Christmas in Japan is not what you think it is
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Can confirm we Americans take our Christmas decorations very seriously. I mean we have the show “the great Christmas light fight” 😂
I love that show
@@KnightSlasher me too! I watch it every year
So deck the halls is ACCURATE?! 😮
@@gracekim25 Yes. I recommend watching The Great Christmas Light Fight if you haven’t seen it. It’s literally houses competing with each other on who has the best lights. I think one time they even got a whole neighborhood in on it
Wait till you meet Filipinos
Fun to see the differences! In Sweden we celebrate on the 24th. It's a combination of Christmas and Yule. Every year, your family insists on watching the same episode of Donald Duck's Christmas on TV and some put a light strip or minor decorations out but other than that it's pretty relaxing. If you make it too flashy, your neighbors will complain. Oh and we have this giant straw goat (gävlebocken) in one town that people always try to burn down every year which is always the highlight in all of Sweden lmao.
I am from Sweden too
That straw goat thing sounds pretty metal. \m/
Basically the same in Denmark haha
Dont forget about santa not going through the chimney but the front door and then giving you your present personally
In America the family insists on watching 1983 A Christmas Story. It is literally on a TV channel they whole day. Just rerun after rerun.
Meanwhile an Aussie Christmas is pretty much: Complain about the summer heat as its not winter in December down here, we open gifts and put a tree up and some people put up decorations but others don't, usually the food you have on Christmas is often seafood and fruit cake/Christmas cake. You might play backyard cricket with the family. Oh and usually adults will rarely get gifts, usually you end up getting the children gifts.
growing up in Oz, the decision for xmas dinner (for the really big 'family')was made the night before, if rainy (super rare) a hot roast dinner was planned, if hot (most common) cold cuts, salads and a watermelon fruit salad basket was planned.
@@silkvelvet2616 Oh yeah I remember my family did that too but we nearly always had seafood of some kind and salad rolls as well.
NZ is very similar too though for us it's not always hot and often rains on Xmas. We've had a very cold summer so far which has been pretty strange since it's usually hot where I am this time of year (Auckland). Food for my family is usually a roast from the bbq with some trifle, a pav and my dad's homemade mince pies and Xmas cake 😋 We usually have Xmas lunch here and not dinner. I think Oz does that too.
@@Momoko524 Yeah we do very similar to NZ, probably cause our two countries are alike though I know there is still a debate between us on who invented the pavlova.
This sounds like Christmas for us in US
This video made me realize how all over the place my family is during the Christmas season.
Both my parents are Mexican and in Mexico, you technically start celebrating December 12th-January 6th because it’s a very joyous and holy time. It’s basically a whole month of nonstop music, food, beautiful decorations and Jesus. We have this thing called a Posada which is basically a small reenactment of Mary and Joseph trying to find a place to stay but there’s a lot of food involved, we also celebrate of the 24th instead of the 25th because Christmas Day is more of a quiet, church going day. If you’re not religious like me then you’re basically there for the food and the vibes and honestly it’s just a lot of fun.
I know, there's nothing like mexican style in holidays and food is always the best part but I think what makes it special is that everybody is really joyful those days :)
@@gabrielagarciajuarez5040 oh absolutely! I’ve been at holiday gatherings where there’s those 2 family members that ALWAYS gotta disagree with each other are always some of the happiest, most pleasant people to be around once the tamales and champurrado come out 😂 it’s hard to argue with people when you’re stuffing your face and/or dancing your heart out
Yeah and theres the 12th when ppl celebrate the Virgen Maria and pray to her and stuff but I'm just there for the food. Then the Reyes Magos which we are just there for the presents and the Rosca. Then new years which we celebrate like most other Americans, etc. For my family my fathers Birthday is on the 1st and my sisters is on the 4th so that's an additional 2 reasons to party.
