Golden Week? Why do you call just two days that way?

In the states, the first vowel of the word "vacation" should be pronounced as /ei/. Most Japanese people don't pronounce that way, though. I don't know why. By the way, National Lampoon's Vacation is a popular movie. Anyway, Golden Week might be too short even for a vacation.

One of my colleagues, who is from New Zealand, told me that we shouldn't call these coming two holidays "Golden Week" because they are much shorter than even one week. That makes sense.

Europeans work for vacations. They have different philosophy of life than the Japanese.

This is the vacation, man! But, how many Japanese people can have their Golden Week like this? Maybe, none.

What is Golden Week, by the way? Here is Wikipedia's explanation:

Golden Week (ゴールデンウィーク, Gōruden Wīku?), also known as Ōgata renkyū (大型連休, Ōgata renkyū?) or Ōgon shūkan (黄金週間, Ōgon shūkan?), is a Japanese term applied to the period containing the following public holidays

April 29
Greenery Day, or Nature Day (みどりの日, Midori no hi?), until 2006
Shōwa Day (昭和の日, Shōwa no hi?), from 2007

May 3
Constitution Memorial Day (憲法記念日, Kenpō kinenbi?)

May 4
People's Day, or Citizen's Day (国民の休日, Kokumin no kyūjitsu?), until 2006
Greenery Day, or Nature Day (みどりの日, Midori no hi?) (from 2007)

May 5
Children's Day (こどもの日, Kodomo no hi?), also known as Boys' Day
(端午の節句, Tango no sekku?)

Note that May Day (on May 1) is not a public holiday, but is nevertheless often granted as a holiday by many companies. When a public holiday lands on a Sunday, the next day that is not already a holiday becomes a holiday for that year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(Japan)