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So cool to read about everyone's home tradition they miss the most! I'm from England but I've been living in the States for five years and the thing I miss the most is Bonfire Night on November 5th.
The best thing about Bonfire Night is the fireworks, oh, and the bonfires! … and the history behind it. Basically, Guy Fawkes and his friends tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill King James I. They nearly did it too – they hired a room under the House of Parliament and filled it with explosives. But someone told the royal palace. The authorities found Guy Fawkes in the room guarding the explosives, and he was sentenced to torture and death.
So it's a tradition that celebrates the fact that the king survived. It also means people don't forget what happens if you plot against your country. There's a kind of poem about it that starts 'Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.' That's why we build a 'guy' – a life-size model of Guy Fawkes – and burn it on the bonfire. Pretty dark and horrible when you think about it!
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Hi there! I had really fun while reading about all of those different cultures and traditions. It shows the beauty of our differences and sometimes even our similarities. I find this astonishing and also amazing. Hello! My name is Rosie. I'm from Türkiye. From my childhood, I really miss the memories of me celebrating the Children's day on April 23rd Yes! We have a day to celebrate being a child. Not only for the children of our country, but also we celebrate the day for all the children around the world. The day is called National Sovereignty and Children's Day. Our first president Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK declared the day of first opening of Grand National Assembly of Türkiye as a national holiday for adults and children to celebrate. Since then, we celebrate every year. For this day only, we memorized poems about sovereignty and being a child. We also practiced our national dances and prepared fun activities. Then on this day, we showed those activites we had prepared and the dances we had practiced to our families, our friends and to all of the adults. We read the poems we had memorised before. As a child I felt joy and most importantly I felt treasured. Now as a young adult, I treasure those memories and I find being a child valuable. That's why I respect our history and our country. We shouldn't forget that all grown-ups were once children. ''Peace at home, peace in the world.'' -Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
In Brazil we enjoy Carnaval the most, is a specif data that celebrates with particular dances in the streets...
Hello everyone, I am from Myanmar. It is so nice to see different traditions around the world. In my country, Thingyan Festival is the most popular and I like it the most. It is a water festival. We cleanse ourselves by throwing water at each other. We make good deeds. That is the way we start fresh each year. It is the week of cleansing, warmth and reunion.
I think the best tradition is making rice during Eid al-Fitr because it's a very warm tradition when our whole family gathers together
Hi, I'm from Mexico and the tradition that I most like is called "Día de muertos", too colors, flowers (specially one flower known as Cempasuchil, that small great), candles, stories and more...
Hello everyone,I'm glad to share with traditions in my country.Actually i live in Kazakhstan and there lots of tradtions and older ones are strict when it comes to tradition of Kazakhstan.So must well-known tradition is Nauryz-Bayram.We celebrate our tradition on 22th March, and at this day we prepare too much kazakh-foods like Nauryz-Kozhe,Bezhbarmak,Kuyrdak and etc.We,Kazakhs wear our traditional clothes.Womens wear long skirt with hat name is Saukele and Mens wear Takia and etc.So that's it
Hello, everyone.
Well, one of the most representative traditions of my country is the Novena de Aguinaldos, celebrated nine days before Christmas, on 16 December to be exact. In the evening, families and friends gather and begin with traditional Catholic prayers to the baby Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph, and the story of the birth of Jesus. Then a song is sung that goes something like this, along with prayers that are the joys. The evening ends with food and togetherness with the family.
hello everyone, I am Mohammed from Syria, today I will talk about tradition meal in my country.
Falafel is the favorite meal of the most of Syrians, you can eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner too.
you can buy it from anywhere and you can make it in your house.
it contains beans and vegetables, it is eaten as sandwiches, you can drink tea or cola with it.
Tell me if you try Falafel before.
I've been surprised by many amazing traditions around the world. I am Marwa, from Egypt, a lot of traditions here but let me dive in one of them, Eid El Fetr is where we should wake up at 4:00 am, have a shower and eat a homemade cake which is made especially for the Eid, go to pray in open air places with all people, recite duaa, people give sweets and balloons to kids after praying and talk to each other, in this Eid we celebrate that we have been fastened Ramadan and thanks god for all his blessings.