# Question for non-Americans: Mothers Day? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272 "2020-05-06T15:17:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/21 "2020-05-07T07:34:40Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > While that’s true, the OP is not a call to an interesting discussion. It’s a request for facts. > > An interesting discussion would be "Here in the US we have Mother’s Day in May. A quick google search show that other countries have it as well. How does the celebration go in your country, assuming you celebrate it of course. 🙂 " > > See? Invitation to share interesting facts or insights. By placing it in IMHO, rather than General Questions, I’d say he was implicitly asking for anecdotes and such. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/22 "2020-05-07T07:44:58Z")
In Spain Father’s Day is March 19th: Feast of St Joseph, often a national holiday, when it’s not national then some regions take it up, always _the_ holiday in Valencia (it’s when they celebrate Fallas). Mother’s Day is the first Sunday in May, this year it was May 3rd. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/23 "2020-05-07T08:38:15Z")
Taiwan follows convention on Mother’s Day but Father’s Day is August 8th, a pun on 8 / 8 (ba ba) and father (ba ba) although with different tones. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/24 "2020-05-07T12:15:11Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I love those occasional years when Fathers Day falls on my fathers birthday. Nice, then you only have to get one card! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/25 "2020-05-07T13:00:48Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Taiwan follows convention on Mother’s Day but Father’s Day is August 8th, a pun on 8 / 8 (ba ba) and father (ba ba) although with different tones. We just had Star Wars Day on May 4th (“may the fourth be with you”)\*\* but I didn’t know any actual official national holidays anywhere were based on puns. That’s awesome! \*\* to which I often reply, “And also with you.” Hey, I may be the lapsed of lapsed Catholics but I was TRAINED dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/26 "2020-05-07T15:10:16Z")
Here in Argentina is the third sunday of October, sometimes it falls on my mothers birthday and then we call it “Mother’s Birthday Day” to the eternal annoyance of my mum. Sometimes it falls on October 17 which is “Loyalty Day” for the Peronist party, I think we should call it “Loyalty to Mother’s day” I’ll suggest it next October, most of my family are Peronists so they may like it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/27 "2020-05-07T17:57:36Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > While that’s true, **the OP is not a call to an interesting discussion**. It’s a request for facts. > > An interesting discussion would be "Here in the US we have Mother’s Day in May. A quick google search show that other countries have it as well. How does the celebration go in your country, assuming you celebrate it of course. 🙂 " > > See? Invitation to share interesting facts or insights. Difference of opinion I guess. I had interpreted his question as inviting discussion on what other people’s countries do for Mother’s day if they have such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/28 "2020-05-07T17:59:09Z")
> [@Hermitian](#): > > Nice, then you only have to get one card! That one card has to be twice as expensive. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/29 "2020-05-07T18:42:52Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > While that’s true, the OP is not a call to an interesting discussion. It’s a request for facts. If it was purely a request for facts, he would have put it in General Questions. And even then, the post that was moderated would have been against the rules, since “Just Google it” is not an acceptable response even in GQ. Since the question was placed in IMHO, it was obviously an invitation to discussion. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/30 "2020-05-09T16:17:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Panama celebrates Father’s Day the third Sunday of June (June 21 this the year) like the US. However, it’s not a big deal. I’ve been a father for twenty-four years (and I actually _had_ one for fifty-nine). It’s not really that big a deal here, either. I doubt that the stores sell more than about two or three riding mowers over it. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/31 "2020-05-09T16:23:06Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > We just had Star Wars Day on May 4th (“may the fourth be with you”)\*\* but I didn’t know any actual official national holidays anywhere were based on puns. That’s awesome! > \*\* to which I often reply, “And also with you.” > Hey, I may be the lapsed of lapsed Catholics but I was TRAINED dammit. Try [“and with your spirit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63RcymipKuY) next time. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/32 "2020-05-10T17:49:12Z")
NASCAR always said they won’t race on mother’s day but they race on father’s day. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/33 "2020-05-11T07:47:54Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Try [“and with your spirit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63RcymipKuY) next time. Ha! I knew which clip that was gonna be before I clicked on it. “… they changed shit!!” ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272/34 "2020-05-12T00:01:46Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > UK, we have both, but our mothers day-dates are different. Yup, every damned year my English colleagues would scare the hell out of every one of us when they started talking about mother’s day activities. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-mothers-day/853272.md?page=1)