Bahamas Junkanoo Festival: Junkanoo is a Bahamian cultural celebration that includes dance, music, spirituality, and a celebration of freedom. In its purest form, it was how the slaves expressed jubilation from the their lives of captivity. 

Brazil's Carnival: This cultural manifestation is generally an extension of Afro-Brazilian culture, though could also be historically traced to the Portuguese Age of Discoveries. Street festival full of dancing, singing and colorful costumes are enjoyed.  Music varies by region but in the southwest Samba is prominent.

Eid al-Fitr: also called the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan.  Sweet treats such as cookies and dates are exchanged among loved ones, neighbours, colleagues, friends and even strangers.

Mid-Autumn Festival (Vietnam): The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Full Moon Festival, is a festival mainly for children. During the festival parents buy their children various types of lanterns, snacks and funny masks. In addition, a variety of interesting literary and art activities are held throughout Vietnam during the Mid-Autumn Festival such as dragon boat races, and lantern fairs

Chuseok: In contemporary South Korea, on Chuseok, masses of people travel from large cities to their hometowns to pay respect to the spirits of their ancestors.[7] Chuseok celebrates the bountiful harvest and strives for the next year to be better than the last. People perform ancestral worship rituals early in the morning. Then, they visit the tombs of their immediate ancestors to trim plants and clean the area around the tomb, and offer food, drink, and crops to their ancestors.