• Kusimulkku
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    3 months ago

    Me neither, but it’s just a culturally significant thing in Finland so you’ll see it in calendars, you realize it from getting a holiday from work/school, it’s mentioned casually in media a lot (traffic news, weather talking about “Easter weekend’s” weather) and so on. I would’ve imagined it was prominent enough in the US that it’d be hard not to notice.

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      3 months ago

      I live in one of the more secular cities so it doesn’t really get talked about so much in daily life. I am thankful for it.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t think Finland is very religious, it’s more cultural I’d say.

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      3 months ago

      Right? Even here in Czechia, which is like in the TOP 3 most atheistic countries in the world, everyone knows it’s Easter. And no one has a problem with it (nor with Christmas), everyone accepts is as part of cultural heritage. Some people in this thread have such a weird take.

      • Kusimulkku
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        3 months ago

        Americans can be weird sometimes, especially on Lemmy. Just go with it, I’ll say