of hours away. They are in an area with so many houses so I was just a happy little devil and over 10+ years I still got this witch doll they gifted me to celebrate my 1st halloween with them. I still miss the chocolate from one of those houses, it was the best dark chocolate I ever had. I remember the family that gave it to me as they asked if I was a good little devil

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That's nice :)

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Here in Argentina Halloween just wasn't a thing at all until about a decade ago, I only knew about it because of movies and TV series from the US, now there's some people that organize costume parties but that's the extent of it.

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In Poland it's not really what we celebrate as a culture thing. It got pretty popular only maybe throughout the last decade or so, mostly cause of social media/TV/movies or series but it only serves as theme for sales/store decorations/parties (either at home or in clubs, costumes or not). There's no such thing as trick-or-treating, people don't get sweets for that.

And it's not like it's illegal, cause it's not, but some conservatives or church authorities would shout on about how it is devilish and such XD

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pretty popular

I don't really know anyone that actually takes Halloween seriously in Poland, so I'd say probably it got popular in some niche groups, or some people simply decided to give it a try, but not that it's actually popular among people.. What it got the most was probably exposure in the media ^^

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I guess so. I mean, when I was studying and living in a big city, you could see a lot of "theme parties" or club nights around that time and/or people would organize some costume parties, mostly private tho. Oh, and cinemas premiere a lot of horrors at this time, including organizing so called "halloween marathon" to watch 3 or 4 horrors through the night. :D

Other than that, no costumes in the streets, no celebration as such.

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In Brazil we don't have a proper "halloween"... We just dress up like US movies and stuff, but it isn't a thing at all. We probably imported halloween from movies (and english school that likes to share US+UK culture). Candies? Tricks? Treats? Nope. Only costumes.

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As far as I'm told, Halloween is primarily a Catholic holiday. Bulgaria (and Russia, and most of Eastern Europe) is Orthodox which doesn't really have that in any way (or Valentine's day, or the whole chocolate thing for Easter). We have a bunch of other equally pointless holidays instead. :D

Honestly, I'm not sure if anything has changed lately since I live in an apartment block and don't go out much. I'd imagine some people dress up just for the heck of it. ^_^'

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I'm an expat living in Bulgaria and after more than 6 years, except 2-3 kids in the street in Sofia, nobody cares about Halloween...

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It's the same in America. If you have your lights off it's like an unspoken rule that you're not participating. Although it feels like Halloween is getting less popular now, I mean even before Covid.

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what's sad is that Candy Corn and Hershey's Kisses are the very definition of cheap-shit candy

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What kind of candy do kids get? Dingbat is right, in the U.S. candy corn and hershey kisses are junk candy. The chocolate here is low quality in general. I'd like to try some Australian candy.

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It's funny because in '88 the chocolate seemed to taste better. Nowadays most chocolate you buy here in the supermarkets taste like garbage. Or maybe my taste buds have evolved I dunno. I'd love to try other country's chocolates. It's hard to believe they could be worse than the U.S.'s. Sometime ago I ate so-called chocolate truffles and the first ingredient listed on the package was vegetable oil. So it was basically fake chocolate and it was from Costco, a place you wouldn't think sold fake foods. But don't get me started on fake foods in America. That's a whole another story.

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If you're specifically talking about candy stores then yes that's a step up from the supermarkets but also more expensive. What kind of chocolate do they have in Australian supermarkets?

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So basically the same as U.S. That's depressing. Maybe they make it with better ingredients though. Budweiser beer is disgusting in the U.S. but in Europe it tastes different and is supposed to be pretty good.

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As you said there are many cases where companies use inferior ingredients for some of their regional markets like nutella but in this case those are actually 2 different companies.

I was gonna make a snarky comment about how the Czechs probably brew Budweiser for longer than the United States have existed but after looking into it both companies were founded roughly around the same time with the US one actually being a couple years older.

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It's getting a lot more popular where I am in a smaller regional town. The kids love it and most of the locals put in a bit of effort for the local kids.

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Nothing of that scale yet but I wouldn't be surprised if someone did it one year soon. It won't be this year though...cough cough.

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My first "real" Halloween was I think 13 years ago in the US (I left some gifts there, a zombie rubber duck it was so cool πŸ₯Ί).
Wasn't really thing 20 years ago here in Germany. Over the years, media and also marketing trying to make it big but can't compare to the US thing.

I know one elderly couple who gets aggro when the kids come: "It's reformation day..." something like this.

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heh reformation day, that's funny

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ItΒ΄s not really a thing in Argentina, but in recent years some people celebrate it.

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Can't wait! Bring out the skeletons!

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There are halloween parties in Hungary, but all hallows eve is the official one. I guess it is weird to light candles to remember your past relatives, then dress up as a slutty whatever, but people manage it.It's fine. But "public" trick or treating won't happen I guess, it's way too foreign of a habit, with no grounding here at all.

I'm personally still all-on for customs that are based on joy and fun, most of our national holidays are about remembering the times when everything sucked. Or we tried to change, but lost and things still sucked. Having fun at halloween is as strange when someone asks you to bite into your back I guess. Fun is forbidden here, only sad remembrance.

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I blame Vlad for that. ;)

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I'm from the US, so I've always had Halloween. I appreciate that some people can be apprehensive of American culture overtaking their own, but... Halloween is fun. Dress up, watch some spooky movies, and have some candy.

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πŸ‘»πŸŽƒγ€€πŸ‘€πŸ—Ύγ€€I've often seen such decorations.
However, last year and this year, due to the "emergency" situation, I haven't seen any so far.
There are no holiday holidays.

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Bump in the night :)

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yay! happy halloween! thanks!

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In France nobody cares about Halloween.

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In Canada, Halloween is going strong. Not sure how much the pandemic has affected the trick-or-treating, but it still seems like there are a fair number of them.

I'm not able to enter, but here is a bump nonetheless.

Even though I am way past the age of trick-or-treating (by several decades), I still love the holiday. :)

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Happy Early Halloween, thank you for the chance :)

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