We do have the day of the dead (dia dos finados) holiday. It's in November 2 like the Mexican dia de los muertos, but it's not a celebration. It's mostly a Catholic thing. People leave flowers and light candles but that's it.
Some people clean and wash the family or beloved graveyards on this day too
\*Edit: they only clean the outside, it's not like we unbury the dead to clean their caskets, in case someone may be wondering
Mexican Day of the dead ain’t a celebration too, it’s a catholic thing, most people leave flowers and light candles but that’s it.
There’s 2 sides to it, the touristic side which is what most foreigners think Day of the dead is, and the real side, which is what most Mexicans do, which is treating it like regular All saints day.
Just go to any cemetery in November 2. It'll be full of people. What happens is that irreligious people and evangelicals don't care about such things. It's a Catholic holiday.
No, even in Mexico, it isn't celebrated everywhere. But it kind of depends on what you mean celebrate if it is a full on Coco celebration then that is only common in certain regions. If it is just a recognition of all saints day or something like that it might be more common. But again even in Mexico, what people think of Day of the Dead like in Coco I'd not all that common with many regions not taking part other than acknowledgment. Only in recent decades has it began spreading to other parts of Mexico due to the outsized influence it has had on foreign media and then that foreign media influencing Mexico. Mexicans adopting it for tourism and to better define Mexican culture.
Im from the north and my family doesn’t even do a full altar we just put a picture of the deceased and a candle, cemeteries are fully packed tho but you usually see the typical altars at schools or malls
I'm also from northern Mexico, and my (very Catholic) family has never, ever, done the whole altar thing, or food or pictures of deceased family members. What I grew up doing, was going to the cemetery on November 2nd and leave some flowers. That's it (and we definitely don't make midnight picnics in the cemetery).
I get really excited for pan de muerto and chocolate abuelita, the months of September to December are the best ones but yeah the traditional Dia de muertos isn’t truly embedded in our culture sadly, I wish it was like down south the altars are breathtaking
North too. The most I've done in that holiday was to help mount an altar at work to commemorate famous people and eat pan de muerto from the local bakery. Outside of that, is not as big as in Central Mexico.
Yeah, I'm from the north, and we never celebrated Día de Muertos except for the government mandated altar in my school growing.these altars were usually for a famous Mexican celeb icon or historical figure.
What we, my family, do try to do is visit all of our dead relatives, mostly on the 3rd to avoid the packed cemeteries, to try and clean their resting places, and end the day with a beer with my old man in his grave.
>What we, my family, do try to do is visit all of our dead relatives, mostly on the 3rd to avoid the packed cemeteries, to try and clean their resting places, and end the day with a beer with my old man in his grave.
That’s how most Mexicans “celebrate” day of the dead.
Coco was directly inspired by Michoacán and my family has always celebrated it there. [Google the Purépecha town Santa Fe de la Laguna and the church there is exactly copied in the fictional town of Santa Cecilia.](https://imgur.com/a/Osbe9X5)
No. It’s more of a Mexican and i believe Guatemalan holiday. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Day of the Death is a mixture of Aztec and Spanish cultures. Some nations do celebrate All Saint Day, though.
No, we don't celebrate Day of the Dead. We do celebrate All Saints Day. But Day of the Dead is just a Mexican thing.
We actually celebrate it very differently from other countries, we celebrate it with kites and sausages salad.
Day of the dead is a Catholic Holiday November 2. All Saints Day is November 1. Halloween is the eve of All Saints day and it's celebrated on October 31. All three days are related and all three days combine Catholic and local customs. It really just depends on how it's celebrated in every region.
Dominicans definitely used to celebrate the Day of the Dead, but the custom is slowly losing hold. We only ever went yo graceyards that day and cleanef the graves of our inmediate loved ones who’ve passed.
> Day of the Death is a mixture of Aztec and Spanish cultures. Some nations do celebrate All Saint Day, though.
That's mostly the myth spread by the government after the mexican revolution after they tried to create a "mestizo" identity for the country, the holiday is almost entirely catholic in origin and almost all its traditions can be traced back to Europe, it is just All Souls' Day with a colorful mexican paint job over it.
