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Petition to move Halloween

美发起万圣节改期请愿

The Halloween Costume Association has started a national petition in the US to formally change the date of Halloween. The change.org petition, which already has nearly 32,000 signature, demands that all Halloween celebrations take place on the last Saturday of October going forward, rather than the 31st. In the petition, the association argues that changing the date would make it a "safer, longer, stress-free celebration." Throughout the comments on the petition, parents enumerate the benefits to a Saturday Halloween: no school the next day, trick or treating during daylight hours, more one-on-one parent-child time, etc. Then there are the haters. "This is ridiculous. People already celebrate the weekend before regardless of what day of the week it falls on," one user writes on Facebook. "This is just to sell more costumes and decorations."

万圣节及服饰协会发起了一项全美请愿活动，想要正式修改万圣节的日期。这项发布在change.org网站上的请愿已经征集到近3.2万个签名，请愿要求今后所有万圣节庆祝在10月最后一个周六，而不是10月31日举行。该协会在请愿书中称，更改万圣节日期将使其成为"更安全、更持久、更放松"的节日。家长们在请愿活动的评论中列举了将万圣节改在周六的好处：第二天孩子不用上学，可以在白天玩"不给糖果就捣蛋"，更多的一对一亲子时间等。但也有人表示反对。一位网友在脸书上写道："这太荒唐了。不论万圣节是一周中的哪天，人们都已经在之前的周末庆祝过了。这纯粹是为了卖更多的服饰和装饰品。"

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