My mums bday is 1/1 because she said “in Ethiopia, there’s no such thing as birth certificate. Your birthday is whenever you have money” I thought she was joking until I saw all her stuff lol-.
Your comment made me realize the importance of emotional vulnerability. I thought about how for poor families birthdays are burdens and can easily be the cause of disappointment and stress. Then I realized that a successful birthday can be something very exciting and valuable. In every relationship you make the decision to begin a new sort of birthday. Relationships come with higher expectations and in exchange for that you get intimacy and the opportunity for joy or pain. You cannot fully enjoy the fruits of any relationship without also risking disappointment. Random but there are my unrequested and unrelated thoughts.
My mum says the exact same thing, she always says how she she doesn't know her actual birth day/year whenever I ask. I'm also Ethiopian, my mum and dad were born there and I was born in the land down under.
For those of you confused, I will add that many immigrants and refugee families also had their papers misplaced. My Arab grandpa for example didn't know his own birthday because his family fled during the war, so we always said his birthday was February 29 lol
@@OceanlalaLovesyou Can't speak for everybody but I know in my family that many people were too young to remember or their parents died. They might have a good estimate of their birthday but probably don't know the exact date since it got lost
@@OceanlalaLovesyou Having 3 birthdays has happened to many people that I know. I can think of lots of reasons for it. Hastily filling out documentation as you're fleeing/immigrating, mix up of documentation (intentional or not by the government), lack of literacy, etc. There's also cultural reasons too like we just don't care about birthdays that much overseas, and there's also a practice of people actually saying they are +1 year older than they actually are, thus creating a new birth date
@@OceanlalaLovesyou Depending on what is going on around a person, a specific date may not be important. For some people, a"birth date", as we view it, isn't really important. For others, they follow a different calendar than we do, and it can be hard to convert the date.
The thing is nobody even documents most of the time, in Somalia people just say you were born the year the war broke out, or they war that disease was happening. And birthdays are not a thing .
@@OceanlalaLovesyounot every culture/ generation/ religion puts the same values & emphasis on birthdays. I grew up in a religion that did not celebrate birthdays at all.
When I worked with an immigration attorney, we had tons of Vietnamese and Cambodian clients who have 01/01 birthdays. Especially for those that were born during our just after the wars. Sometimes we had whole families with 01/01 birthdays, just different years.
My parents are Hispanic immigrants. They have their actual day they were born and their legal bday is the day their parents went to their city hall and registered them. So my mom’s is about 3 months later, and my dad’s is about 2 months after his actual bday. (They were born at home not a hospital) but!!! My great grandma’s is TWO YEARS after her actual bday. So legally she just turned 100, but she’s actually about to be 103.
I worked with an immigration attorney that had a lot Guatemalan clients from really small villages. Some of them were, technically, in there 40s and 50s, but they were never registered. This required extra documents.
True!! I'm subscribed to so many big creators and not a single one is posting about palestine except mimo and I'm honestly so disappointed!! There are even channels who posted so much about Ukraine but now its like this g3n0cid3 doesn't exist..
That’s really cool to learn about. My mom said that my grandparents also don’t know their birthdate because she said they didn’t have birth certificates or documents for it at that time (they grew up in a rural countryside in Thailand). 1/1 definitely seems like it would make it easy to remember and good to have a consensus for all the documents
My grandma's dad just decided "it was easier to do all the paperwork when he had all the(wanted) kids". One of my great aunts got put in as a newborn 2 YEARS after her birth😂
it’s similar with my great grandmother. she came to the US from puerto rico in her 20s and lost her papers in the process. she passed away a couple years ago and we only have a rough idea of how old she was, we know she was around 99 years old but I like to think that she lived to 100 :)
It also use to happen in Pakistan in the olden days parents would go to make a birth certificate when they had time because it had to made in government office and often time people got it wrong. Now, the hospital fill out a birth certificate which isn't legally binding but is a very important document to get a legit government approved birth certificate and family registery.
