vampireapologist:

so not to start a whole convo about this but i think one of the reasons i (and a lot of ppl) love halloween so much is that almost everyone i know in the US celebrates it! across race, religion, language, location, upbringing, gender, sexuality, etc. halloween is a completely open holiday that requires almost 0 cultural knowledge to get celebrating. i had neighbors from bangladesh who saw me put out a jack-o-lantern and their young son got rly excited and asked what it was for and the next day they had a pumpkin on their stoop he’d drawn a face on. it took 1 interaction to share a little piece of fun with someone with a vastly different cultural experience and background than me.

of course I won’t speak for everyone and I understand there may be some people who opt out based on one or more of those above factors, and I know there are some problems like offensive costumes, but for the most part in my experience growing up in the US just about everyone I’ve met loves Halloween and participates in it with equal enthusiasm

and in this country that’s just……..not common

so when people in europe and australia etc. make posts like “americans made me hate halloween bc they got so annoying about it”

it’s like man……..just let us enjoy ourselves thanks!!!!

halloween is! good!!!