Well where I live most of the exposure to the rabbit is american. If the origin is not american it does not mean it’s not being proliferated by them. Same as santa claus. 20-30 years ago almost nobody here got gifts from Santa. It was either saint Nicholas on 6. December or father frost whenever he decided to come (no set date).
But now with just how prevalent american made media is it’s annoying how many of their customs are coming here and displacing local ones.
The bunny is primarily a German tradition. It became prevalent in the US because of the high volume German immigrants. However, the bunny was already spreading throughout the Hapsburg Monarchy prior to America exporting its version. Decorating eggs is also a Slovenian tradition that came to prominence when what would be become the US was still just colonies. Not a lot of pop culture getting shipped back to Europe back then.
The rabbit/hare as a fertility symbol is a pretty frequent one across a lot of cultures, kinda like solar deities with solstice holidays. The cult of Ishtar died out in the 600s, the first mention of a tradition of an egg laying hare in connection with the Christian holiday is specifically from Germany a thousand years later.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No. But I have never locally seen the easter hunny as traditional. It was imported by the americans
nomy@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
The Easter Bunny has been around since the 1500s but if it helps you to think that all of the evils in the world are American you’re free to do that.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well where I live most of the exposure to the rabbit is american. If the origin is not american it does not mean it’s not being proliferated by them. Same as santa claus. 20-30 years ago almost nobody here got gifts from Santa. It was either saint Nicholas on 6. December or father frost whenever he decided to come (no set date). But now with just how prevalent american made media is it’s annoying how many of their customs are coming here and displacing local ones.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
This reads like the hipster version of history. “It was fine until America started doing it.”
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 days ago
The bunny is primarily a German tradition. It became prevalent in the US because of the high volume German immigrants. However, the bunny was already spreading throughout the Hapsburg Monarchy prior to America exporting its version. Decorating eggs is also a Slovenian tradition that came to prominence when what would be become the US was still just colonies. Not a lot of pop culture getting shipped back to Europe back then.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Could have sworn it was from ishtar, who was from Babylon, but I’m no expert
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 days ago
The rabbit/hare as a fertility symbol is a pretty frequent one across a lot of cultures, kinda like solar deities with solstice holidays. The cult of Ishtar died out in the 600s, the first mention of a tradition of an egg laying hare in connection with the Christian holiday is specifically from Germany a thousand years later.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Lol. No.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You don’t onow where I am from.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I have a rough estimate. and if it’s correct, it’s certainly not imported from the US
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’re the wizard pope, you’re from wherever I get my weed gets my weed from.