My father has two birthdays because in Mexico the hospital does not register your birth. You have to go to the Government Palace (like city hall) in the capital to register the birth. By the time my grandmother was able to make this trip several months had passed and she registered an incorrect date.
my papa had two, he lied to be with his brother who'd been drafted to war, so he lied about his age on paperwork. His two birthdays were a joke and when my youngest was born he said he gave her the second one, lol.
@@OceanlalaLovesyou His choices had nothing to do with me, I'm just a grandchild of theirs, I wasn't alive and had nothing to do with it. He was 16 years old when he did this, so who of us makes the best decisions at 16?? Mimo had been talking about extra birthdays of her family, so I shared a story from my own family. I'm sorry if it upsets you for some reason, but none if it is anything I did personally, so please keep your opinions civil and don't take it out on me. Did you yell at everyone else on this thread who mentioned extra birthdays or just me? My Papa was a great man and did make a great many mistakes in his life, but he was the greatest human being I've ever known, and I don't appreciate the way you are speaking about him. Please refrain from throwing hateful words towards my deceased grandfather, thank you!
My grandmother had a fake birthday, too. She was a sharecropper's daughter, and it took the local doctor five days to come out and confirm her birth. Her legal birthday was listed as 11/25, but she was born 11/20. When she died, it was kind of funny because you could tell which children and grandchildren actually spent any meaningful amount of time with her by whether or not they knew her real birthday. I miss her terribly.
Thank you so much for the free education and fun facts. Your amazing! I love watching you and the Furrah family. Thank you for opening my heart and eyes. My love and prayers always for you. Take care beautiful lady.
This is very common for people who dont live in cities. Yeah now we have lots of ID but before the birth certificate was only needed for few things....... so only when they need passport or travel documents ppl registered their birth. Besides each country sometimes have their own calendar.
Thats the same case with Yemen 😂😂 for so many reasons: 1) nobody cared for writing records 2) easy to remember 3) only applied to documents needed for immigration 4) nobody cared about birthdays
Birth certificates weren't a "huge deal" in Egypt back in the day, whenever you felt like going to get the certificate was fine. so my husband's family got it a day or two later than he was actually born, so legally his birthday says one day but he was actually born a couple days earlier.
In Mexico they didn’t give you a birth certificate when you were born and especially in small towns where there is mostly home births. My dad didn’t get registered till 20 days after he was born and they used the date he was registered as his bday and still have to use the official date for official documents.
Portugal kinda does the same thing. My neighbor when he passed was born in april, but his actual birthday and the date they had in the obituary were days off. My dad said there's a thing that sometimes they just write down the day they fill in the birth certificate or something idk.
Same for our family and I give my grandpa and grandma a kiss on New Year’s Eve saying happy birthday when it hits midnight. It’s my favourite thing lol
The 1/1 thing is absolutely correct, for many years I worked as a refugee processing officer with UNHCR which meant working with DHS/USCiS to resettle refugees in the states and when those refugees didn't know their own birthdays, the officers/staff always encouraged them to just state it as 1/1/(roughly the decade/year you think you were born in).
Me and my family have our birthdays right however many of Somalis have the same thing aswell but it was due to wars rather than money thing. When the wars started and people migrated there was no time for birth certificates :(
yeah it tends to be a really common immigration thing, especially because there’s many different reasons. Not every culture celebrates birthdays or an exact date for a birthday, if you are displaced from home you likely don’t have all the paperwork (if any at all), too young to remember and can’t ask parents or the parents themselves don’t know.
My father in law and paternal aunt have different dates of birth from their birth, it was a thing in Italy too before computers and everything set up in databases 😁
Before school became mandatory, I think they have 1-1 as birthday in Indonesia as well. But after school became mandatory, it is 7-1 or 7-7 for the whole cohort 😅
I used to work in a job where I'd process forms for immigrants and refugees and its very common even for younger people to use 1/1 when they don't have birth certificates
I actually just discovered this too - my great grandmother passed away not long ago, and my father (who had stayed with her in his younger years) told me that she was actually a year and a few months older than what her birth certificate said. ironically, none of my grandaunts or granduncles know/knew about this.
