My native American ancestors are laughing at the irony of Euros, complaining that their clusterfuck of an imperialist playground has evolved to over-write all their quirky cultural intricacies with a hyper-commericalized Hallmark holiday. Fuck your traditions.
Even in Ireland where it originated it wasn’t like it is now until the 90’s.
It’s about the same in Brazil
And Russia
Meanwhile in America we have to cherish it because the two months between Halloween and New Years is the only thing resembling culture and a shared identity that we have left and the rest of the year is depressing and lonely (the bar is very low)
Well, there’s Super Bowl Sunday and Valentine’s Day in the same week, but that’s scrapping the barrel. They probably wouldn’t be too bad if they weren’t monetized to hell and back.
Haha I thought the same thing we’ve got some heavily commercialized sporting events to get us through winter and that’s it
