Just a comment, one of the reasons V-day is probably more marketed as guys buying women stuff because diamonds are just way more expensive than... well, almost anything a woman would buy for a guy. It's interesting to note that the Japanese have the occasion marked by the ladies giving the guys chocolates, and the guys repaying the gesture a month later with gifts.
We don't have as much of a holiday craze locally, I think (well, it could be just me, since I'm detached from society on the whole, but I prefer not to think of it as such), I think there's only Christmas and the Lunar New Year as I said before, as the major ones, and maybe Valentine's will start being pushed 2-3 weeks in advance since that one is so profitable. We don't have anything sold for our National (independence) Day--which was just a couple days ago incidentally--unless you count national flags, but no one needs more than one of those, for those who can be bothered to hang one up. But we have lots of patriotic ads on TV and there'll be some banners lining the streets I suppose.
I think it might be better here because we're fairly multiracial and have two days a year for each major racial and religious group (Hari Raya for the muslims, Deepavali for the Indians, and so on), and people just might pay more attention to their traditional celebrations in their respective communities, and just make use of the marketed merchandise when necessary. Possibly it's a politic thing to not push any holiday overly hard either, since it might be construed by some as unfair (ignorantly) if their racial holiday isn't hawked as much. I think Christmas doesn't count because it's a big international holiday, and Chinese New Year gets some leeway as the majority population is Chinese.
Then again, it could be just me being unrealistically optimistic about the whole thing. :")
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Date: 2007-08-12 04:45 pm (UTC)We don't have as much of a holiday craze locally, I think (well, it could be just me, since I'm detached from society on the whole, but I prefer not to think of it as such), I think there's only Christmas and the Lunar New Year as I said before, as the major ones, and maybe Valentine's will start being pushed 2-3 weeks in advance since that one is so profitable. We don't have anything sold for our National (independence) Day--which was just a couple days ago incidentally--unless you count national flags, but no one needs more than one of those, for those who can be bothered to hang one up. But we have lots of patriotic ads on TV and there'll be some banners lining the streets I suppose.
I think it might be better here because we're fairly multiracial and have two days a year for each major racial and religious group (Hari Raya for the muslims, Deepavali for the Indians, and so on), and people just might pay more attention to their traditional celebrations in their respective communities, and just make use of the marketed merchandise when necessary. Possibly it's a politic thing to not push any holiday overly hard either, since it might be construed by some as unfair (ignorantly) if their racial holiday isn't hawked as much. I think Christmas doesn't count because it's a big international holiday, and Chinese New Year gets some leeway as the majority population is Chinese.
Then again, it could be just me being unrealistically optimistic about the whole thing. :")