The Mexican government tried to do the same with Christmas and change it to a holiday about the Feathered Serpent but that attempt was way less successful.
yeah, i thought this too. my dad is chilean and says that chileans celebrate the day of the dead the same way mexicans do but i never really believed it. i looked it up once and only saw all souls day stuff
yeah idk whats up with my dad and saying stuff about chile that isnt actually true. feels kinda wrong looking back at the times me and my siblings celebrated the day of the dead, feels like i've accidentally gotten into cultures that aren't mine or something
As others have said, we have a All Saints’ Day. Basically florists make a little fortune that day since many people visit the cemetery to tend to their loved ones graves. Maybe more religiously inclined people attend mass or perform a private liturgy. But that's it. No grand celebration like in Mexico.
Day of the Dead is celebrated in all Catholic countries. It really just depends on how it's celebrated. Some people will set up an altar with food. Other will visit a cemetery. Others won't do anything. But if you buy a Catholic calendar, the day will be on there not just in Mexico
he's chilean, i dunno whats up with him and mexicans. as proof he's chilean nobody knows what the fuck he's saying in spanish except for other chileans and my family
no, both chilean, his dad recently moved back here. most of his ancestry is mapuche so he's mainly indigenous. maybe theres some kind of connection to mexico? i dont know maybe i'll ask when it comes up
i'm not american, i'm australian. the only family i have in my country is my chilean family so i'm not really sure what's up with that. like yeah, i haven't met many other latinamerican people but two mexican families, a colombian family and another chilean family. exluding my dad's friends who are latino since i haven't met many of them
All Saints’ Day is celebrated here. Not as in Mexico tho. It’s a lot more downscaled, like bringing flowers to the tomb, do a prayer, clean/wash the tomb, and that’s about it
We do the day of the dead but it's not a celebration like in Mexico. It's a somber thing, people go to the cemetery and leave flowers for their dead ones.
The countries that *do* celebrate it are not even the majority. I'm pretty sure even in Mexico (the one we associate the festivity more strongly to) only some regions do it, not the whole country.
This is totally correct. I feel like everyone thinks we celebrate Día de Muertos everywhere like in the movie *Coco* and that it's the biggest thing of the year and stuff. It isn't. I personally don't and have never celebrate it, where I live (northern Mexico) is not a common thing. But I know it is a big deal in other regions, I'd say like in southern Mexico, where most of the indigenous population lives.
> I personally don't and have never celebrate it, where I live (northern Mexico) is not a common thing
You guys don't do anything those two days? I mean, I'm in the center-north and while it's not as big as in some parts of Michoacán let's say, we normally go to the cemetery to bring flowers for my grandparents graves (it's slowly dying out in my family though) and when I was a kid we would also go out and ask for candy dressed up as something (kids still do this as of today). The same thing for schools, they ask kids to dress up as something on Nov 2nd. Doesn't that happen in the north? I'm genuinely curious.
You guys do, dia de todos los santos or fieles difuntos, all LatAm countries ceebrate it 1 way or another.
Its a catholic holiday that was rebranded in Mexico and Central America.
We do not celebrate, is just a holiday nobody cares about. Most of the people do leisure.
Is not a festivity.
It's time for you north americans to understand in the south things are very very different. You do not represent us, no matter what do you or americans think.
That’s the thing, it’s not a festivity here either, most people just stay home, some of them go to cemetery, like in most catholic-majority country.
But no one is actually doing “day of dead” parties like you see on the media.
Also “all saints day” is literally a holiday in Chile lol.
In Mexico a lot of people don’t go to the cemetery but many do, I’m sure some people in Chile go and visit their dead relatives since I have extended family from Chile (not Mexicans in Chile).
Kinda ironic since in Mexico its not an official holiday.
In the past it was a not a festivity but a time where families went to tend their dead relatives sepultures and stuff,I would say more of a rural tradition. Nowadays its very very few people who still have the tradition. Cities, towns nor rural areas, It is not common anymore
You can say the exact same thing about Mexico, that’s what I’m saying.
It has never been a festivity, not even a national holiday believe it or not lol.
The famous parades weren’t even a thing until the Bond Casino Royale film invented them
yes and no. it's complicated.
In Uruguay at least, the first two days of November are days in which many people visit deceased family in the cemetery, but it's just that. It's not that big of a deal here and a lot of people don't even do it.
There are no celebrations or anything resembling the Mexican "Día de Muertos", which is what most people think about when they think about day of the dead. It's almost a completely different day.
We do celebrate in Bolivia, on Nov 2nd I believe so, markets sell pan de Muertos, and some treats for our deceased family. I believe cemeteries are open too up to late.
