Should Halloween be a National Holiday?

konrad16660

There are a lot of holidays out there that I don't particularly break out the lawn chairs and barbecue for since they really have no meaning to most people I encounter such as MLK day and Columbus day and Cesar Chavez day.  They are meaningful, but not particularly to eveyone out there.  Now, there are days like Halloween that are completely awesome and people look forward to them all month and year long such as Halloween.  The question is, shoudl Halloween seeing as it is a major holliday for Americans and people worldwide be a National Holiday where people should get they day off to enjoy it?

Waterlily

Originally posted by konrad16660


 The question is, shoudl Halloween seeing as it is a major holliday for Americans and people worldwide be a National Holiday where people should get they day off to enjoy it?

 

It's a commercial scam now in Europe and US companies pushing it to sell their products while no one cares.

It's funny when you ask them what the holiday is about and they tell you it's about 'trick or treating', I want to slap them at that point.

The whole thing annoys me, I don't want to hear about it because it means nothing anymore. 99% of the people celebrating it don't even know what it's about.

Sorry to be so negative, but ya, just stating my opinion.

 

declaredemer

Yes.  I do.  I agree it is a holiday that everyone looks forward to.  A friend of mine has her birthday on Halloween, and we are all going out and then back to her new house.  I have been looking forward to this, as you said, for like months.  Ha, ha ha!  

 

 

This is the first time, in the past... gosh, many years... where I have not had class and/or work on Halloween; this is literally my first free Halloween.

 

 

I am very much looking forward to it!  Happy halloween!

Cleffy

We cannot have Halloween a Holiday in the US.  We would have too many official holidays during the fall season.

pudgepudge

good thing people don't go trick or treating here during halloween. but yeah, it is pretty commercialized since companies here make every product of theirs fit the day. there's the kfc halloween bucket then the 711 monster straw. pretty much just everything has halloween written on it.

on declaring it a worldwide holiday, no. one, it's the semestral break for most schools here so it won't be much of a benefit for students. two, there's already a string of holidays for all saints' day and all souls' day.

CactusmanX

Yes it should, and so what if it is commercialized and lost its meaning, it is still fun.  I mean no one celebrates the 4th of July because of historical signifigance, they just like fireworks and no one celebrates Christmas for the winter solstice, they just like presents.

Also Saint Patrick's Day should be too.

Cleffy

Originally posted by CactusmanX


Also Saint Patrick's Day should be too.

 

I think the day after Saint Patrick's Day should be a holiday.

Signe

Halloween (well, the timing of it anyway) has religious significance, both Christian and Pagan, but that all got muddied up ages ago.  Now it's some day where little kids knock on my door and beg for sweets.  Mostly, I ignore it unless they're insistant then I yell at them to get off my lawn.  When I live in Britain, I ignore the "penny for the guy" beggars, too.  They don't really want a penny - they want a fiver.  No thanks.  Get a dog on a rope and sit in front of the bus station if you want to be a proper begger.  I can't reisist a cute puppy!  A Darth Vader mask or dragging around an effigy of Guy Fawkes isn't going to get me to buy candy or reach for my wallet.

So, no, I don't think it should be a national holiday, though I don't care if people enjoy celebrating any thing they like.  I will enjoy my freedom to ignore it all.  Of course, I don't think half the holidays there are should be national - an awful lot of them have nothing to do with a country and every thing to do with religion. 

MarleVVLL

I vote no.. "Hey guys! Let's all dress up like demons, whores and murderers while participating in gluttony! Yeah! Hoorah!"

Blessings,

konrad16660

Originally posted by MarleVVLL


I vote no.. "Hey guys! Let's all dress up like demons, whores and murderers while participating in gluttony! Yeah! Hoorah!"
Blessings,

 

 Halloween does have a lot of history.  People around the world have been celebrating the dead for centuries.  People don't just have to dress up as what you were speaking of either.  What you are referring to maye is the more commercialized hollywood take on halloween.  There are a lot of hollidays where people celebrate gluttony, and much more such as Thanksgiving and fourth of July and New years.  I think all hollidays should be looked at with fun, because that is what we have.

Signe

That's fine.  I think people should celebrate any holiday they like in any way they like.  The question was, however, should Halloween be made into a NATIONAL holiday.  You know, the sort where banks, schools, federal buildings, etc. close and people get the day off work or paid overtime.  I just don't see it being that sort of holiday. 

SioBabble

There's no need for Halloween to have any sort of official sanction.  It only takes up six or so hours to actually celebrate, as in Trick or Treating (or Trick or Drinking, as celebrated in dorms and greek houses across the nation).

No need to give bankers and bureaucrats the day off for Halloween.