That sounds a bit similar to the Advent season I grew up with in my Roman Catholic family. I don’t recall the exact dates but it starts in early December and ends in early January. My family played a mix of very pretty traditional religious music and more fun, modern music. Each Sunday in Advent we had extra prayers and bible readings around dinner, and over the month we gradually added more people into our house’s nativity scene to sort of mirror the story of Jesus’s birth. There’s some church events too, but I can’t quite recall them as well as my church’s Easter events. It’s been at least a decade since I’ve properly attended many religious Christmas events and I have memory issues regarding stressful parts of my childhood (a lot of which take place at my old church) so I can’t recall a lot of specifics at the moment.
"La Guadalupe-Reyes", a Mesoamerican favorite.
We actually used to leave a can of lager for Santa. Was always amazed that Santa drank alcohol 😂😂
He lives in a land with a season of paralyzing cold and darkness and a season of nearly perpetual sunlight and apparently he can't even die.
On top of all of that, he must spend most of his time in gift production and then has to do a worldwide trek in a 24 hour window of delivery.
Yeah, I'd be drinking something stronger than Lager if I was him.
Honestly, I am surprised he's not insane.
I must admit I enjoy Xmas in Japan as it’s low key and my kids don’t ask for toys all year round like the UK and US which is ridiculous. I prefer it celebrate new year we are now In UK and it’s Baltic and everyone is on strike and tbh I just wanted to get back on the plane. What an angry country. And why does everyone eat so much in the Uk and US it takes them a week to finish it all!! Give me a Japanese Xmas all the way
In the UK I see so many magical keys for Santa nowadays. Yes, a key for Santa to get in to houses without a chimney. As well as Christmas Eve boxes with things like new pyjamas inside
Oh yeah, my parents used to do the magical key for Santa on Christmas Eve, and we used to sprinkle reindeer food on the driveway, which was just glitter and oats😂
Yup, most chimneys are blocked up nowadays. I had a working fireplace til I was 8 or so when the council came to block it off in 2000 or 01.
Also you forgot we leave out a mince pie for Santa, and in my house we also left out a bottle of babysham.
That’s such a cute solution to the chimney problem, i cant believe I’ve never heard of that before!
Thank you for the Japanese subtitles! I've been showing my Japanese mum some of your videos to show some cool wacky stuff that even she probably hasn't heard of and I've always had to translate for her!
The "shred the wrapping" event is more for kids than adults. Mainly from the older you got the fewer yet nicer gifts were exchanged.
Or you’re my family where I end up getting way too many gifts for my folks. I think one year I got them seven each.
I also think it depends on the kid too, I think shy kids are always less likely to shred it, I never found the shredding part fun like I'm destroying someone's hard work of wrapping! And when the wrapping is so neat and perfect I don't want to destroy it! My family would always watch me turn it over and try to carefully undo the tape and yell at me to "just rip it!!" And I'd be like: why?! Whenever I saw kids go through wrapping paper like crazy I thought they were crazy lol. I think for kids though, a lot of the fun is seeing how excited and grateful/happy they are, and the violent shredding really shows the excitement.
I have no idea how I’ve been living in America for 20 years and have never heard of the whole New years kiss thing LOL
… I don’t know how you’ve lived without knowing this.
Granted, not EVERYONE does this, but it’s been a thing for years. Especially if you watch the NYC New Years Eve celebration.
@@galaxy_kitten95 at home we’ve always just celebrated by doing some fireworks and watching the ball drop on TV LOL
It’s never been any more than that for me, but interesting 🤔
I'm more surprised you haven't seen it in movies to know about it. But I guess holiday movies (or tv episodes) do suck.
I love how food and family is apart of Japanese Christmas culture still in Japan I guess no matter where you are those things are important and I love that
In Belgium we like to go out to the Christmas market or winter market depends how you call it and drink hot wine and get drunk on liquor with friends. I think it is similar to other countries around central Europe.
Yes, similar in the Czech republic :) In almost every city we have Christmas market. It´s popular place during december for drinks and chat with friends.