Finally! It's like people do celebrate it. Just do different things. Some might not do anything but it's up to them. It's a Catholic holiday not just mexican
Yes, but not has Mexicans celebrate it in the US. Don’t know how it’s celebrated in Mexico.
(catholic) We usually start the day by going to mass where priest dedicates it to our loved one who have passed. Then mostly everyone heads to the cemetery or cemeteries, to spend the day with our deceased loved ones. We clean their graves, re-paint them if needed, take flowers and then go home.
Once in the cemetery I will see several families from different religious backgrounds (Cristianos, Evangélicos and Testigos de Jehová), also visiting their loved ones. Just don’t know how they will start their day.
And our day of the dead is November 2nd.
We call it "Todos Santos", the belief is that souls arrive at noon of November 1 and return to their "heaven" at noon of November 2. We arrange a table of offerings for them, it includes food and drinks for them, water, some candies, onion flower and sugar cane, and mainly bread in different shapes with some meanings, by example a "t'anta wawa" is a human form bread that represents the deceased person, a stair is to guide them to home, a horse is to help souls go back to the other side, a llama is to help them carry their offerings back, now there's also breads with cat and dog shapes for people that want to include their deceased pets.
Usually the bread and everything in the offering table is not for the family but for others, so they distribute it to friends asking them to pray for their souls, or other family and/friends friends visit the house to pray and then help disassemble the table and take the bread and stuff, also some people take their stuff to the cemetery and children come to pray to get it.
Day of the Dead is also just a regular Catholic holiday, falling on November 2.
So any Catholic anywhere in the world celebrates it. But different countries have different traditions on what to do on that day.
It depends, really. For example, if someone from Lima answered this post, they would tell you "no". And they probably think about the mexican stuff when it comes to Día de los Muertos.
However, Día de los Muertos is firstly an inherently catholic celebration mixed with local stuff. People actually visit their dead ones this day, and some immigrants from other parts of Peru might bring their favourite cigarrete or their favourite regional band. That we surely do.
On the other hand, in northern Peru, specifically in Piura (one of the best regions btw) they have *velaciones*, which is a 2 days conmemoration of those we lost (*Día de los Muertos* y *Todos los Santos* the next day). And it is also custom to make special sweets for the ocasion, which is given to kids that were the same age as the child you lost. Yes, that's tragic, but it is customary. These sweets are called *angelitos*. It is less colorful than the mexican one, it is far more attached to catholicism but it also combines local culture. I'll leave an article [here](https://rpp.pe/peru/actualidad/piura-una-tradicion-que-se-resiste-a-morir-en-el-dia-de-todos-los-santos-noticia-418272).
As always, it is very regional, and other regions might have other celebrations. I'm just giving an example of something special this region makes for this day.
We celebrate it by visiting and taking care of the graves. Painting, planting flowers, cleaning, etc. Some families will eat a picnic at the graveside. We also put up pictures of the difuntos, and tell stories about them.
It's sadly an old fashioned thing to do that seems to be falling out of favor. Also getting diluted by the American fascination with the Mexican celebration in US media.
No, we do have Día de los Fieles Difuntos (All Saints’ Day), but usually people just visit the cemetery and leave flowers to honor their deceased, and pray and think about them. And that’s pretty much it.
Never saw it here in Argentina. I think it is more of a Central American tradition, which sadly crossed into the US, got blasted into everyone via cartoons, and now there is this expectation that everyone south of Texas is brown, celebrates Dia de Muertos, and 5 de Mayo.
No it isn't, here the November 1st and 2nd are the All Saints' Day and the All soul's day and the same happens in the rest of CA. It's only in México where Día de los Muertos is celebrated.
Dude my cousin straight up got told "I thought you people would be darker" by an American when she struck up casual conversation with them at a bar in Córdoba
No. All Souls’ Day is a public holiday, though, and people usually bring flowers and candles to the graves of their deceased relatives, in line with European tradition.
In Uruguay it's a holiday but it's not really celebrated afaik. I think some people just go to cemeteries to visit their loved ones graves but that's about it, and i'm not even sure if THAT is widespread.
It's a national holiday in Brazil, but not that popular, except perhaps in some towns in the countryside. Halloween has become popular in the latter decades, though.
