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Originally Posted by Knightrunner
I think we should celebrate more festivals like they do in Japan here in the United States.
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Almost all folk festivals, not just those in Japan, are rooted in a culture's agrarian past. So, it's usually quite pointless to adopt a foreign culture's festival if you're not celebrating what the festival was originally meant to commemorate.
(You'd otherwise get soulless, commercialised holidays like Christmas, Halloween and Valentine's Day.)
It's not about how "old" or "pretty" a festival looks whenever it's celebrated, but rather about what the festival symbolises for a community. You Americans, for example, have Thanksgiving, a holiday that has special meaning for you, but which is totally meaningless for everyone else in the world.