I worked in clerical medical field and we had so many 1/1 patients not only elderly but also refugees of all ages because fmsome countries dont register births and culture doesnt keep track of it. Youd ask a patient their age or dob and they'd say something like "35 summers"
My grandma has this exact same issue and has only started considering the earlier of the two birthdays she had to be her actual one when she was born on the later date
My mom had so much trauma being a refugee from Vietnam, when they asked her what my sister's bday was, she just said 10/1 bc she couldnt remember. She actually never remembered it, even decades later.
Same for my mom. She was born on the 15th, but the midwives in the south only filed paperwork once a month. If they can't remember the date, it's automatically the 1st for you.
the states have something similar. I was born in a hospital 4-30 with a hospital certificate. then in June I was registered for an official birth certificate. also if records were in a fire people have a hell of a time trying to find their birth dates. This is USA
It’s also quite common for refugees! When I taught immigrants, a child’s birthday being 1-1 also typically indicated their legal status. I assume some of this has to do with lost papers during wars etc.
It's the same for my dad nd uncle. For the longest time we didn't celebrate his birthday because of that. But when my sister started earning (she is the oldest and i am 13 yrs yonger than her) she started celebrating father's day as his bday.
My grandpa also has two birthdays because in Mexico at the time your birthdate was whatever day you could get to the office to register his birth so they went a couple weeks later. We still celebrate on his real birthday, but it makes it confusing when answering the DOB question at the doctor/pharmacy lol
The same for the older generation in Cape Verde. My oncles have the same birthday although they are two years a part 😂. Back in the day, your Birthday was the day where the baby was registered and those who did live far from where it had to be done, they would just go when it was possible for them
how interesting! In France, having a birthday set as “1-1” is also a social marker for a particular generation of immigrants. After WW2 France recruited a lot of workers in North Africa, especially Algeria, to help rebuild the country. Many of those men just didn’t know their birthdays and definitely didn’t have IDs or birth certificates at hand during recruitment so the French officials set them all as “1-1”. Many of those still live in France now and have had families so if your father or grandfather is a “1-1” that means you come from a very humble background.
In India it's very common to have a fake birthday most common for older generations and people in rural areas. This happens for 2 main reasons: they actually don't know their real birthday and to retire late. Retirement age is 60 so people reduce 2-3 years in their birth certificate to get 2-3 more years to work
1 Jan is a bit of an unfortunate birthday in the West though. I’d have picked something mid-year, lol! Especially if I lived in a place with cold winters.
My grandpa didn’t know any of his children's birthdays, so he just wrote whatever. My mom was given July 5th, even though she's pretty sure she was born in December lol. Back in our village in Iraq, you’d waited until the fifth child or so to go register your children
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Yes thats is the same for me and my older brother. We were both born in syria.My brother is 1/1 while im 1/10. ( Also btw love your videos and thank you for always speaking out for palestine) ❤
I have a fake birthday and I HATE it but just recently found out that it was because when you are born in Syria they don’t register you until a few months and the day that they register you is your birthday but I’m pretty sure that they rewind it a lot to try to make up for the lost time. So I am actually older then my birthday 😅😅 ( At least this is what happened to me and it may not be the same for everyone)
This is so true, my grandad (mums dad) had 01/01, and I think my grandma did too. They were both born in Pakistan and later came to England. My dad, was also born in Pakistan and has a random fake birthday, 16/03/1970, and we don’t even know if he was born in 1970 or earlier.
My mom is Moroccan and her fake birthday is the 25th of February even though she was born at the beginning of September. It's because my grandpa had to leave for a few months and my grandma didn't have the money to do all the paperwork until he came back. Since we don't know the exact date my mom prefers to celebrate on her fake birthday anyway
I was almost born on new years, but my mom took medicine to delay my birth a couple weeks (I was born very early). Then I was born a couple days later on the third bc the medicine didn't work completely
My mother has two birth dates. The day she was actually born on and the legal one which is the day she was registered on ( 15 days apart ). I guess the birth had to be registered on the day it happened and my grandmother had difficult pregnancies/ deliveries.
