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Today is Mother's Day
davelovesleeds
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Just a quick reminder maybe for those who have mums who live elsewhere in the world that today is Mother's Day in many places such as US, Canada, across the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, many African countries etc.
We forgot. , Too late to send a card through the post.
We forgot. , Too late to send a card through the post.
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Don't do that!!!! You evil person :D
Me too >:(
Changing it would create confusion, not reduce it.
Why? Those countries celebrating today followed us in the tradition., Not that there's anything wrong with different dates or names. It's more commonly referred to as Mothers Day here now.
Do we all have to be one homogenised mass?
Other countries did not follow the UK, Mothers Day started in America in the early 20th Century and spread around the world most countries adopted the American 2nd Sunday in May. When Britain imported Mothers Day in the 50s rather than use which had become the international standard we appropriated the Similar sounding but unconnected extinct religious observance called Mothering Sunday. Every year we have the same petty Religious V Secular squabbles by addopting the international standard those squabbles are avoided.
I went to Crete one year for Easter only to find that 'their' Easter was two weeks later than 'ours'.
Was just going to post something similar. This is a nice short summary of the different days. http://mashable.com/2015/03/13/mothers-day-mothering-sunday/
edit- not that I care when different countries celebrate their holidays.
Well that proves you're never too old to learn! Thank you. Do squabbles matter? I still don't see any need to align ourselves with other countries for this or any other celebration.
You are right of course, I was over analysing the situation the annual sqaubles are restricted to forums such as this and are hardly representitive of the out side world and seing as Mothering Sunday was near extinct 60+ years ago the annual forum sqaubles are simply petty one up manship. And as you say the world would be boring if we all did things on the same day.
Is your name Monica Geller?
Mothering Sunday has been celebrated in Britain since the 16th century.
Same here.