Well, here in Holland we have three very Dutch-specific celebrations that outsiders will most likely not know.
The first is Sinterklaas, a 500-year old catholic pimp with a cane and a boat full of black slaves (it's awesome how non-racist-phobic this country is). He arrives in the Netherlands per boat and basically plays the role that Santa Claus plays for you guys during Christmas (you stole that name, btw), except he does it end-November up till 6 December, when we get to open our packages. The second celebration is Koninginnedag on the 30th of April, which is the queen's birthday. For the ocassion, people usually dress up in weird, lame, orange pieces of clothing, get drunk, and hold en masse garage sales with stupid crap. The third celebration is Carnaval, which is a period that usually falls in February or March, has very little historical truth whatsoever, involves people dressing up in random outfits and is usually just an excuse for people who live in the southern part of the Netherlands to get drunk as fuck, party, make an unnessicarily large amount of noise, be inconsiderate pricks in general and accuse everyone who calls them out on it of not knowing how to have a good time.
Also, thanks for taking the effort in keeping this clean and all Bogdan - I'll keep an eye out and shout at anybody who makes fun of more than his own country.
Bogdan254 Regular ShmoeStarcraft community is made by a mix of different people from different countries. We all have our origins that of course don't define what kind of players or mapers we are but these origins more or less put on their marks in our hearts.
More or less we like to identify and be proud of our country, where we were born, where we grew and where we live.
As the title says, when do you celebrate your national day, what's the reasson behind the specific date - is it an independence day, a commemorative day or unification day ? - and how do you celebrate that day are people acting like it's an usual day or do they get more unified and hopeful for a better tomorrow for their nation?
WARNING In no way I incourage to racism,chauvinism or cosmopolitism. If this thread proves to become unconstructive and ends up in a rage war , instead of being an culture exchange like the religion thread ended up, I'll be more that glad if it gets locked by the moderators.
The purpose of this thred is to make a paceful, cultural and historical conversation(I know that these things never get working together) but If you can't accept the opinions of others or you can't crate a mature a constructive argument, than keep your ideas to yourself.
I know that I could search these things by myself(and I do) but I want to read what a person at thousands of miles away from me has to say.