@@just.thalin I did not know Czech republic also had these, that is so interesting.
In Germany, we celebrate on the 24th and usually with family, but some people also do it with friends or their s/os if the family is toxic or there are other reasons why they can't come. Advent and advent calendars are pretty big over here, as well as St. Nicolas Day (or Nikolaustag) on December 6. Kids have to clean their shoes on the evening of the 5th and then put them near the entrace. When they wake up on the 6th, they'll find lots of sweets, tangerines and small presents in their shoes.
As for traditional christmas food, sugar cookies, gingerbread and Stollen (a kind of fruit cake) are very common here. For dinner, you will usually either find people having goose/duck meat, fish or sausages with potato salad. My family usually does sausages, potato salad, fish and baguette and some vegetarian meat substitutes for the vegetarians in the family.
I do a mixture of American and German because of my heritage
It’s watered down but we used to do St. Nikolaus tag but my mom got lazy so we ditched the boots/shoes but I like to call it boot day for fun nonetheless
And I still like to get an advent calendar every year
We also have German/European Xmas cookies but we have stuff like ham and turkey etc for our feasts
In my case, we never did the shoe thing, but Nikolaus came to my house in person. He was usually accompanied by an angel and the Krampus, who punishes bad children. Nikolaus would read from a book if I'd been naughty or nice. Of course I always got gifts, but I was so scared of Nikolaus. xD
Afaik, The KFC trend stems from Japanese also wanted to eat turkey, but back then turkey was rare and expensive due to imports, they settled on the next closest thing which was chicken. Since many Japanese homes don't have a big enough oven to roast a whole chicken, KFC jumped in on the chance with their marketing campaign. Why roast at home when you can get good American style chicken at KFCs? People just bought chicken at KFC every year to save on hassle, and as time went on it became a tradition.
Note people do get their chicken fix elsewhere, especially in the inaka where KFC might not be available. They might buy from a local shop or they roast them at home.
They need Popeye's in Japan.
I thought the New Year's kiss thing was solely for couples, what the frick? Who thought kissing a stranger at midnight was a good idea?
I hear it rarely goes well too but I think they think it's good luck or "maybe the start of a new year's budding romance!" It's often referenced in comedy though for going horribly or "someone so lonely and desperate that they kissed a stranger on new year's". I've even heard of people drunk vomiting during the kiss 🤢
TBH I always thought the kissing strangers thing was just in movies? I guess it could make sense for partying drunks too.
I've never done the kissing new year thing & I've never seen anyone else do it either, it might only be an new york thing.
As an American I’ve never heard of it and find it deplorable
That’s because you are correct and this chick doesn’t know what she’s spewing.
The Christmas lights in the US vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. Some are very reserved and only have maybe a couple strings of lights around their house and maybe some on the bushes. Others go balls to the wall insane and 90% of their electric bill for the year is used from November to January (weather permitting for takedowns).
We also go out on Christmas light viewing excursions. Not just to the city or park displays, but we will actually get in our cars, put on some holiday music, and go drive around looking at random people’s light displays. Some neighborhoods are hotspots for lights, and they tend to get a lot of traffic (around here it’s the fancy rich people neighborhood, Stamford Park; nearly every mansion and house has a ton of lights and many are themed, complete with inflatables of all sizes!) just cruising around, with strangers ooohing and aaahing at the lights. Nobody minds! We all just love to see what everybody else has done with their decorations, to see who was creative, who went the traditional route, and who went straight-up Griswold on their house!
in the philippines, christmas officially starts on the 1st of september. malls and houses are already covered in christmas lights and decorations. halloween would be just a side event. families would get together on the 24th, eat dinner, and drink alcohol til the 25th lmao
Oh, on the illumination notes, one thing that my family always does is to go visit the zoo a day or two before Christmas, to go through the light displays, we did it living in Chicago growing up, then in Colorado Springs, and now in Oregon, we always go ride the train and see the lights with the kids. Hope you have a great Christmas this year, everybody!
