Birthday celebration traditions in East Asian countries (China, South Korea and Japan) and Lithuania
You you think that Western culture has influenced your country's traditions? If yes, then how? Have you found some examples in your life?
Eating out..?.
yes i thnk so. Thesedays many people celebrate their birthday at a bar. i think thats the influence of western culture.
Yes a lot. I think everything we do regarding birthday celebration is from western culture. I actually don't know what the traditional way of celebration in Japan.
It is. My family still keep luna calendar birthday but most of korean dont anymore.
Yeah, we sing 'su gimimo diena' which is a western song 'happy birthday'.
I think bithday cake and candle blowing is purely a western tradition that has come to our culture.
Yes, for birthday songs, as I mentioned above, we sing English one. Japan has so much of Western culture, for example, our fashion is often influenced by the Western
the birthday song is all english so it definitely affected by the culture from overseas (could be USA). We are mostly buddhism but celebrate christmas SO MUCH! and after few days we celebrate a new year with wearing Kimono and traditional Japanese songs.