Father's Day Weekend

My written this time is about this special weekend and with combination of what, where, why, when, who and how. My purpose is to get an indsigt in American culture .

This weekend is Father's Day weekend. I want to understand the reason behind it. Why is in June?
June 20, 2010--Father's Day, as other year the day always falls on 3rd Sunday of June every year. Annually honors committed human dads.

What is the purpose of this day? How to celebrate it?
Father's Day is a day honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. This is a modern tradition. I believe which start from America. This observation is not a public holiday. Typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities.

When is started and Who.
To find an answer we need to look at the History of Father's Day.
This modern Father's Day was invented by Sonora Smart Dodd, who born in Creston . It''s a town in Spokane Washington. Sonora Smart Dodd was also the driving force behind its establishment.
She was inspired by Anna Jarvis's efforts to establish Mother's Day. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, but her suggestion did not make enough time to the organizers to did the celebration arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.
Her idea took years to be official recognized event in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge ,who was the 30th President of the United States, from 1923-1929.He recommended it as a national holiday. In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson , who the American often referred to as LBJ, served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. LBJ made Father's Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. But the holiday was not officially recognized until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon. President Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, from 1969-1974

Why is spelling "Father's Day" not "Fathers' Day"
Under normal English punctuation the name of the event is understood as a plural possessive (i.e. "day belonging to fathers"). It is the guidelines shall be spelled "Fathers' Day". But the most common spelling is "Father's Day", as if it were a singular possessive (i.e. "day belonging to Father"). Because Dodd have used the "Fathers' Day" spelling on her original petition for the holiday, and the spelling "Father's Day" have been already in use in 1913 when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress as the first attempt to establish the holiday and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended

Where in the World also Celebrate Father's day

Globalization impacts tradition. US have a big influences in globalization process reason why many US modern tradition is adopted by other countries too. Father’s Day is one of the celebration day also participate other country. Dates around the world is same but it also varies from country to country. It depends on religion believe, country's history, and revolution.

Some examples of variation day
China
This tradition I will base on Taiwan because Taiwan official languages is Chinese Mandarin. In Taiwan Father's Day is not an official holiday, but is widely observed on August 8.
Reason the eighth day of the eighth month of the year, because In Chinese, it ‘s the official Chinese languages , the pronunciation of the number 8 is bā. This pronunciation is very similar to the character "爸" "bà", which means "Papa" or "father". Therefore Taiwanese usually call August 8 by its nickname, "Bābā Day" (爸爸節).

Denmark
In comparasion to other in Scandinavian Father's day is in November, but Denmark differ from neighbours is official Holiday.

In Denmark Father's Day is 5th of June. It is Danish Constitution Day, the closest day is able to get a Danish national day, which may have contributed to the few families in this country are aware of today's special significance for fathers.