There’s a lot of weird pieces of American culture which I believe started as immigrants telling their kids stories about where they emigrated from and trying to restart the traditions and culture of their heritage in the US that got mixed into the broader US cultural trappings. We only get like 5 federally mandated holidays off a year (if you work for a company above a certain size. Small businesses don’t have to give their employees any holidays or other benefits like sick days or health insurance), so there’s a lot of combining celebrations with holidays that people don’t have to work on.
You can drive across the country and find towns that look like they came right out of a tourism guide of Holland, or Germany, or the Netherlands, etc. that have their own weird celebrations of some bastardization of the culture/traditions of the country where the people emigrated from. It’s like a multi-generational game of telephone that started from a bunch of “when I was a kid…” stories.
There’s a lot of weird pieces of American culture which I believe started as immigrants telling their kids stories about where they emigrated from and trying to restart the traditions and culture of their heritage in the US that got mixed into the broader US cultural trappings. We only get like 5 federally mandated holidays off a year (if you work for a company above a certain size. Small businesses don’t have to give their employees any holidays or other benefits like sick days or health insurance), so there’s a lot of combining celebrations with holidays that people don’t have to work on.
You can drive across the country and find towns that look like they came right out of a tourism guide of Holland, or Germany, or the Netherlands, etc. that have their own weird celebrations of some bastardization of the culture/traditions of the country where the people emigrated from. It’s like a multi-generational game of telephone that started from a bunch of “when I was a kid…” stories.