Why is Graduation super-sized in America? | Robyn Curnow
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We're in the middle of graduation season. Americans love a party, a theme and an excuse to put signs in their front yards announcing the celebration of the moment. Sometimes it's an election, other times it's July 4th and for these few weeks of spring.... it's graduation.
There is a constant rotation of goodbye parties. Graduation is not just a ceremony, it's a never-ending marathon of emotional and expensive moments.
Nowhere else in the world goes so BIG when school is finished. I'm embracing it because my eldest daughter deserves to be celebrated with trumpets, bagpipes and an endless supply of monogramed college cakes.
She started school in the USA in Obama's America and is now ending it in Trump's America. She has navigated a revolving set of strange cultural oddities and constant change.
Americans might not agree on everything but they do agree on these things:
- Supersized graduation celebrations
- Yard signs
- The long goodbye for your 18 year old
Hope you enjoy, and congratulations to the Class of 2025!
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