"Open House"

This is a wonderful idea. I must check your profile to see which country you live in. To share with all cultures & religions, is such a good thing for society. Australia has a lot of cultures, but we really don't have an open house policxy when celebrating. Some cultures do have festivals to which anyone is invited. I don't think we are as multi racial or tolerant as your country. We should learn from this.

we dont have that here but it sounds like lots of fun. The only open house we have is to sell our house and people would come in and look at the house.

We have open houses for graduation parties but for the most part nothing like you are talking - this sounds like great fun and wish we did things like that here. When I lived in Texas a lot of the oil businesses would do this around the holidays and it was terrific - we seldom ate at home because we would get a list of the open houses and just go to different ones each night. Of course would feed the kids and babysitter.

here in the USA if we did they wouldx steal everything you had!

we dont celebrate this in our country but somewhat the same in our Fiesta celebration. During fiesta we prepared foods and drinks for visitors,but mostly it is only a one to 2 days celebration.

We don't have that here and I can't say I would want a bunch of strangers coming in and out of my home. I like our traditional holidays where you get together with family and friends.

This is a wonderful concept and no we don’t have something similar in our country or culture. But we do have community feasts during festivals where an entire neighbourhood chips in with the amount and hired cooks rustle up something delicious for everyone. Its great fun but people from other communities or religion are not invited. Anyway it’s a great way to combat the inherent insularity of our present society and to mix with the neighbourhood. As it is we are so stressed out most of the time with our personal lives, we rarely find time to visit the neighbours. And this also means that you have good neighbours all of whom reciprocate each others feelings of openness.

What a unique culture to promote botherhood!!!I live in a cosmo politan country where one or the other festivals will be conducted almost every day. Here the people are very kind hearted and they will share their food and drinks with one and all on festivals. On christmas I place the christmas recipes, ballons hats etc...on a big cane basket, near the crib for the visitors to pick them up.

I have never heard of this custom zandi but it does sound very good! Can anyone come - or just people you know? xxx

I've never heard of this, but I find it fascinating. I think here in general, people are more accepting of each other around Christmas time. Too bad they can't stay that way all year 'round.

I haven't heard about an open house in my country. That sound great. An open-air's good for society. I'll try when I can. to Zandi458: I like your topics so much, I don't know why yours're so good like that. I'll try. By the way, few days ago, I see your post reach 902, but today I see zandi458(901). Can you delete your post?