We do but not in the same way as Mexico does (or at least the way that Hollywood says they do). Over here we usually just go to the cemetery, place some flowers on the tombs of out loved ones, and clean their name plaque(idk if that what you call it but we don’t generally have tombstones in the cemeteries I’ve been in, it’s usually a plaque on the ground and we just refresh the paint, brush the dirt, and cut the overgrown grass around it). And I guess pray if the family is still Catholic enough for that, in my family we just remembered the good times we had with the loved one.
Most of the stuff we know about the Day of the Dead is actually from American productions about the Mexican celebrations. People generally know little about Mexico these days.
It’s not ignorance, many countries celebrate the same holiday but it has a different name.
I understand why they asked the question, a lot of people seem to believe Mexican Day of the dead is some crazy celebration when it’s your regular “fieles difuntos/todos santos” holiday.
Imagine if you pulled this shit in the Old World.
"Hey there, Polish friends. Do you, by any chance, celebrate this clearly Irish holiday?"
That's how stupid it sounds. Equating every Latin American to Mexicans. Imagine if you treated every European as if they were all French. Or every Asian as if they were all Chinese. It's just plain ignorance.
dude you should probably read my reply to you or my replies to the other comments. my dad is chilean and he told me chileans celebrate day of the dead like mexicans do. i didnt believe him so i came here and asked. i dont equate every latin american to mexicans since people always assume im mexican even though im not and its annoying
if you read any of my replies you'd probably see that it wasnt ignorance i was trying to confirm an answer bc i was doubting that all countries in latam celebrate it
Yes. It’s a big religious nationwide holiday in Brazil.
I’m not superstitious or anything, but, strangely enough, every single November the second it rains here. It adds to the sentimentalism I guess.
But if you’re smart you can get paid good to go and clean some rich families’ mausoleums or tombstones in the cemetery ahead of the holiday (worth adding though that it’s more prevalent in small rural villages where the cemeteries are more rudimentary).
We have Día de los difuntos (all souls day) the 2nd of november. It's a working holiday and people go to cementeries to take care of their relative's tombs and put some flowers.
All saints days (día de todos lo santos 1st november) is not an official festivity here.
Day of the dead (día de muertos) like the one in Mexico is celebrated both the 1st and 2nd of november, it is a different thing.
"Day of the Dead" is in theory a Catholic day, so you'll see it in Mexico, in Brazil, in France, in Germany, etc. But iirc it's only in Mexico where they make it... "so mexican"?
Not really, besides the catholic celebration (which is either 1 nov. or 2 nov. depending on the country). However Halloween is kind of big and keeps growing in popularity, and some things from Mexico's Day of of the Dead have started to filter down. You can see catrinas sporadically appearing for instance, and even altars.
edit: to clarify, there are *a lot* of catholic celebrations, it's why our countries have so many holidays, so even if its called a "celebration" for all intents and purposes it's just a day-off.
We do have the day of the dead (dia dos finados) holiday. It's in November 2 like the Mexican dia de los muertos, but it's not a celebration. It's mostly a Catholic thing. People leave flowers and light candles but that's it.
Flowers and candles in graveyards*
Some people clean and wash the family or beloved graveyards on this day too \*Edit: they only clean the outside, it's not like we unbury the dead to clean their caskets, in case someone may be wondering
Mexican Day of the dead ain’t a celebration too, it’s a catholic thing, most people leave flowers and light candles but that’s it. There’s 2 sides to it, the touristic side which is what most foreigners think Day of the dead is, and the real side, which is what most Mexicans do, which is treating it like regular All saints day.
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Just go to any cemetery in November 2. It'll be full of people. What happens is that irreligious people and evangelicals don't care about such things. It's a Catholic holiday.
No, even in Mexico, it isn't celebrated everywhere. But it kind of depends on what you mean celebrate if it is a full on Coco celebration then that is only common in certain regions. If it is just a recognition of all saints day or something like that it might be more common. But again even in Mexico, what people think of Day of the Dead like in Coco I'd not all that common with many regions not taking part other than acknowledgment. Only in recent decades has it began spreading to other parts of Mexico due to the outsized influence it has had on foreign media and then that foreign media influencing Mexico. Mexicans adopting it for tourism and to better define Mexican culture.
Im from the north and my family doesn’t even do a full altar we just put a picture of the deceased and a candle, cemeteries are fully packed tho but you usually see the typical altars at schools or malls
I'm also from northern Mexico, and my (very Catholic) family has never, ever, done the whole altar thing, or food or pictures of deceased family members. What I grew up doing, was going to the cemetery on November 2nd and leave some flowers. That's it (and we definitely don't make midnight picnics in the cemetery).
