Although, in Poland the name days are much more important and celebrated than birthdays. And my name day is November 11th.[/quote]
My nephew (not MPG, another nephew) from Czech also celebrates name day!
(He always calls his grandparents that time of year, and says "so I was thinking about what I want for my name day." And for the first few years I was always thinking "wait, shouldn't he just get presents on his birthday like everyone else?" :woohoo: I thought it was the strangest thing back then, but now I think it's actually pretty cool. Also he lives with his parents in the U.S., although his mom and stepdad are both Czech as well, anyway they all three celebrate name days so I think it's cool that they keep that part of their culture.)
Although, in Poland the name days are much more important and celebrated than birthdays. And my name day is November 11th.[/quote]
My nephew (not MPG, another nephew) from Czech also celebrates name day!
(He always calls his grandparents that time of year, and says "so I was thinking about what I want for my name day." And for the first few years I was always thinking "wait, shouldn't he just get presents on his birthday like everyone else?" :woohoo: I thought it was the strangest thing back then, but now I think it's actually pretty cool. Also he lives with his parents in the U.S., although his mom and stepdad are both Czech as well, anyway they all three celebrate name days so I think it's cool that they keep that part of their culture.)[/quote]
In a way this is pretty funny, because (at least here in Poland) name days are more celebrated by the elder people while youngsters usually don't care about their name days. From the other hand, youngsters more care aout the birthdays than the elder people.
I would say that the reason for this is that with each birthday youngsters are older and older, and they want to show that each time they're 1 year older (and also they scream for presents, because they celebrate birthdays just to get some presents).
Elder people do not care much about their age or gifts, so they instead celebrate name days. Their most precious gift that day is that they can meet with their family, and while birthdays might not sound too nice ("one year less left to live"), name days do not have that sort of connotations.
Apparently it was apparently a pretty mild day, despite being in late January.
And this stuff about the Name Day is cool. I knew about it but not in this much detail. Though it's good to see that kids just wanting free stuff is universal:)
Joke.
. Some people can murder themselves to get some free stuff...