The differences are very interesting! As a Mexican American we have some of those similar traditions like ripping up the wrapping (LMAOO), Santa, etc. But we don’t eat hams and stuff like that. It’s almost like a normal cookout for us! We eat tamales, fajitas, champurrado, sweet breads, etc; and because most of us are catholic, we have posadas and church services because we celebrate Christmas on the 24th instead of the 25 :)
In the Philippines Christmas starts in the "ber" months so September to December you're gonna start to see Christmas stars (parole) everywhere and like the Americans Christmas light decorations on your house, the feast with the family is on the 24th and at midnight kids gets to open their presents. Hope that akidearest and the anime man gets to celebrate Christmas in the Philippines.
Seasons greetings to all :)
The Philippines has the LONGEST celebration of Christmas on any country in the world. Literally, the moment September comes, or what we call the "Ber months", it's gonna start to feel like Christmas here, which is both exaggerated and cool tbh. Bibingka and Putobumbong are a popular Holiday food, then we practice "Simbang Gabi", where you have to complete 9 church masses that happens every morning from December 16 to 24, plus a mass on the 25th itself. If you complete all masses, you will get 1 wish granted.
The Philippines is the best place to celebrate Christmas period. It has everything good about Christmas and more, like snow on Christmas is a pain to deal with but the Philippines is just summer or rain throughout guaranteed quality weather conditions for a holiday party, and its the only country in the world to make a huge deal out of Christmas as if its a festival, meanwhile elsewhere they view Christmas with more horror than Halloween itself
🤯 I thought that title was ours (Puerto Rican here 🙋🏽♀️🇵🇷✨)
Our Christmas celebrations start early November and end late January. So that’s about 3 months. I guess you guys win 😅🎉
In Puerto Rico, we have the longest Christmas in the world
We start in November and ended in February 1
In Finland we go to the graveyard...
The fact aside that it sounds kinda bizzare it's actually a way we remember loved ones who have passed away so we can still celebrate the holidays with them :) oh and we celebrate on the 24th on the 25th we normaly go visit our gandparents and eat christmas food👍
Sounds cool to me! Kinda reminds me of Dia De Los Muertos, but alongside the Christmas tradition instead of being just after Halloween. ^^
Interesting, we in Czechia just have "Dušičky" which is celebrated before Christmas and we remember people that passed away on that day and go to the graveyard.
Making KFC the focal point of Christmas day sounds like my kind of Christmas! 💝
I'd be down with it too if it weren't KFC
@@ImInAgonyLOL that and some hot wings
I kind of a Lee's kind of person. Lol
meanwhile, the philippines is like
"september is christmas. release the christmas decors...
and the jose mari chan songs"
Jose Marichan is the philippine equivalent to Mariah Carrey
@@TheRealIHP true
I hope you can gift your family a wonderful trip in Japan very soon!🍦
I am born and raised in West Virginia and our family tradition is to go eat Chinese food. We also have a drive thru light display.We also got carrots for the reindeer.
Omg it's so interesting that Christmas and New Year's expectations are switched in America and Japan 😲
In Finland, Christmas is the biggest celebration. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving and Halloween is just not that big. Finnish Christmas is a mixture of Japanese and American Christmas. but very holy ( 😟)
we even have Santa Claus living in Finland's Lapland, in Rovaniemi. 😊🇫🇮🎄
Greetings from Germany🤍💙🤍 I visited Helsinki this year and it was very nice.. I miss the Tacos there haha
For non-Americans, it’s important to note that a lot of Christmas traditions do vary depending on where a person lives and what their family’s religious/ethnic background is. There is a big difference too between religious Christmas and secular Christmas - someone might celebrate a combination of both or only one or the other. In my experience no two familes’ Christmas traditions are exactly the same and that’s always been something I’ve liked about the holiday growing up.
I’m from the USA myself, and I’ve lived in JPN for 10 yrs now. This yr will mark my 11th Xmas here.
