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Originally Posted by ethine
I understand where you're coming from. Australia is similar. As soon as an Aussie thinks of "Australia Day", one automatically thinks of A LOT of booze.No one really puts in the effort to appreciate unique Aussie stuff which is sad because as boring as it looks, it really is a wonderful country to live in.The only other day that we "celebrate" our Australian-ism is ANZAC day (remembering the men and women who fought in all our wars).
We are also lacking severely in any other type of celebration or tradition.
Japan has stuff like Obon, Children's day and Seijin No Hi (coming of age).
Stuff like that really strengthens a country I think, and a lot of places (particularly western) seem to be lacking it. It's sad I think 
I also think the fundamentals of celebration is to be happy and socialise, and most find happiness and enjoyment from having a day off just to drink and chill :} I know I love it!
*rant rant rant*
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I think your right about that.^^
Western countries don't have much of these things like Obon, ANZAC, .. Belgium doesn't ..at least not that I know of. ( and I've been here for all my life) I wish we would though.. We do have a lot of music festivals in the summer! Like Graspop Metal Meeting ( alot of metal, industrial, etc bands come there) I love GMM I feel so free there.. and we also have Werchter wich is all kinds of music the same goes for Pukkelpop and Polsslag but those aren't the same as something like Obon..