Interesting that you should mention Ramadan, as it allows me to recount something I saw last year.
I don't know if you have the same thing in the states (I think you do because I saw it in the movie Bad Santa) but here we have these over priced poor quality chocolate dispensing mechanisms called advent calendars.
Personally I think They're a covert way to prepare people for a life of taking daily medication from bubble packaging but that's by the by. Back when I lived in Leicester (which is probably the most culturally diverse city in Britain, one of the few places where immigrants outnumber racists) I saw chocolate filled Ramadan calendars on sale in the local ASDA (our variant of Walmart)
From what I can tell, shops are clearly trying to push the other holidays in an attempt to make them as profitable as Christmas, but until we start buying our kids Playstation 2s for Easter, Christmas is where the money is.
See that's what I thought, but as I know so little about the festive calendars of other cultures, I assumed there was some aspect of Ramadan which validated it. On most month-long fasts I recall from my long-long-ago religious education lessons, there were a few hours of the day when eating was okay, as a method of actually not starving to death. Perhaps the chocolate is to reward kids for a full days fast the day before...
Ramadan is a complete fast (unlike Lent or Advent no meat/dairy/oil small meals no snacks type fasting) during daylight, and each day when the sun goes down there can be feasting with family and friends. Because of the way the calendar is figured, the length of the day nd thus of the fast varies from year to year.
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I don't know if you have the same thing in the states (I think you do because I saw it in the movie Bad Santa) but here we have these over priced poor quality chocolate dispensing mechanisms called advent calendars.
Personally I think They're a covert way to prepare people for a life of taking daily medication from bubble packaging but that's by the by. Back when I lived in Leicester (which is probably the most culturally diverse city in Britain, one of the few places where immigrants outnumber racists) I saw chocolate filled Ramadan calendars on sale in the local ASDA (our variant of Walmart)
From what I can tell, shops are clearly trying to push the other holidays in an attempt to make them as profitable as Christmas, but until we start buying our kids Playstation 2s for Easter, Christmas is where the money is.
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right you are