How Long Before Something Becomes A Tradition

Rothko

I just seen some posts in AH tonight arguing about whether trick or treating is a tradition or not.

It just got me thinking, when exactly does something become a tradition. So, when do you think an event becomes a tradition?

Aenaes

Hank why do you drink so much, why do you smoke so much...

keith16

It's not just how long something is done for, it's how widespread and cultural it becomes.

Having said that, give it 3 months or fiddy.

Markcheese

Tannora .... A tangerine flavoured tradition..
While we didn't call it trick or treating we went out collecting (or something) when I was 4 or 5. so 35 years ago ...eeek
And I'm sure going round houses at Halloween has been done for hundreds or at least over a hundred years...

Praetorian Saighdiuir

3 identical posts I would say.

im invisible

2 years, just look at Arthur's day

mathepac

Suas11 wrote: »

... whether trick or treating is a tradition or not. ...

In america and with brainwashed Irish TV-educated children.

Suas11 wrote: »

.... So, when do you think an event becomes a tradition?

In america, after 3 weeks, in Ireland (other than with the brainwashed children and feeble minded dopers) after about 2,000 years

Poxyshamrock

If something happens one year, then it happens the next year, by the time the third year comes around it could be classed as a tradition in my books.

A_Sober_Paddy

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

If something happens one year, then it happens the next year, by the time the third year comes around it could be classed as a tradition in my books.

Sounds like a serial killers justification :P

opinion guy

You should write to Diageo and ask them

Zebra3

Suas11 wrote: »

I just seen some posts in AH tonight arguing about whether trick or treating is a tradition or not.

It is a tradition.





In the US.

Pherekydes

If you've done something and liked it and want to do it again, then just once.

If the wife says so: "We're going to my mother this Christmas. It's a tradition."

If the media promotes it as such (see the example above re: Arthur's day).

B.A._Baracus

im invisible wrote: »

2 years, just look at Arthur's day

A vaild point :pac:
Guess when you've got a few million to spend on an ad-campaign it speeds things up.

coonecb1

look at how quickly rugby got so popular when irish teams started winning matches.

look at arthur's day.

irish ppl are great for tradition as long as it has an international dimension and involves a bit of fun.

but if it's an indigenous tradition we want to kill it stone dead. go figure that one out

nice_very

it always makes me laugh when I see posters, the paper kind, proudly advertising First Annual......