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Iranian companies are now advertising Black Friday sales. Even though in Iran we do not celebrate Thanksgiving, we do not celebrate Christmas (except for Christ
by smnrchrds 5y ago
Iranian companies are now advertising Black Friday sales. Even though in Iran we do not celebrate Thanksgiving, we do not celebrate Christmas (except for Christians of course), and even our new year starts at spring equinox in late March. Black Friday is literally a random day in fall which has no significance. Yet there are Black Friday sales now.
- xwolfi 5y agoIt s like Halloween in France, it's so weird how tv shows made people with a strong identity adopt a foreign culture.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoSame in Germany. Though I like that I can have [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachener_Printen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachener_Printen & [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculaas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculaas long before Christmas. It's so weird seeing the sortiment in supermarkets change to all sorts of foreign events. Not that I'd care much for the native ones, either. Basically it's all just BUY! BUY! BUY! like in They Live from 1988.
- tannhaeuser 5y agoWhat's the threat? We all sell out every day. Might as well be on the winning team.
- rp1 5y agoThis is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
- d3nj4l 5y agoIndia is thankfully untouched because Black Friday falls after the biggest Hindu festival of the year - Diwali. Most people are already shopped out by that point. Also the reason why our big sales are in October.
- selimthegrim 5y agoI mean I thought Black Friday was when Shah killed people in Jaleh Square? I guess you had to be there.
- smnrchrds 5y agoYou are not wrong. But almost everyone is calling this shopping event "Black Friday" (as in the English name, not translated to Persian) which does not sound anything like "Jom'e-ye Siah" (the proper translation, also used to refer to the historical even you mentioned).