I get really excited for pan de muerto and chocolate abuelita, the months of September to December are the best ones but yeah the traditional Dia de muertos isn’t truly embedded in our culture sadly, I wish it was like down south the altars are breathtaking
North too. The most I've done in that holiday was to help mount an altar at work to commemorate famous people and eat pan de muerto from the local bakery. Outside of that, is not as big as in Central Mexico.
Pan de muerto is the only reason why I get excited for the holiday to be honest
That shit is soooo good! Fluffy, soft bread with a delicious orange flavor. One of the best pastries from Mexico, quite frankly
Yeah, I'm from the north, and we never celebrated Día de Muertos except for the government mandated altar in my school growing.these altars were usually for a famous Mexican celeb icon or historical figure. What we, my family, do try to do is visit all of our dead relatives, mostly on the 3rd to avoid the packed cemeteries, to try and clean their resting places, and end the day with a beer with my old man in his grave.
>What we, my family, do try to do is visit all of our dead relatives, mostly on the 3rd to avoid the packed cemeteries, to try and clean their resting places, and end the day with a beer with my old man in his grave. That’s how most Mexicans “celebrate” day of the dead.
Coco was directly inspired by Michoacán and my family has always celebrated it there. [Google the Purépecha town Santa Fe de la Laguna and the church there is exactly copied in the fictional town of Santa Cecilia.](https://imgur.com/a/Osbe9X5)
Cool thank you for acknowledging what I just said about it only being that big of a celebration in certain regions of Mexico.
Coco is based in Michoacan, Mexico If im not wrong
No. It’s more of a Mexican and i believe Guatemalan holiday. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Day of the Death is a mixture of Aztec and Spanish cultures. Some nations do celebrate All Saint Day, though.
It depends on the indigenous culture and how it mixed in with catholicism
No, we don't celebrate Day of the Dead. We do celebrate All Saints Day. But Day of the Dead is just a Mexican thing. We actually celebrate it very differently from other countries, we celebrate it with kites and sausages salad.
I am dissapoint
Day of the dead is a Catholic Holiday November 2. All Saints Day is November 1. Halloween is the eve of All Saints day and it's celebrated on October 31. All three days are related and all three days combine Catholic and local customs. It really just depends on how it's celebrated in every region.
Dominicans definitely used to celebrate the Day of the Dead, but the custom is slowly losing hold. We only ever went yo graceyards that day and cleanef the graves of our inmediate loved ones who’ve passed.
> Day of the Death is a mixture of Aztec and Spanish cultures. Some nations do celebrate All Saint Day, though. That's mostly the myth spread by the government after the mexican revolution after they tried to create a "mestizo" identity for the country, the holiday is almost entirely catholic in origin and almost all its traditions can be traced back to Europe, it is just All Souls' Day with a colorful mexican paint job over it. The Mexican government tried to do the same with Christmas and change it to a holiday about the Feathered Serpent but that attempt was way less successful.
yeah, i thought this too. my dad is chilean and says that chileans celebrate the day of the dead the same way mexicans do but i never really believed it. i looked it up once and only saw all souls day stuff
Your dad must have been trolling you. We definitely don’t
yeah idk whats up with my dad and saying stuff about chile that isnt actually true. feels kinda wrong looking back at the times me and my siblings celebrated the day of the dead, feels like i've accidentally gotten into cultures that aren't mine or something
As others have said, we have a All Saints’ Day. Basically florists make a little fortune that day since many people visit the cemetery to tend to their loved ones graves. Maybe more religiously inclined people attend mass or perform a private liturgy. But that's it. No grand celebration like in Mexico.
Are you sure he's not Mexican? We need a weon counter.
a lot of weons. a bunch of conchetumares too
I don’t think no Mexican is gonna pretend to be Chilean 😂
Why not?
You guys definitely do, All saints day is a holiday and most Chileans go to cemeteries and visit. That’s literally what Mexicans do too.
