Southerising our Holidays
Posted by: Ermar
22nd Nov 2011 07:59am
Our holidays in New Zealand are Northern Hemisphere holidays and have lost their meaning as they do not relate to the correct season. For example, Christmas occurs in winter. Here we celebrate it in summer. Easter is celebrated in spring and is about new life and resurrection. Here in New Zealand, we celebrate it when everything is dying down. No chickens and bunnies are being born in autumn. Halloween is celebrated when it is getting darker and the pumpkins are ripe in the Northern Hemisphere. Here I hadn't even planted mine this year at Halloween.
How lovely it would have been this year if we could have closed the schools and celebrated Christmas, when most places in New Zealand experienced snow.
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