Omg do I have a STORY FOR YOU. My grandma (Nicaraguan) when she was born was literally jsut never registered. And she had no idea for YEARS that legally she never existed, until she was getting a job and needed her birth certificate and found out that they couldn’t find her name. So she goes to ask her mother what her real birthday is and her mother says “Well Sonia it’s when the virgin came down” and my grandma was like “well what the heck does that mean” the virgin coming down is essentially a parade (depending on when Easter falls) where they parade a statue or something blessed of Mary throughout the town and the new born babies birth within the time she came down (in the 1950’s-60’s) It was November and December. So my grandma could literally be born anytime between 1950 and 1967. ‼️She chose for her birthday to be November 23 1962‼️ The problem is though that she has an older brother who was born in 1961. So if she was actually born in 1962 her mother would’ve had to have given birth and immediately gotten pregnant again. It’s possible but highly unlikely given the fact that she was prone to miscarriages. (That woman was a trooper though she has 8 kids)
This happened to both my parent in El Salvador! My mother was born on 12/23, but my grandfather waited a month after she was born to fill out the work so now it says she was born on 1/23. My father wasn’t as bad, he was born on 7/27 and registered as being born on 8/4, however when he went to get a passport he had two different birth dates, and they didn’t let him get one.
My mom has this too. She was born in the end of December but they wrote it down as 1/1 of the next year because where she was born the school cut off is at the end of the year and my grandparents didn't want her being the youngest in the class
My grandfather is a twin, and because they came to America at different times, they have different legal birthdays😂 but paperwork was a struggle for a long time!
Birth certificates are fascinating. My aunt was born in the 70s in rural Brazil, and she is adopted. But legally, she is my grandmother's biological child because she just took this couple-months-old baby to city hall and registered her as having been born at home. The birth date is just the date she was found.
Beautiful cake ❤ that's kind of sad that older generations don't know their actual birthdates. But as long as they get to celebrate a birthday then I guess thats all that matters
My mums bday is 1/1 because she said “in Ethiopia, there’s no such thing as birth certificate. Your birthday is whenever you have money” I thought she was joking until I saw all her stuff lol-.
Your comment made me realize the importance of emotional vulnerability. I thought about how for poor families birthdays are burdens and can easily be the cause of disappointment and stress. Then I realized that a successful birthday can be something very exciting and valuable. In every relationship you make the decision to begin a new sort of birthday. Relationships come with higher expectations and in exchange for that you get intimacy and the opportunity for joy or pain. You cannot fully enjoy the fruits of any relationship without also risking disappointment. Random but there are my unrequested and unrelated thoughts.
My mum says the exact same thing, she always says how she she doesn't know her actual birth day/year whenever I ask.
I'm also Ethiopian, my mum and dad were born there and I was born in the land down under.
@@beautyallaround_ Same wth. I was born in Australia too lmao. What a coincidence-.
@@stephaniebatchelor6082 you have very impressive and beautiful thoughts
My dog's real birthday is 1/1
For those of you confused, I will add that many immigrants and refugee families also had their papers misplaced. My Arab grandpa for example didn't know his own birthday because his family fled during the war, so we always said his birthday was February 29 lol
@@OceanlalaLovesyou Can't speak for everybody but I know in my family that many people were too young to remember or their parents died. They might have a good estimate of their birthday but probably don't know the exact date since it got lost
@@OceanlalaLovesyou Having 3 birthdays has happened to many people that I know. I can think of lots of reasons for it. Hastily filling out documentation as you're fleeing/immigrating, mix up of documentation (intentional or not by the government), lack of literacy, etc. There's also cultural reasons too like we just don't care about birthdays that much overseas, and there's also a practice of people actually saying they are +1 year older than they actually are, thus creating a new birth date
@@OceanlalaLovesyou Depending on what is going on around a person, a specific date may not be important. For some people, a"birth date", as we view it, isn't really important. For others, they follow a different calendar than we do, and it can be hard to convert the date.
The thing is nobody even documents most of the time, in Somalia people just say you were born the year the war broke out, or they war that disease was happening. And birthdays are not a thing .
@@OceanlalaLovesyounot every culture/ generation/ religion puts the same values & emphasis on birthdays. I grew up in a religion that did not celebrate birthdays at all.
