Only just over half of Brits celebrate Easter as a proper special occasion, not as a gimmick or due to pressure from commercial entities.
According to a YouGov poll 54 percent of Britons said they celebrated Easter celebrated more because it is a proper special occasion.
A country divided
However, although this is a positive look on the holiday, the country was divided as four in ten (40 percent) said Easter is celebrated more because of pressure from commercial entities, like greetings card companies, and six percent said they were unsure.
France had the most similar statistic to the brits with 51 percent saying it’s celebrated as a special occasion, compared to a 37 percent who said it was celebrated due to commercial pressure.
People in Poland had very different views – Polish people are especially likely to say that Easter is celebrated nationally on its own terms, at 82 percent. Only 13 percent see celebrations marking the death and resurrection of Christ as too commercialised.
Danish people were second most likely to feel Easter as an occasion that is still celebrated for good cause (73 percent) rather than because of commercial pressure. Spaniards (71 percent), and Swedes (69 percent) came third and fourth respectively.
Divided over when to celebrate
Brits were arguably more divided over when it’s acceptable to indulge in Easter celebrations – ie. eating all the chocolate eggs.
In another poll it showed almost a fifth of Brits (17 percent) said it was acceptable to eat Easter eggs all year round, where as a third (35 percent) said you must absolutely wait until Easter Sunday itself.
Just over one in ten (12 percent) said Good Friday was a good enough day to rip open the foil and reveal the chocolate and a similar amount of people (13 percent) said they don’t celebrate Easter.
However, this is pretty understandable why almost a fifth of people could easily eat them all year round as we have been seeing them tempting treats sitting on supermarket shelves as early as January in some cases.