{"id":8982,"date":"2014-04-01T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress72\/?page_id=12285"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:29","slug":"fooling-or-being-fooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2014\/04\/01\/fooling-or-being-fooled\/","title":{"rendered":"Fooling or being fooled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"typo3-heading-2\">Fooling or being fooled<\/h2>\n<p>Although the dates vary in certain countries, the sentiment behind April Fools stays the same. How is it celebrated in other countries? And what kind of pranks did they enjoy in the past? <\/p>\n<h3>Reiji Hoken, 19 (Japan) &amp; Muhammad Suensson, 21 (Sweden) \u2013 International Bachelor of Economics &amp; Business Economics<\/h3>\n<p>Reiji: \u201cI called my mother last night and told her I was going to be a father. She reacted pretty although she was quite angry at first. When it comes to people pranking me, girlfriends in the past have also pranked me by saying they were pregnant. I would freak out and just Google all sorts of stuff until they finally said that none of it was true.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Muhammad: \u201cI\u2019m from Sweden and normally television broadcasters and newspapers putting false information is a big tradition. One of the most famous one was the hoax where they claimed that if you put a nylon stocking around your TV set you could see the images in color and people believed it. That one is probably my favorite prank. Pranks we did when we were younger were far less elaborate, like changing the times on the clocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"typo3-img-div\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASSETS\/em\/EM\/Campus_Talk\/reiji-muhammad-april-fools.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<h3>Raquel, 25 (Spain) &amp; Lys, 24 (Spain) Masters of Economics.<\/h3>\n<p>Lys: \u201cIn Spain we celebrate April Fools on the 28th of December and it\u2019s called The Day of the Innocent. What we do sometimes is get figured cut-outs and tape them on people\u2019s back. It\u2019s something people of all ages do. We also have a lot of TV broadcasters or newspapers announcing fake news and telling the public it\u2019s not true at the end of the day.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Raquel: \u201cEvery year they come up with new things as outrageous as a zombie attack in villages people haven\u2019t heard of and adding fake evidence to it. With social media around today you also get instant reactions of skepticism or actual shock. It\u2019s a lot of fun.\u201d  <\/p>\n<div class=\"typo3-img-div\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASSETS\/em\/EM\/Campus_Talk\/raquel-lys-april-fools.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<h3>Selma van Slobbe, 21 (Rotterdam) International Bachelor of Communication and Media <\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in Rotterdam and when I was younger April Fools was something we always enjoyed. The day before everybody would be excited for April fools. We played little pranks against one another and sometimes the teacher would switch around assigned seats in class. Today, I guess I see it as something for younger kids. Still, people are aware of it, for instance a girl announced her wedding on April 1st on Facebook and some comments on that were, \u2018oh is this for April Fools\u2019? It\u2019s not ignored but it\u2019s just not as celebrated.\u201d\u00a0 NAH <\/p>\n<div class=\"typo3-img-div\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/ASSETS\/em\/EM\/Campus_Talk\/selma-april-fools.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n\n\t<div data-name=\"acf\/posts\" class=\"alignfull py-6 md:py-8 lg:py-10 bg-white\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"container-fixed\">\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"space-y-6 md:space-y-8\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"text-xl md:text-2xl\">Latest news<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<ul data-component=\"post-grid\" class=\"grid items-stretch grid-cols-1 gap-2 md:gap-4 lg:gap-8 text-zoom-lg:grid-cols-1\n\t\t\n\t\tlg:grid-cols-3\n\t\t\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<li class=\"@container\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div data-component=\"teaser-post\" class=\"block-theme-sand hidden lg:flex h-full relative flex bg-sand-300\n\tblock-theme-violet:bg-white block-theme-violet:text-purple block-theme-mocha:bg-sand-500 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