what are some of the festivals your ethnic group celebrate?

[holy alma]

i am an Ewe from Ghana, specifically from Mepe, we celebrate Apenoto during the month of August. My mother's family love to celebrate Easter we have a lot of easter parties razz razz  

[Areliana]

In Australia we "celebrate" Anzac Day, in recognition of getting soundly owned by the Turks at Gallipoli in WW1. And we celebrate Australia Day (otherwise know as invasion day) which is the date of the arrival of the first european convict ships for settlement.

We don't have any proper festivals...  

[Erebus Haze]

In Haiti January First is the Independence Day becuase when the Haitians declared war, January First fell on a Sunday so it was both Holy and it ushered in a new year for them. A year of freedom. 3nodding  

[holy alma]

Erebus Haze

In Haiti January First is the Independence Day becuase when the Haitians declared war, January First fell on a Sunday so it was both Holy and it ushered in a new year for them. A year of freedom. 3nodding

as for as ghanains, sixth March is our independence day sixth March was the day we were sold into slavery, so our forefathers chose that day to mark our Independence. biggrin  

[xXDark_Vampire_LoverXx]

In Israel, we celebrate Channukkah. It's also known as the festival of lights. It marks the eight days the oil burned in the menorah, when it was only supposed to burn for one night.  

[Mei-chwan]

The Chinese have 2 major holidays, August Moon and Chinese New year which is celebrated in late January or early February due to the Lunar Calender. The US uses the Solar one. There is a legend about the Chinese New year about animals and how God chose them to be in a part of a banquet. The rat was the first animal who got there first, so the first year was dedicated to the rat. Next came the ox,tiger, hare, dragon, snake,horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and lastly the pig. (in some there the cat is mention, but he didn't make it because the rat tricked him into believing the banquet was a day later). These animals are basically what the Chinese use to represent the year. For example 2009 is the year of the Ox and next year is the year of the Tiger.  

[Arachnakid]

I am of generic Scandanavian descent (I have family in all those countries), so I have to deal with the annual eating of Lutefisk. Lutefisk is literally fish that has been soaked in lye, then boiled to make it edible. It's digusting, but for some reason all us Swedes and Norwegians and whatnot think we need to eat some at least once every December, if never again in the year. My great-grandma swore it was the sole reason she lived to be 94.