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?
no
Yes, like singing the birthday songs, and cakes, and even some gifts like balloons and drinks - everything is from wester culture, from Hollywood films. If I ask my mother, how she celebrated her birthdays, she would say that they didn't even celebrated it, just dinner and that would be it. No cake, no birthday songs, no exgenerated gifts, no liftting in the air.
Yes. As I mentioned before, most of us eat cakes and the lyrics of the song is in English.
Yeah, as I said just now, birthday song.
When it comes to birthday celebrations, I'm pretty sure that the candle blowing, cake and happy birthday song all probably came from the Western culture. I think that some other celebrations have been influenced by Western culture as well, for example Christmas (with the red Santa Claus and huge focus on buying things).
I think, yes. All these songs, birthday parties a lot of time ago were different from what they are now.
I don't know
Yes. We would never have celebrations like halloween o valentines day.