In the States, my family never decorated the outside of our houses or apts (we always had a fake Xmas tree tho). Instead when I was a kid, my grandma would drive my little sis, cousin, and I around to look at other people’s house illuminations. She always knew the best spots. ✨
In JPN, my sister and I used to have a big party/potluck on Xmas day at our home. She moved back to the States 4 yrs ago, and I did my last Xmas party in 2020 (due to Covid). Now, I just do whatever on Xmas. 🤷🏽♀️
Last year I went craft beer shop hopping (a lot of friends work at them), and passed out candy to my friends and even strangers. After that, I went to my friend’s Xmas party. I’m not sure what I’m going to do this Xmas tho… 🤔
I loved Christmas in Japan while living there. I usually ordered our Christmas cake around Halloween. Never did do the KFC thing because we lived in US military base housing so had American ovens. Always loved the illumination always so much fun to see. Really miss the Japanese Christmas cakes.
Love it! Only thing is I wish you spent a little more time on what Japanese Santa is all about. I never knew I would be this curious about Japanese Santa 🤣 Welp, time to find a rabbit hole.
Aaaaand just found out Santa’s a ghost 🤣
@@yippykiay13 What? Now I have to go down the rabbit hole to. Lol
In the Philippines, the Christmas spirit is so advance that everyone decorates there house and adds the Christmas tree at Sep or Oct or maybe earlier
I think Scandinavia has a genre of tv shows which centre around Christmas. They’re called the Yule Calendar shows.
I am absolutely loving the comment section here. I love how everyone is telling their Christmas traditions from the country they are from. I think it's a very eye opening comment section.
In finland atleast my family has few things that are a must. Visiting graves of loved ones. Eating christmas dinner with idk what to call them but boxes with mashed potatoes, carrots and such and ham. With sweets being christmas cookies and christmas stars. Then we watch old finnish christmas cartoons and then go to Sauna while the presents are put to place. We open them on 24th evening usually.
I was born in America but my dad was born in Iceland. In Iceland, you open your gifts on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas day. Also, there's Christmas Folklore of the Yule Cat and Gryla. The Yule Cat eats children who did not receive gifts/clothes to wear before Christmas Eve and Gryla eats children who misbehaved... yeah lol
Please note that while there are people who compete for brighter houses in America, we also go to light shows to go see Santa and have hot chocolates whole seeing light displays.
I really want to experience Christmas in japan, it just seems so charming.
For real interesting and unique 🇯🇵
As an American I can confirm that yes, we act like this. When I was a kid, I used to rip open my presents now as an adult I carefully unwrap them so I can reuse the wrapping paper.
Christmas Eve is the day where you have a big Christmas dinner and then dessert and then you eat cookies while opening presents, and Christmas Day is where you sleep in and recover and have leftovers from Christmas Eve
The Philippines celebrates the longest when it comes Christmas season! It kinda bit starts when -BER months arrives! SeptemBER OctoBER NovemBER DecemBER~ Oh and it ends by January XD
I live in Brazil, Christmas is the time to reunite the family and then New Years everyone travels and parties and enjoys the fireworks, usually at the beach. I'd say the focus on christmas is more on children, a lot of families have someone dress up as Santa and actually show up and deliver their gifts in person to the kids at midnight, since most people don't have fireplaces anyway. As for decorations, where I live that's just the half dozen people you noticed put up some badly placed lights up their apartment windows and it looks like a mess because no one coordinated. Also it's summer and very hot so winter-themed decorations are confusing and the sight of Santa's clothes makes me want to pass out from the heat.
I'm from the country where Santa actually lives and leaves for his world tour on Christmas Night to give the presents.
Hello aki
I’m amused. We decided to do fried chicken for Christmas dinner this year, knowing that was a tradition in Japan. But I also made a big deal about getting a fancy Christmas cake. That one I had NO idea was also a tradition in Japan 😅 thanks for this! Now if only I could find an illumination show to attend 😂❤❤
Your ad transition had me spitting my coffee everywhere. 🤣
Admittedly I enjoy Bing Crosby songs during Christmas. We in America go crazy with Christmas. I have see houses brighter then Vegas!
