As we all know Halloween is happening tomorrow, I found it fun to speak about it and to catch an interesting relation between this event and sociology. Instead of explaining the history of this event, I would love to share with you this video that explains it very nicely:
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Halloween is mostly celebrated in the United States, but it landed somehow in this country: Doha, Qatar. Mostly thank to the globalization and with the large percentage of expatriates that lives in Qatar, Halloween is an event that took part of this culture. We can go in the malls and there are a lot of shops that sells costumes, decorations and all what goes with it. But not everyone celebrates Halloween, so we will call it mostly a subculture, because there are some groups those shares in some parts of the dominant culture but have their distinctive values, beliefs, languages or material culture.
I think that what made possible to celebrate Halloween in Qatar is Garangaa’o.
Garangaa’o is an event that happens mostly in the golf, the 15th day of Ramadan where the little boys and girl dress up with the traditional clothes and goes in the neighborhood to collect some sweets, but they are able to get some only if they sing a beautiful song dedicated only to this event. It have a really close connection between them, but the culture and the religion made some slight changes, that in my opinion makes the beauty of the society and the world.
