Teens: Celebrations!

Thanks for doing this! I celebrate a lot of celebration, but my favourite has got to be my birthday. For one day, I really get to feel special and be the star of the party

my family is Hindu, and we have a couple celebrations! two of my favorites are Holi and Raksha Bandhan :)

Holi is the festival of colors, and it celebrates the arrival of spring! it's well known for people spraying each other with colored water, and honestly it turns into a giant colorful water fight and it's so much fun!

Raksha Bandhan is less known, but it's to celebrate brother-sister relationships! i have a younger sibling and two younger cousins, all of them boys, and we celebrate it every year. there's more ceremonial stuff that my family doesn't usually do, but in a nutshell i tie a bracelet around all of their wrists and give them a hug! this symbolizes that they are now bound to me, and they have to protect me and be good 'siblings' to me. in exchange, i get money! haha for the longest time they were all annoyed that i was the one who got all of the money, but we all still appreciate the symbolism there.

I've actually never celebrated my birthday, my parents don't bother about things like that. Culture isn't my type of thing and there isn't a lot of celebrations in my community.

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Welp I dont belong to the country i live in however!! A few days ago we celebrated our country's national day and we got to wear these traditional outfits and DELICOUS FOOD!! it was AWESOME! uwu

Is there any food that is eaten specifically during celebrations? What about clothes, are traditional clothes worn, and if so, describe it a bit if possible! Are there any fun traditions you do in your culture for celebrations?

We don't do this as much, but for Lunar New Year we used to wear Hanboks (traditionally Korean dresses) and send videos of us speaking in Korean to relatives. In Korea there is a day called Children's Day, where all children get a day off of school to do fun things. Obviously in US we don't get the day off, but sometimes parents surprise us with little things on that day.

1) Saint David's day (Dewi Sant in my traditional language) is all about celebrating our patron saint, David. It isn't a public holiday but we celebrate it in schools and we have an Eisteddfod (this in English is basically "session", there isn't a direct translation). We wear traditional clothing like daffodils and black hats, with red plaid and skirts.

2) Not usually, we have a food called bara brith, which means "speckled bread", and another food called "laverbread": it's made from an edible type of seaweed, it's black in colour and slightly soft yet rough in texture.

There isn't exactly any culture in my family. We used to be primarily Christian, but that kinda faded out over time. We have big family gatherings at my grandma's every Christmas and Thanksgiving, and instead of having a party and giving presents on birthdays, we go somewhere big. I went ziplining for my birthday last year, and we went to the Bahamas for my little brothers birthday the year before.

@hopedreamlove

For Lunar New Year, my family eats a Korean dish called Ddeok-guk (it's a soup with small, oval-shaped, flat rice cakes and typically we add beef, seaweed flakes and dumplings). It's sooo good! I'm also supposed to get money from my relatives (haha) but they live across the ocean from me so :( But yeah! That's probably my favorite Korean holiday haha

@hopedreamlove

in my family, celebrations always need noodles of some sort, I don't know if it's only philipinos that have this or not tho lol- the noodles are supposed to bring a long happy life, I honestly can't remember going to a philipino party and there not being any noodles

@hopedreamlove

Yes, there are a lot of celebrations and stuff like that over here in Nigeria but for some reason, I can't remember any right now. I know that there's the New Yam Festival but that's mostly done in rural areas. It's celebrated when the first yams of the farming season are due for harvest. So basically, the yam cannot be eaten until the festival is done... I think. More info in this link