Talk:Easter travel

See, do and eat

I think these sections should be developed significantly. "Go to church for mass and/or concert" does not live up to our expected tone, or to the experience of an Orthodox Easter Vigil, or a Passion concert. There should probably be a paragraph instead of each bullet. And a bullet of "mämmi" requires the reader to find a dictionary with that word, and even looking it up in Wiktionary says little.

Does somebody know enough to start expanding the bullets?

–LPfi (talk) 21:44, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

More about not-so-religious events

Currently we say:

"In the present day, Easter is more about the Easter Bunny (or the Easter bilby in Australia), egg hunts and similar not-so-religious events (at least in many Western countries), though it's probably the still most visibly religious festivity of the year."

Is this the Western countries, or the Protestant Western countries? Or the less religious circles everywhere? I assume Easter is still taken very seriously in, say, Latin America. What about Italy? What about Christian Africa? On the other hand, I could imagine China or Singapore mostly copying the non-religious aspects – but this may be prejudice.

–LPfi (talk) 07:13, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

I note that much of Latin America travels to beaches rather than going to the church. Is that a limited, secularised, part of the population or everybody who can afford? –LPfi (talk) 07:21, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Most certainly Easter too is taken seriously in countries where Christianity plays a larger part in people's lives and in the public scene (Latin America, some Oceanian countries and so forth).

In nominally Christian countries, I'd say Christmas and Easter are the two times of the year when people (well, notably more than on an average Sunday) attend church and there may be religious ceremonies in the public. Still, on Christmas, Santa Claus with his reindeers and elves, gifts, Christmas trees and other decorations and such things get almost all of the attention.

In Singapore, at least in 2013, Easter wasn't really visible in the streetscape other than a mass in a church I walked past. Christmas, to my understanding is largely celebrated in the Far East as a fun holiday, probably just because there are a lot of non-religious aspects to it. --Ypsilon (talk) 10:46, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

I know a lot of people who are from Polynesia (Tonga and Samoa, specifically), and for one, they take Easter very seriously, FWIW. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:27, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

I think how Easter is observed varies a lot between different people and communities within countries. As someone who played a Good Friday mass yesterday, I would affirm that millions of Americans take Holy Week very seriously, indeed. Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:03, 8 April 2023 (UTC)