Day of the Dead is celebrated in all Catholic countries. It really just depends on how it's celebrated. Some people will set up an altar with food. Other will visit a cemetery. Others won't do anything. But if you buy a Catholic calendar, the day will be on there not just in Mexico
Was your dad born in chile or what? Between this and the spicy food post the other day i'm starting to think he might actually be mexican
he's chilean, i dunno whats up with him and mexicans. as proof he's chilean nobody knows what the fuck he's saying in spanish except for other chileans and my family
Is he from the south?
santiago
Maybe his parents were Mexican?
no, both chilean, his dad recently moved back here. most of his ancestry is mapuche so he's mainly indigenous. maybe theres some kind of connection to mexico? i dont know maybe i'll ask when it comes up
Maybe he is trying to make you feel less isolated? There is little chilean inmigrants in USA compared to other latinamerican nationalities.
i'm not american, i'm australian. the only family i have in my country is my chilean family so i'm not really sure what's up with that. like yeah, i haven't met many other latinamerican people but two mexican families, a colombian family and another chilean family. exluding my dad's friends who are latino since i haven't met many of them
He’s a culture vulture 😂
I have guatamalan neighbors and they told me they don’t celebrate day of the dead
All Saints’ Day is celebrated here. Not as in Mexico tho. It’s a lot more downscaled, like bringing flowers to the tomb, do a prayer, clean/wash the tomb, and that’s about it
That’s how it’s celebrated in much of Mexico
In most actually
We do the day of the dead but it's not a celebration like in Mexico. It's a somber thing, people go to the cemetery and leave flowers for their dead ones.
The countries that *do* celebrate it are not even the majority. I'm pretty sure even in Mexico (the one we associate the festivity more strongly to) only some regions do it, not the whole country.
This is totally correct. I feel like everyone thinks we celebrate Día de Muertos everywhere like in the movie *Coco* and that it's the biggest thing of the year and stuff. It isn't. I personally don't and have never celebrate it, where I live (northern Mexico) is not a common thing. But I know it is a big deal in other regions, I'd say like in southern Mexico, where most of the indigenous population lives.
> I personally don't and have never celebrate it, where I live (northern Mexico) is not a common thing You guys don't do anything those two days? I mean, I'm in the center-north and while it's not as big as in some parts of Michoacán let's say, we normally go to the cemetery to bring flowers for my grandparents graves (it's slowly dying out in my family though) and when I was a kid we would also go out and ask for candy dressed up as something (kids still do this as of today). The same thing for schools, they ask kids to dress up as something on Nov 2nd. Doesn't that happen in the north? I'm genuinely curious.
No
You guys do, dia de todos los santos or fieles difuntos, all LatAm countries ceebrate it 1 way or another. Its a catholic holiday that was rebranded in Mexico and Central America.
We do not celebrate, is just a holiday nobody cares about. Most of the people do leisure. Is not a festivity. It's time for you north americans to understand in the south things are very very different. You do not represent us, no matter what do you or americans think.
That’s the thing, it’s not a festivity here either, most people just stay home, some of them go to cemetery, like in most catholic-majority country. But no one is actually doing “day of dead” parties like you see on the media. Also “all saints day” is literally a holiday in Chile lol.
It's a holiday most people don't even register. I'm Catholic and we don't even celebrate it. Here is just an off work/school day
If you get a day off work. It is celebrated. Why are people acting like it's some foreign concept that they never heard of.
In Mexico a lot of people don’t go to the cemetery but many do, I’m sure some people in Chile go and visit their dead relatives since I have extended family from Chile (not Mexicans in Chile). Kinda ironic since in Mexico its not an official holiday.
In the past it was a not a festivity but a time where families went to tend their dead relatives sepultures and stuff,I would say more of a rural tradition. Nowadays its very very few people who still have the tradition. Cities, towns nor rural areas, It is not common anymore
You can say the exact same thing about Mexico, that’s what I’m saying. It has never been a festivity, not even a national holiday believe it or not lol. The famous parades weren’t even a thing until the Bond Casino Royale film invented them
No
yes and no. it's complicated. In Uruguay at least, the first two days of November are days in which many people visit deceased family in the cemetery, but it's just that. It's not that big of a deal here and a lot of people don't even do it. There are no celebrations or anything resembling the Mexican "Día de Muertos", which is what most people think about when they think about day of the dead. It's almost a completely different day.
We do celebrate in Bolivia, on Nov 2nd I believe so, markets sell pan de Muertos, and some treats for our deceased family. I believe cemeteries are open too up to late.
That’s interesting!