When I worked with an immigration attorney, we had tons of Vietnamese and Cambodian clients who have 01/01 birthdays. Especially for those that were born during our just after the wars. Sometimes we had whole families with 01/01 birthdays, just different years.
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My parents are Hispanic immigrants. They have their actual day they were born and their legal bday is the day their parents went to their city hall and registered them. So my mom’s is about 3 months later, and my dad’s is about 2 months after his actual bday. (They were born at home not a hospital)
but!!! My great grandma’s is TWO YEARS after her actual bday. So legally she just turned 100, but she’s actually about to be 103.
I worked with an immigration attorney that had a lot Guatemalan clients from really small villages. Some of them were, technically, in there 40s and 50s, but they were never registered. This required extra documents.
@@leylagutierrez5834 hi. Its me. The descendent of the Guatemalan immigrants from super tiny villages lol. Most of my family have had those issues.
@@katfox678 Hi! 👋🏼 😄. Hope the "unregistered" family is doing well 😊.
I was born in Mexico my birthday is 8.8.80. I was registered 10.9.80. Um even in Mexico my birthday is 8.8.80. So this isn't correct for everyone.
same thing happened for brazilian mom! except shes only about a week older than her legal birthday!
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True!! I'm subscribed to so many big creators and not a single one is posting about palestine except mimo and I'm honestly so disappointed!! There are even channels who posted so much about Ukraine but now its like this g3n0cid3 doesn't exist..
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That’s really cool to learn about. My mom said that my grandparents also don’t know their birthdate because she said they didn’t have birth certificates or documents for it at that time (they grew up in a rural countryside in Thailand). 1/1 definitely seems like it would make it easy to remember and good to have a consensus for all the documents
My grandma's dad just decided "it was easier to do all the paperwork when he had all the(wanted) kids". One of my great aunts got put in as a newborn 2 YEARS after her birth😂
My dad's the opposite 😂 he was born 1/1 but his birthday is documented in June because his parents wanted to get him in school earlier
it’s similar with my great grandmother. she came to the US from puerto rico in her 20s and lost her papers in the process. she passed away a couple years ago and we only have a rough idea of how old she was, we know she was around 99 years old but I like to think that she lived to 100 :)
Wow that cake is elegant. I have an aunt whose father said she was born the same year as Ms. William’s cow, right before the planting.
It also use to happen in Pakistan in the olden days parents would go to make a birth certificate when they had time because it had to made in government office and often time people got it wrong. Now, the hospital fill out a birth certificate which isn't legally binding but is a very important document to get a legit government approved birth certificate and family registery.
Always educating us! Thank you, Mimo. 😊 Commenting for the algorithm.
My father has two birthdays because in Mexico the hospital does not register your birth. You have to go to the Government Palace (like city hall) in the capital to register the birth. By the time my grandmother was able to make this trip several months had passed and she registered an incorrect date.
my papa had two, he lied to be with his brother who'd been drafted to war, so he lied about his age on paperwork. His two birthdays were a joke and when my youngest was born he said he gave her the second one, lol.
@@OceanlalaLovesyoulmao so you're one of *those*. 😂
@@OceanlalaLovesyouu seem mad in everyones comments 😂
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@@OceanlalaLovesyouenjoy your illogical delusions 😂
@@OceanlalaLovesyou His choices had nothing to do with me, I'm just a grandchild of theirs, I wasn't alive and had nothing to do with it. He was 16 years old when he did this, so who of us makes the best decisions at 16?? Mimo had been talking about extra birthdays of her family, so I shared a story from my own family. I'm sorry if it upsets you for some reason, but none if it is anything I did personally, so please keep your opinions civil and don't take it out on me. Did you yell at everyone else on this thread who mentioned extra birthdays or just me? My Papa was a great man and did make a great many mistakes in his life, but he was the greatest human being I've ever known, and I don't appreciate the way you are speaking about him. Please refrain from throwing hateful words towards my deceased grandfather, thank you!
My grandmother had a fake birthday, too. She was a sharecropper's daughter, and it took the local doctor five days to come out and confirm her birth. Her legal birthday was listed as 11/25, but she was born 11/20. When she died, it was kind of funny because you could tell which children and grandchildren actually spent any meaningful amount of time with her by whether or not they knew her real birthday. I miss her terribly.
