Holidays

[KATE]

Do any of you have an idea if Panem still celebrates the season like we do, or has their Victory Tour maybe taken place of this season. What about the districts themselves? Maybe they have theeir own holidays, anythoughts?

[Aanaleigh]

I've always thought that they wouldn't celebrate the season like we do.
I believe that the Victory Tour pretty much took the place of the season.
I imagine each District would have some sort of holiday. Especially the 'career' Districts. Lesser districts, I don't think would have more then one of two a year.

[KATE]

Yeah see I always thought the higher districts would stick to the capitoll ideas and really go all out on the victory tour but I think the lesser ones would hold to their own, kinda like the wedding ceremonies and D4s net or D12s toasting. So I kinda see D7 with a christmas tree for sure maybe a some others with stockings being stuffed with little treats

[booksandmusic97]

I've wondered that, too. :/

[KATE]

Notice the signature, haha

But the upper districts probably have the 'santa' legend still, D10 probably has a St. Nick being pulled around in a sleigh by oxen or something

[Amata]

I would think that the Capitol would try to suppress holidays like Christmas, or at least the religion part of it, but I'd hope that Christmas would be strong enough to survive in some form in the districts.

[KATE]

I'm thinking the capitol would probably hold strongly to the commercial part of it but probably completely shun religion as a whole

[Subject Matter]

That's another great thought. Would religion be allowed?

Anyway, I don't see why they'd keep them. It's just another way to punish the people.

[KATE]

I think keeping holidays in their commercial sense would help emphasize the difference
between the capitol against the districts. Particularly if they are televised, I can see their holiday specials being of who throws the best party.

The religion part of thing I thikn would be removed because that would be saying something is greater than themselves (the capitol) That and a large portion of their lives would be considered blatanly wrong in the eyes of a church (speaking from my own knowledge of religion) like gluttony, murder, etc.

[Amata]

Though it would be just like the Capitol to twist religion so that it serves their purposes... maybe they'd use religion to keep the Capitol people in line (kinda like the way they would use commercialization), to pull the wool over the people's eyes about the immorality of what's going on.

[Hannah]

I'm thinking the capitol would probably hold strongly to the commercial part of it but probably completely shun religion as a whole

That's pretty much what I've figured, because just look at how many wars have been fought over religion. Capitol wouldn't want anything like that. So if holidays are still around in Panem, it wouldn't be religious--maybe even known under a different name, for a holiday like Christmas...

But I think that the Capitol (and maybe little district stores, too) would see holidays like companies do today--another way to make money. And, a way to keep the Capitol citizens happy and non-rebellious.

[KATE]

I could see the capitol just saying the commercialization is the religion in general.

[Hannah]

Possibly, although that doesn't really qualify as "religion" so much as culture, I think.

[KATE]

i don't know they could put a spin on it and say the making purchases is a charitable act that helps support others through business.

I mean this is a world where people can look like tigers and sell fur and be called normal

[Hannah]

Maybe, maybe. Although in the districts, "charity" doesn't seem to be that big of a thing...