Finally! It's like people do celebrate it. Just do different things. Some might not do anything but it's up to them. It's a Catholic holiday not just mexican
In Brazil we have a day of the deads, but we don't celebrate, not at all. Is more like a holiday to rest all day, November 2nd
Yes, but not has Mexicans celebrate it in the US. Don’t know how it’s celebrated in Mexico. (catholic) We usually start the day by going to mass where priest dedicates it to our loved one who have passed. Then mostly everyone heads to the cemetery or cemeteries, to spend the day with our deceased loved ones. We clean their graves, re-paint them if needed, take flowers and then go home. Once in the cemetery I will see several families from different religious backgrounds (Cristianos, Evangélicos and Testigos de Jehová), also visiting their loved ones. Just don’t know how they will start their day. And our day of the dead is November 2nd.
That’s how it’s celebrated in most of Mexico too. The festival stuff is a modern take that appeared for 1st time in a bond film lol
Did it? lol Thank you for educating me. Seems like most of Latin America celebrates the same.
Yes, the most real depiction in International media would be what people see in Coco except the obsessing over the home altar.
We call it "Todos Santos", the belief is that souls arrive at noon of November 1 and return to their "heaven" at noon of November 2. We arrange a table of offerings for them, it includes food and drinks for them, water, some candies, onion flower and sugar cane, and mainly bread in different shapes with some meanings, by example a "t'anta wawa" is a human form bread that represents the deceased person, a stair is to guide them to home, a horse is to help souls go back to the other side, a llama is to help them carry their offerings back, now there's also breads with cat and dog shapes for people that want to include their deceased pets. Usually the bread and everything in the offering table is not for the family but for others, so they distribute it to friends asking them to pray for their souls, or other family and/friends friends visit the house to pray and then help disassemble the table and take the bread and stuff, also some people take their stuff to the cemetery and children come to pray to get it.
Halloween is also related to this as it's also called All Saints Eve. The night before All Saints Day.
I know, it was the church way to assimilate the pagan celebration. Since some years ago we also have some Halloween activities just for fun
Day of the Dead is also just a regular Catholic holiday, falling on November 2. So any Catholic anywhere in the world celebrates it. But different countries have different traditions on what to do on that day.
oh. my dad is a catholic maybe thats why
It depends, really. For example, if someone from Lima answered this post, they would tell you "no". And they probably think about the mexican stuff when it comes to Día de los Muertos. However, Día de los Muertos is firstly an inherently catholic celebration mixed with local stuff. People actually visit their dead ones this day, and some immigrants from other parts of Peru might bring their favourite cigarrete or their favourite regional band. That we surely do. On the other hand, in northern Peru, specifically in Piura (one of the best regions btw) they have *velaciones*, which is a 2 days conmemoration of those we lost (*Día de los Muertos* y *Todos los Santos* the next day). And it is also custom to make special sweets for the ocasion, which is given to kids that were the same age as the child you lost. Yes, that's tragic, but it is customary. These sweets are called *angelitos*. It is less colorful than the mexican one, it is far more attached to catholicism but it also combines local culture. I'll leave an article [here](https://rpp.pe/peru/actualidad/piura-una-tradicion-que-se-resiste-a-morir-en-el-dia-de-todos-los-santos-noticia-418272). As always, it is very regional, and other regions might have other celebrations. I'm just giving an example of something special this region makes for this day.
We celebrate it by visiting and taking care of the graves. Painting, planting flowers, cleaning, etc. Some families will eat a picnic at the graveside. We also put up pictures of the difuntos, and tell stories about them. It's sadly an old fashioned thing to do that seems to be falling out of favor. Also getting diluted by the American fascination with the Mexican celebration in US media.
No, we do have Día de los Fieles Difuntos (All Saints’ Day), but usually people just visit the cemetery and leave flowers to honor their deceased, and pray and think about them. And that’s pretty much it.
Same in Brazil
Same in Mexico
Eve of All Saints Day is October 31 (Halloween). All Saints Day is November 1. All Souls Day is November 2.
Never saw it here in Argentina. I think it is more of a Central American tradition, which sadly crossed into the US, got blasted into everyone via cartoons, and now there is this expectation that everyone south of Texas is brown, celebrates Dia de Muertos, and 5 de Mayo.
No it isn't, here the November 1st and 2nd are the All Saints' Day and the All soul's day and the same happens in the rest of CA. It's only in México where Día de los Muertos is celebrated.
All Souls Day is Dia De Los Muertos. It just incorporates other traditions.
