Mardi Gras or Carnival

Which do you celebrate

  • Celebrate Mardi Gras

    Votes: 3 27.3%

  • Celebrate Carnival

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • Neither

    Votes: 4 36.4%

  • What the Heck is that

    Votes: 2 18.2%
  • Total voters
    11
  • Poll closed .
Iceblade

Iceblade

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Mardi Gras, or the Spanish holiday of Carnival which I believe is in May, is finally here.

So how many celebrate it?
 
Check your facts, carnival it's mostly brazilian (even though its celebrated in most south american and southern europe countries )and it's in february.
 
I thought that Carnival was a Minyard's store for people who couldn't speak english.
 
Though I am aware that this is the Brazilians invented everything forum, Carnival dates back to ancient Rome at the very least.
 
I think he meant that it's celebrated mostly here, not that it was invented here. For example, Portuguese is a language originally from Portugal, with latin roots. But there are more people speaking it on Brazil than on Portugal.
 
Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican Holiday celebrating yet another French defeat. I doubt if the Spanish have heard of it.
 
Yeah, that was what I meant.
A Mexican holiday celebrated in May, either the 15th or 5th.
Thanks for clearing that up. :)

I didn't know, though, that it is celebrated by almost all of South America, including Brazil. I just thought it was a holiday celebrated by most Spanish-speaking nations.
 
Bandit LOAF said:
Though I am aware that this is the Brazilians invented everything forum, Carnival dates back to ancient Rome at the very least.
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Yeah, it is a celebration to pay homage to King Momo.
 
Ok...Loaf...
Carnaval, as it is, is a festival invented in brazil to celebrate the days before Easter, where you would be able to drink and eat meat (Carne=meat)
It was originated in brazil, yes, and was addapted or assimilated by other latin cultures

Its common for foreigners (in that I mean non-latins) to think that any sort of celebration including costumes in latin america is the same thing, but its not, in the same way you cant connect whatever celebration you are refering to in the roman times. I imagine youre refering to the celebrations to Baco (the origin of the world bachanal), which has absolutelly nothing to do with carnaval. that celebration was a sort of religious (yes) way to reach the god by drinking, eating and (I believe) fucking so much you would archive absolute estasy, like only the gods would know

Though there is a lot of reference to carnaval (and unfortunatly my country) relating to easy sex, its easy for people without proper knowledge to confuse them

There ARE other festivals, similar ones, around Latin America, the world and history, but its not because they have some similarity that they are alike

Im sure most (if not all) americans would scream and complain if I compared the american independence fireworks to what we have, lets say, in Rio's New Year's Eve celebration (even if that second one is definitly far bigger than anything I have ever saw in the world :)) or even to, lets say, the Chinese New Year

Now, please, dont make posts where you presume to know everything or that is agressive towards a country and their natives only because they once argued a valid point in history

EDIT: The King Momo was introduced only in 1933, and yes, a reference to the greek-roman god of irreverence and the celebration to saturn back in the roman days (specifically to Rio's carnaval). Carnaval is older than that...dates from like 1917 or so
 
Iceblade said:
I didn't know, though, that it is celebrated by almost all of South America, including Brazil. I just thought it was a holiday celebrated by most Spanish-speaking nations.
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Nobody likes the French. :)
 
Either or, who cares we are gonna throw a party for each at Phi Kappa Theta. Bring on the beads and bitties...
 
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