At 1:05 I swear that's Bath Abbey!! I live near Bath so was super surprised to see it in this video about America Vs Japan Christmas!! Love you. Hope you and Joey have a lovely festive holiday xx
In Puerto Rico we get presents twice. We get presents for Christmas and then on January 6th we celebrate the 3 wise men . We get more presents and we go outside to grab grass and put the grass in a shoe box, put it under the Christmas tree so when the 3 wise men come with their camels the camels can have food to eat lol
I am in love with your avatar! So cute. And I love the opening of your video. Don't know when you changed it, but love it.... soooo funny!
I love your intro it’s genius.
In the UK some towns and cities have events where they make a big thing of "turning on the Christmas lights", but they don't look as pretty as those Japanese illuminations.
We also have people who get competitive about their house decorations.
Christmas in New Zealand is in summer, so we eat outside, or (if it rains) we set up a shade tarpaulin... and eat outside. Outside can be at a park, at a beach or in the back yard. Some houses have lights outside, but most of the lights are inside. Food at family get-togethers on Christmas Day is usually lamb, ham, chicken and roast veges with a pavlova (baked meringue covered in whipped cream and seasonal fruit) for dessert. Gifting is not over-excessive (some families have a $10 limit per person). Highlights often are phone calls from family members overseas or in other parts of the country. Everyone comes home one way or another.
Christmas songs and the odd hymn with fireworks happen at 'Christmas in the Park' in November-December. Churches with bells will ring them Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for their services.
New Zealand celebrates Boxing Day (December 26th) which is also a public holiday. Eating leftovers, drinking and beachgoing.
But the biggest difference is the *Christmas Shutdown* where almost all businesses (other than retail), parliament, government departments close for 2-3 weeks and schools and universities have 4-6 weeks of holidays. Even media organisations run a different schedule.
in Iceland, we have 13 santa's who are all brothers and come down from the mountains one by one from the 11th until the 24th of december and we let kids put shoes in their windows so they can leave small gifts for them.
Filipino Christmas starts at September and ends in February, and after Christmas eve when the lolas and tiats are at church the kids will go around their town and ppl will give the what we call a "Aguinaldo" and we would just have a fun time running around with friends and stuff.
Loving the illustrations 😍👌
This is so cool, I didn’t know that KFC was such a big Christmas staple in Japan lol 😁 My family and I celebrate Christmas on the 24th and the 25th so it’s like a 2 day celebration lol
Very similar in Korea to Japan where we order pizza, chicken, beer, and cake on Christmas but have a feast on new years and thanksgiving day
KFC is like the Honeybake Ham of Christmas in Japan 😂
9:45 so you agree that Japan's Christmas is best ........NOICE!!
The KFC thing also almost happened in the PH and it wasn't a long time ago. They started selling these entire chocolate mousse cakes and it only came out during Christmas season and it almost worked haha
7:01 this place is actually in Vienna if anyone wants to check it out 😆. Merry Christmas everyone 😃
We have illumination events in America as well. Just went to one last week. You drive through it and have a radio station set to it.
Happy Holidays to you too Aki & Joey as well 🥰🥰🥰
Here in Puerto Rico and probably somewhere else we celebrate two days of Christmas one for santa and the other is "los tres Reyes Magos"^^
My current Christmas tradition is going to either my father-in-law or my mom's on either eve or day it changes who's house we go to on which day every year. Also on Christmas day the 1st thing I do when I wake up I watch Ernest Saves Christmas.
Watching Chris getting KFC 🍗 for Natsuki and regretting later 😆 Christmas how I missed fireworks 🎆
i'm an ESL teacher and I teacha lot of Japanese students. This was fun and fact filled! Can"t wait to share my knowledge of Japanese X-mas w/ them!