Thank you so much for the free education and fun facts. Your amazing! I love watching you and the Furrah family. Thank you for opening my heart and eyes. My love and prayers always for you. Take care beautiful lady.
Beautiful art great story 🤗
This is very common for people who dont live in cities. Yeah now we have lots of ID but before the birth certificate was only needed for few things....... so only when they need passport or travel documents ppl registered their birth. Besides each country sometimes have their own calendar.
I have learned so much from you…cakes too lol…blessings
Thats the same case with Yemen 😂😂 for so many reasons:
1) nobody cared for writing records
2) easy to remember
3) only applied to documents needed for immigration
4) nobody cared about birthdays
Lmaoo fr
Totally relatable!! My grandpa and grandma both have the same written birthdays!!!
Birth certificates weren't a "huge deal" in Egypt back in the day, whenever you felt like going to get the certificate was fine. so my husband's family got it a day or two later than he was actually born, so legally his birthday says one day but he was actually born a couple days earlier.
Same thing happened to me lol I was born at the end of December and my dad just decided hey 01-01 will be easier
How did you get that gold drip??? Absolutely amazing 🤩
In Mexico they didn’t give you a birth certificate when you were born and especially in small towns where there is mostly home births. My dad didn’t get registered till 20 days after he was born and they used the date he was registered as his bday and still have to use the official date for official documents.
My husband is from Morocco and both him and his younger sister are 1/1. They were both home births.
Portugal kinda does the same thing. My neighbor when he passed was born in april, but his actual birthday and the date they had in the obituary were days off. My dad said there's a thing that sometimes they just write down the day they fill in the birth certificate or something idk.
It's the same in Algeria for many people who were born during the french colonisation, one of them being my mom الله يرحمها.
Same for our family and I give my grandpa and grandma a kiss on New Year’s Eve saying happy birthday when it hits midnight. It’s my favourite thing lol
I appreciate your beautiful cakes, but feel like I know you because you educate me in a very caring way. Thank you!
The 1/1 thing is absolutely correct, for many years I worked as a refugee processing officer with UNHCR which meant working with DHS/USCiS to resettle refugees in the states and when those refugees didn't know their own birthdays, the officers/staff always encouraged them to just state it as 1/1/(roughly the decade/year you think you were born in).
Me and my family have our birthdays right however many of Somalis have the same thing aswell but it was due to wars rather than money thing. When the wars started and people migrated there was no time for birth certificates :(
yeah it tends to be a really common immigration thing, especially because there’s many different reasons. Not every culture celebrates birthdays or an exact date for a birthday, if you are displaced from home you likely don’t have all the paperwork (if any at all), too young to remember and can’t ask parents or the parents themselves don’t know.
That's a gorgeous cake! I love it!
wow same with me. I was 0f january 4 and now I have to fill every document with 1-1 bcz my Father wrote it in birth certificate
My father in law and paternal aunt have different dates of birth from their birth, it was a thing in Italy too before computers and everything set up in databases 😁
Before school became mandatory, I think they have 1-1 as birthday in Indonesia as well. But after school became mandatory, it is 7-1 or 7-7 for the whole cohort 😅
I used to work in a job where I'd process forms for immigrants and refugees and its very common even for younger people to use 1/1 when they don't have birth certificates
I actually just discovered this too - my great grandmother passed away not long ago, and my father (who had stayed with her in his younger years) told me that she was actually a year and a few months older than what her birth certificate said. ironically, none of my grandaunts or granduncles know/knew about this.
thanks for explaining this! I've happened to see it a lot where I work and thought that might be the case, but was never sure.
Omg! My daughter has the same birthday as your sister! And my daughter loves your content! How amazing! ❤
I absolutely love this cake and you Mimo 💛
I worked in clerical medical field and we had so many 1/1 patients not only elderly but also refugees of all ages because fmsome countries dont register births and culture doesnt keep track of it. Youd ask a patient their age or dob and they'd say something like "35 summers"
My grandma has this exact same issue and has only started considering the earlier of the two birthdays she had to be her actual one when she was born on the later date
Im from Lebanon and that's so true, because of the war my grandparents dont actually know their real birthdays ,they just picked one for themselves
This is very interesting as well as kinda sad. I love reading your comment sections. They always seem so diverse.
