Talk:Weekend

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I would like the interested Wikipedian to write the authors of the above articles, or to do more research and writing themselves, to see to it that a complete treatment of this very interesting topic be given on Wikipedia! (And, of course, the completed article could easily be given the NuPedia treatment after that.)

I have a number of questions on this topic that I would enjoy having answered:


 * What is the history of the weekend, or a weekly or periodic rest, in China and the rest of the Far East?
 * At what time did East and West begin enjoying their weekend days on the same days?
 * What are the cultural differences between ways weekends are spent?
 * In the West, culturally speaking, the Sabbath forms the fundamental reason for a day of rest. What reason, if any, is there for a day or days of rest in other cultures, e.g., in China and sub-Saharan Africa?
 * Are there cultures that do not have a day of rest?
 * What are the results of psychological or other scientific studies on the effects of regular rests or lacks thereof?
 * Have there been any cultures in which there was not a day of rest every seven days, but some other number, such as five or ten?
 * french Republican calendar and Soviet calendar.
 * Are there any good arguments that the institution of five-days-on, two-days-off should be changed? (Are any good arguments on that even possible?  What would a good argument about such matters be like?)
 * work reduction and those who want to reduce thw work week to avoid unemployment.

I have many questions, but few answers... -- Larry Sanger

israel weekend
in Israel most people work on fridays and saturdays are the day off, which of course, makes a lot of people unhappy.

Israel
So what are the closing days in say an Israeli hospital? With Jews, Muslims and Christians it has to be difficult to have everybody happy.

Iran
I think I read that in Iran it is Thursday and Friday?

Education on the weekend
The article on five-day work week mentioned how modern weekends are slowly encroached by work with the exception being education: "One area that the weekend has remained unimpinged is in education where schools through the west still shut on Saturdays and Sundays."

This is not entirely correct.

With the use of a public and competitive examination to ration places in better schools or university, cramming or coaching schools are common fares on weekends. I know this to be true in Asia and in Australia.

Economists would view this kind of examination booster as a zero sum game, but once someone starts to employ this device, the rest of the population usually have no choice but to join the rat race. I personally know a family who got rich from supplying such "education service".

Weekend education does not only affect the school age population. Many workers use weekends to study for a part time university degree or professional association examinations.

orient
someone please write something about the orient and asia. it covers half the human population, yet, no one wrote about weekends there. it seems to me that in the orient, weekends are pretty much irelevant. it's not like western countries where everything comes to a screeching halt.

Old history
Some page history that used to be at the article weekend can now be found at Talk:Weekend/Old history. Graham 87 10:43, 31 May 2009 (UTC)