Great video!
In the UK we leave out brandy and a mince pie for Father Christmas and a carrot for his reindeer.
Also, growing up it was tradition to leave our stockings at the end of the bed so that Father Christmas could put presents in their while we were asleep so we'd wake up with presents at the end of the bed. Unfortunately I'd be scared of him coming into my room when I was asleep. As I got older and didn't believe in him anymore the stocking would stay outside the door and I'd hear my parents trying to be stealthy and say thanks to them
Thinking of Christmas being romantic is hilarious. I live the KFC thing over there, it's too funny. In my house we get another turkey, ham, enchiladas, a traditional Native American soup (from my tribe, it's simple but good), mashed potatoes, the whole 9 yards. Pretty much a second Thanksgiving and we invite everyone over for that as well.
We do take Christmas lights seriously and in AZ we also have public "illumination events" so to speak, like the Phoenix Zoo Lights, Downtown Chandler has the giant Christmas tree made from tumbleweeds and my small town puts together a small parade. A few things are constant, like Mall Santas, Nice!
thats the best sponsor placement i've seen on youtube
Thank you for this comparison Aki! I'm an American so it's really neat to see how Christmas differs in Japan
In Peru, there is "Takanakuy" where on December 25th people will fight each other to settle old conflicts
Merry Christmas and a happy new year
The city I grew up in in Massachusetts actually had a big yearly illumination event downtown. It was such a big deal that it got the city the unofficial nickname "The Christmas City" which many people use instead of the official city title of "The Silver City." Still looks like it doesn't compare to the ones in Japan but it was this big deal thing that people would go to on dates or bring groups of friends to every year, even people from other cities and towns or sometimes even from out of state. The crowds would be so big you could barely move sometimes and they would have to block off the streets in the area for the whole night. Also you could get a pin or a sticker that would get you free or discounted food or drinks from some of the local restaurants and stores which was pretty neat.
A Venezuelan viewer here , in Venezuela we celebrate the 24th, not the 25th and it is a very large gathering with the whole family, and the New Year is celebrated the same, a party with the whole family and depending on the family we dress formally with suits and dresses. Merry Christmas from Florida.✌
andd the presents come from baby Jesus not santa
Here in the Philippines Christmas starts in September~
So not sure about other cities but in Austin, TX The illumination events are big and pricey. Train rides, ferris wheels, tickets sale out.
In Puerto Rico, Christmas begins after Thanksgiving.
The lights!!!! My uncle (he was my great aunt foreign exchange student) LOVES THEM. We get a Christmas card from Japan every year with all of them and a bunch of lights. And he posts them all over FB. It looks frigging magical 🥺🥺🥺
For my family, we always did Crab and Shrimp for Christmas, got together with my grandmother on christmas eve and then Christmas Day was just the family we lived with. Now that my brother has his own family, it has stretched out to his family to for christmas day but even then, it is still fun and feels more special that it lasts a bit longer.
Here in Iceland we celebrate Christmas on 24th. 13 days before Christmas, the yule lads come on each day and gives us tiny gifts which are always put in our shoes. And on Christmas eve. We would normally wake up get our last gift from the 13th yule lad. And then take the morning easy, While helping your family make dinner. Then at night everyone goes to meet their families. For dinner. We turn on the tv and put on the news while we eat a 3 course meal. and when the clock strikes 6pm. And we hear the Christmas bells on the news. Everyone goes and sits on the couch. And we all take turns opening our presents.
its Vienna (Austria) at 07:00. Its the Christmasmarket at the Stephans Dom, which is a famous place.
I love all the cartoons to go with it. So funny
Finna binge watch aki
aki >>> any other youtuber
In the uk we go out to public displays to watch someone either from an old tv show or a pantomime switch on the town/city centre Christmas lights.
They go all out for this if there’s a big enough budget like a big tree, fireworks, markets stall ect.
