Light up the sky: Halloween bonfires and cultural hegemony in Northern Ireland

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Halloween in Northern Ireland provides a nonsectarian time for celebrating and fire-based celebrations are a traditional part of life there. The festival could be another time of conflict, there are, for example, the connections with the more politcally-oriented Guy Fawkes Night. Halloween has symbolism which could be interpreted divisively and sometimes is, but it is emphasized that this is not the only valid way to read these symbols. Halloween is frequently called the Irish Christmas, a happy and peaceful festival.

Northern Ireland, Folk festivals, Fairs and festivals, Halloween

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Political realities and cultural specificities in contemporary Macedonian jokes

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Macedonians comment on changing political reality by altering jokes about themselves and other former Yugoslavs to fit the changing times. Macedonians always saw themselves as much warmer than Western Europeans. Since the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Bosnians in Macedonian jokes inhabit a world of minefields and sniping. Their cities are besieged. Serbs take on the qualities of the one-time Eastern European totalitarian governments. The Macedonians in their humor now often equate themselves with stateless gypsies.

Portrayals, Macedonia, Ethnic folklore

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Heil Hitler - God Save the King: jokes and the Norwegian Resistance 1940-1945

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The theme of quick-witted, disrespectful response to authority predominates in Norwegian anti-German jokes from the Nazi occupation during World War II. These jokes drew on a Scandinavian tradition of stoicism in confronting adversity and helped to create a resistance mentality. The jokes were effective mostly because they articulated principles, encouraged solidarity and raised morale.

Social aspects, Humor and anecdotes, Norway, World War II, 1939-1945, 1940s (Decade) AD, Wit and humor, Humor, Anti-Nazi movement, Anti-Nazi movements

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