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No, not dia de los muertos...but Halloween. How popular is it with Mexicans, in your experience? What are some of the "traditions"?
If my Facebook feed is any indication, it's very popular with the younger crowd. Interestingly, they neglect to mention anything of the traditional holiday of Dia de los muertos. What's strange is that some things are lost in translation...one club is holding a Halloween party on November 24th! Otherwise it seems celebrated pretty much the same as the U.S. these days. One girl mentioned trick-or-treaters coming to her house, another dressed up like a zombie.
These are the kinds of things you don't hear in high school Spanish class, unless Mexico was radically different in 2002-2004.
There were some trick or treaters last night. Apparently some people don't even know the difference between the two, or mix them up in overlap- and that's not me just saying that, that's native Mexicans telling me that (and they aren't so happy with that fact).
I would expect that the border towns would have Halloween, Juarez does but along the border, I think most celebrate it on the USA side, they bring their kids to trick-or-treat over here and have been doing so for decades, but apparently it's catching on over there too.
Although their origins are very different, the two holidays tend to overlap each other quite a bit because of their similarities. I actually just had a Halloween party where everyone dressed up, but at the same time, we had a big ofrenda for Day of the Dead too.
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