It’s very kid/ family focused and kids will be writing a letter or list to Father Christmas about what they want.
They get to visit him in malls and department stores but they don’t sit on his lap anymore and any pictures being taken is up to the parent to be quick enough to get a decent snap.
We give Father Christmas whisky, brandy or red wine with a mince “spiced fruit” pie.
But if your needing to be sober for the morning milk and cookies will also do, oh and a carrot for the reindeer.
Christmas Day a responsible parent will have a bin bag at the ready while everyone throws wrapping paper missiles.
Binge on tins of chocolates and whatever snacks you carelessly left out ALL before the roast turkey has even made it out of the oven.
There’s usually stuff on the tv you can tune out to.
New years is hit and miss, sometimes you want to stay up late to see the new year fireworks on tv and sometimes you think f it I’ll go to sleep and watch the footage on the news.
We do have New Year’s parties that are full of drunk adults but they will have children with them especially if it’s a family planned event.
My family is Mexican, so one of our Christmas traditions is to make tamales. That, and at least a dozen different types of cookies that we give as gifts to our neighbors.
I always believe Santa to be real because I got a gift from him one year that wasn’t in my parents or even my grandparents hand writing. Like seriously it was the nicest penmanship I’ve ever seen.
In Germany we celebrate on the 24th Dec with our Family with a Feast. After that we usually wait until we are allowed to Open our presents. Adults mostly have a Beer or wine between Meal and opening presents.
If you are a good child, you get presents from Santa (Weihnachtsmann) or Christkind. But If you were naughty all year around Krampus is coming with his Rod and whip your bum 😅 i believe many Americans heard about our Krampus in storys or Shows.
The 25+26th are days for visiting Friends, Relations or Just staying Home and eat the leftovers.
New Years Eve we celebrate with Raclette, Bowle (Alcohol), Family and Friends and so fun activitys like predicting the next year with waxmelts in water (Back in the days hot Lead was used instead of Wax) 😅
Merry Christmas Aki!
In Iceland we have 13 yuletide lads who come off the mountain, one each day, starting 13 days before Christmas. Kids put a wooden shoe on their windowsill each night and in the morning they find a small preset, candy, or cookie. On Christmas eve a large portion of the populace trudges off to church for an advent sermon, after which we go home for Christmas dinner, dancing around the Christmas tree, and opening our presents. The yuletide lads head back into the mountains the day after Christmas, again one by one, each day, but there are no gifts in the wooden shoe this time around. Then on the 13th day after Christmas, most people take down their Christmas decorations, which were traditionally put up 14 days before Christmas (and rarely before Dec 1, or at least it used to be that way 40-50 years ago).
I live in Texas but, had a German grandfather so in tradition; we would leave our shoes in front of our bedroom doors to be filled with fruits and little goodies. After he passed then we got stockings and that confused me so much.
I just realised that at 7:01 you showed a viennese christmas maket! I literally just walked by there 10 mins ago 😍 🇦🇹
This answers my question of how Japan lights up compared to the US. Thanks for tackling this.
there's lots of things we do in czechia.. for example there's this saying that if you won't eat anything until christmas dinner, you'll see a golden piggy.. and also if one member of your family stands up and leave during the dinner (while everyone is still eating), he'll die in a year which used to freak the fuck out of me lol.. we also don't wait until the next day to open our presents, we're going at them right after dinner.. dinner usually includes carp or chicken schnitzel and almost every household eats potato salad with it aaand.. i think that's it.? nothing else really comes to mind.. but anyway happy holidays everyone!!
before christmas in the netherlands we have sinterklaas (wich i think is where santa might have came from) and we put our shoes out as children for multiple nights leading up to his birth day December 5th. and when we put our shoe down it's customary to sing a sinterklaas song and leave a carrot for the horse (yeah horse he rides on a white horse over the roofs)
On christmas eve we would get to open a present, and it would be pajamas, usually Christmas themed. I love new pajamas.
Happy early Christmas!