On the earth every country has their “birth day”, but every nation observes that day in their own way. Mongolians and Canadians also celebrate their National Holiday differently. First, Naadam, the Mongolian National festival, occurs from July 11th to 13th of every year, and commemorates the 1921 revolution that brought freedom to Mongolia. However, Canada Day is day when Canada “born” as result of uniting of the British colonies into a federation of provinces and becoming independent territory of England on 1st of July, 1867. Furthermore, Mongolians have been celebrating Naadam festival for centuries. The festival name means "the three games of men" and includes Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery. At the present days it is formally organized and female have started performing in the archery and girls in the horse-racing, except wrestling. On the other hand, there is no official way to celebrate Canada Day and every province celebrates uniquely. Finally, like hockey for Canadians, sumo for Japanese, wrestling for Mongolians is most popular.
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Very interesting! Naadam does indeed seem more organized than Canada Day, and with a longer history. It reminds me a little of the Highland Games of Scotland. Have you ever heard of them? They have dancing competitions and something called the caber toss. You should find a youtube video of the caber toss.
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