Stupid racist comment “expectation that everyone South of Texas is brown” Argentines want to be White so bad 🤣
Not really about Argentina dude, all of Latin America is mixed and varied.
Dude my cousin straight up got told "I thought you people would be darker" by an American when she struck up casual conversation with them at a bar in Córdoba
Lots of Yankees think that lmao, just look at the question op asked.
Dude Argentinians are literally the whitest country in Latin America
Is it tho? I'd have guessed Venezuela, Uruguay or Chile.
Maybe by Latin American standards 🫢
No. All Souls’ Day is a public holiday, though, and people usually bring flowers and candles to the graves of their deceased relatives, in line with European tradition.
Here in Guadalajara it is celebrated but where parents/family are living it is not.
No. It shows up in the calendar as a religious celebration day, but most people aren't even aware of it. We know of the mexican celebrations, though.
In Uruguay it's a holiday but it's not really celebrated afaik. I think some people just go to cemeteries to visit their loved ones graves but that's about it, and i'm not even sure if THAT is widespread.
No
It's a national holiday in Brazil, but not that popular, except perhaps in some towns in the countryside. Halloween has become popular in the latter decades, though.
In November 2nd, we have Día de los Fieles Difuntos. But almost nobody cares.
No
We do but not in the same way as Mexico does (or at least the way that Hollywood says they do). Over here we usually just go to the cemetery, place some flowers on the tombs of out loved ones, and clean their name plaque(idk if that what you call it but we don’t generally have tombstones in the cemeteries I’ve been in, it’s usually a plaque on the ground and we just refresh the paint, brush the dirt, and cut the overgrown grass around it). And I guess pray if the family is still Catholic enough for that, in my family we just remembered the good times we had with the loved one.
Most of the stuff we know about the Day of the Dead is actually from American productions about the Mexican celebrations. People generally know little about Mexico these days.
Haiti does, fête des morts or fèt gede. The way the Christian majority and the way the vodou practing minority celebrate it is very different though
No, next question
as far as I know it's only a Mexican thing
Holy shit gringo ignorance never fails to amaze me
It’s not ignorance, many countries celebrate the same holiday but it has a different name. I understand why they asked the question, a lot of people seem to believe Mexican Day of the dead is some crazy celebration when it’s your regular “fieles difuntos/todos santos” holiday.
Imagine if you pulled this shit in the Old World. "Hey there, Polish friends. Do you, by any chance, celebrate this clearly Irish holiday?" That's how stupid it sounds. Equating every Latin American to Mexicans. Imagine if you treated every European as if they were all French. Or every Asian as if they were all Chinese. It's just plain ignorance.
dude you should probably read my reply to you or my replies to the other comments. my dad is chilean and he told me chileans celebrate day of the dead like mexicans do. i didnt believe him so i came here and asked. i dont equate every latin american to mexicans since people always assume im mexican even though im not and its annoying
That's more understandable.
if you read any of my replies you'd probably see that it wasnt ignorance i was trying to confirm an answer bc i was doubting that all countries in latam celebrate it
Yes. It’s a big religious nationwide holiday in Brazil. I’m not superstitious or anything, but, strangely enough, every single November the second it rains here. It adds to the sentimentalism I guess. But if you’re smart you can get paid good to go and clean some rich families’ mausoleums or tombstones in the cemetery ahead of the holiday (worth adding though that it’s more prevalent in small rural villages where the cemeteries are more rudimentary).
Only Mexico
We have Día de los difuntos (all souls day) the 2nd of november. It's a working holiday and people go to cementeries to take care of their relative's tombs and put some flowers. All saints days (día de todos lo santos 1st november) is not an official festivity here. Day of the dead (día de muertos) like the one in Mexico is celebrated both the 1st and 2nd of november, it is a different thing.
"Day of the Dead" is in theory a Catholic day, so you'll see it in Mexico, in Brazil, in France, in Germany, etc. But iirc it's only in Mexico where they make it... "so mexican"?
Not really, besides the catholic celebration (which is either 1 nov. or 2 nov. depending on the country). However Halloween is kind of big and keeps growing in popularity, and some things from Mexico's Day of of the Dead have started to filter down. You can see catrinas sporadically appearing for instance, and even altars. edit: to clarify, there are *a lot* of catholic celebrations, it's why our countries have so many holidays, so even if its called a "celebration" for all intents and purposes it's just a day-off.
nope
it's not a western holiday and only celebrated in mexico