My mom and all her sisters have 5/5 birthdays 😅
Love how relatable your videos are 😂😂❤❤❤
My mom had so much trauma being a refugee from Vietnam, when they asked her what my sister's bday was, she just said 10/1 bc she couldnt remember. She actually never remembered it, even decades later.
Same for my mom. She was born on the 15th, but the midwives in the south only filed paperwork once a month. If they can't remember the date, it's automatically the 1st for you.
What a beautiful cake! ❤
the states have something similar. I was born in a hospital 4-30 with a hospital certificate. then in June I was registered for an official birth certificate. also if records were in a fire people have a hell of a time trying to find their birth dates. This is USA
My Japanese grandfather was born on August 26th, but his papers say his birthday is on September 1st, for similar reasons
Can't believe I'm early for once! Beautiful cake and interesting story :]
The cake🤯😍😍😍🤩. It is so stunning ❤
It’s also quite common for refugees! When I taught immigrants, a child’s birthday being 1-1 also typically indicated their legal status. I assume some of this has to do with lost papers during wars etc.
Lol this happened to close family of mine too. Also from Lebanon. 😂❤
It's the same for my dad nd uncle. For the longest time we didn't celebrate his birthday because of that. But when my sister started earning (she is the oldest and i am 13 yrs yonger than her) she started celebrating father's day as his bday.
My grandpa also has two birthdays because in Mexico at the time your birthdate was whatever day you could get to the office to register his birth so they went a couple weeks later. We still celebrate on his real birthday, but it makes it confusing when answering the DOB question at the doctor/pharmacy lol
The same for the older generation in Cape Verde. My oncles have the same birthday although they are two years a part 😂. Back in the day, your Birthday was the day where the baby was registered and those who did live far from where it had to be done, they would just go when it was possible for them
how interesting! In France, having a birthday set as “1-1” is also a social marker for a particular generation of immigrants. After WW2 France recruited a lot of workers in North Africa, especially Algeria, to help rebuild the country. Many of those men just didn’t know their birthdays and definitely didn’t have IDs or birth certificates at hand during recruitment so the French officials set them all as “1-1”. Many of those still live in France now and have had families so if your father or grandfather is a “1-1” that means you come from a very humble background.
I didn't know in other countries the parents filled out the birth certificate. Wow, they could just make up anything 😂
Gorgeous!
My dad has two. His actual bday is on 16th of december but they put it as 12-12 cuz its even and easier to remember
I figured that it had to do with all that stufff. The pink and gold ❤❤❤❤ beautiful.
In India it's very common to have a fake birthday most common for older generations and people in rural areas. This happens for 2 main reasons: they actually don't know their real birthday and to retire late. Retirement age is 60 so people reduce 2-3 years in their birth certificate to get 2-3 more years to work
1 Jan is a bit of an unfortunate birthday in the West though. I’d have picked something mid-year, lol! Especially if I lived in a place with cold winters.
Same with my dad and grandparents. Legend has it that they don't actually remember their birth dates 🤭
My grandpa didn’t know any of his children's birthdays, so he just wrote whatever. My mom was given July 5th, even though she's pretty sure she was born in December lol. Back in our village in Iraq, you’d waited until the fifth child or so to go register your children
Free Palestine! I admire you because you are the only Content Creator who talks about what is happening in Palestine now, Gorgeous Cake as always, Thank you so much for sharing your Awesome Story about your Sister’s Birthday with me Mimo. 😃
Yes thats is the same for me and my older brother. We were both born in syria.My brother is 1/1 while im 1/10. ( Also btw love your videos and thank you for always speaking out for palestine) ❤
I have a fake birthday and I HATE it but just recently found out that it was because when you are born in Syria they don’t register you until a few months and the day that they register you is your birthday but I’m pretty sure that they rewind it a lot to try to make up for the lost time. So I am actually older then my birthday 😅😅
( At least this is what happened to me and it may not be the same for everyone)
Beautiful cake....i love your cakes
I have a friend actually born on 1-1 and her birthday is so easy to remember. I forget others sometimes but never hers just because it is so easy
This is so true, my grandad (mums dad) had 01/01, and I think my grandma did too. They were both born in Pakistan and later came to England. My dad, was also born in Pakistan and has a random fake birthday, 16/03/1970, and we don’t even know if he was born in 1970 or earlier.
