# "Black Friday" internationally **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 23, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-internationally/641911 "2012-11-23T16:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-internationally/641911/21 "2012-11-24T23:21:50Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > It does have to do with the Mayflower, sort of - schoolchildren learn that the First Thanksgiving is when the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock and didn’t know how to fucking feed themselves so the nice Native Americans took pity on the n00bs and brought them dinner and they all ate together in peace and harmony This made me chuckle. Not exactly sure why. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-internationally/641911/22 "2012-11-25T00:34:41Z")
I don’t think we have a particular day like that in Korea. The worst I’ve seen is the day before Valentine’s Day, which in Korea is possibly bigger than Christmas. Koreans don’t really do Christmas the same way Westerners do. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-internationally/641911/23 "2012-11-25T00:40:34Z")
In Soviet Russia, every Friday was Black Friday because the power was always out. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-internationally/641911/24 "2012-11-26T12:30:49Z")
In Spain there have been many chains and supermarkets which have held pre-christmas sales this past weekend, in some cases going as far as to call them a “Black Friday sale” (the publicist and yours truly are among the few Spaniards who understand where they got the name, but it’s an international chain). But we do have two national holidays on December 6th (since 1978) and 8th (since about a century prior), and the resulting long-weekend or “bridge” is normally used to decorate the house and to go Christmas-shopping; Navarra has another holiday on December 3rd: the province empties, as people go shopping to nearby non-holidaying areas from Saragossa to Biarritz. ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-internationally/641911/25 "2012-11-26T18:01:07Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > There used to be a particular Saturday in December, I think maybe the 2nd one, that was the busiest shopping day of the year in Dublin. I think with out of town shopping centres everywhere now it’s no longer as big a thing. ohgodyeah, I forgot about the 8th of December! It’s a week long thing around here these days (we don’t go up to Dublin), you only get 10% off anything and a lot of people don’t bother with it. I haven’t gone out on the 8th for years… IIRC it was originally for farmers to do their Christmas shopping before the winter set in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-internationally/641911.md?page=1)