My mom is Moroccan and her fake birthday is the 25th of February even though she was born at the beginning of September. It's because my grandpa had to leave for a few months and my grandma didn't have the money to do all the paperwork until he came back. Since we don't know the exact date my mom prefers to celebrate on her fake birthday anyway
Yep, the parents of my boyfriend also have 2 birthdays, and his mom was kinda excited because her "german" birthday is in October just like mine xD
I was almost born on new years, but my mom took medicine to delay my birth a couple weeks (I was born very early). Then I was born a couple days later on the third bc the medicine didn't work completely
My birthday’s January 4th too! I’m turning 18 soon :)
My mother has two birth dates. The day she was actually born on and the legal one which is the day she was registered on ( 15 days apart ). I guess the birth had to be registered on the day it happened and my grandmother had difficult pregnancies/ deliveries.
Beautiful cake. ❤
My birthday is actually 01/01/01 and 01/01 is the worlds most common birthday
Omg I love your videos I can’t believe I am second! ❤❤❤
Same in Ireland. Birthday is typically baptism date not actual birthday
Omg do I have a STORY FOR YOU.
My grandma (Nicaraguan) when she was born was literally jsut never registered. And she had no idea for YEARS that legally she never existed, until she was getting a job and needed her birth certificate and found out that they couldn’t find her name. So she goes to ask her mother what her real birthday is and her mother says “Well Sonia it’s when the virgin came down” and my grandma was like “well what the heck does that mean” the virgin coming down is essentially a parade (depending on when Easter falls) where they parade a statue or something blessed of Mary throughout the town and the new born babies birth within the time she came down (in the 1950’s-60’s) It was November and December. So my grandma could literally be born anytime between 1950 and 1967. ‼️She chose for her birthday to be November 23 1962‼️ The problem is though that she has an older brother who was born in 1961. So if she was actually born in 1962 her mother would’ve had to have given birth and immediately gotten pregnant again. It’s possible but highly unlikely given the fact that she was prone to miscarriages. (That woman was a trooper though she has 8 kids)
Just beautiful
My grandparents didn't know their birthdate either. Eventually we found out i shared a birthday with my grandmother, but after she passed.
Ive missed youuuuuuuuuu....and your "your eyes is dry"😫
This happened to both my parent in El Salvador! My mother was born on 12/23, but my grandfather waited a month after she was born to fill out the work so now it says she was born on 1/23.
My father wasn’t as bad, he was born on 7/27 and registered as being born on 8/4, however when he went to get a passport he had two different birth dates, and they didn’t let him get one.
January 4th is my birthday too me and your sister have the same birthday
My mom has this too. She was born in the end of December but they wrote it down as 1/1 of the next year because where she was born the school cut off is at the end of the year and my grandparents didn't want her being the youngest in the class
Beautiful cake❤❤❤❤
My grandfather is a twin, and because they came to America at different times, they have different legal birthdays😂 but paperwork was a struggle for a long time!
That's really interesting. I never knew this
Wow that cake is beautiful!
Birth certificates are fascinating. My aunt was born in the 70s in rural Brazil, and she is adopted. But legally, she is my grandmother's biological child because she just took this couple-months-old baby to city hall and registered her as having been born at home. The birth date is just the date she was found.
I'm African, 40 years old and my Dad's birthday date was 1/1 as well!
Hey my birthday is also January 4! Also, that cake looks amazing
Omg my sisters birthday is also 4 January happy early birthday to your sister
Beautiful cake ❤ that's kind of sad that older generations don't know their actual birthdates. But as long as they get to celebrate a birthday then I guess thats all that matters
I didn't know this. Thank you Mimo
Your sister has the same birthday as my arch nemesis, happy early birthday to your sister 😂🎉