Hey /int/ friends, can we have a wholesome thread to get into the holiday spirit? What are some christmas practices you like in your country? The snowman cartoon is pretty popular here and people often go to christmas sauna. My favorite christmas memories are probably getting out of the sauna and having christmas dinner set ready when I get back, or seeing snow fall outside of my window when everything's dark except for all the christmas lights and candles.I also really like "silent night" song even though I know that's pretty basic.
>>217804055Can't believe westerners will have their Christmas in couple of day while here in the East we have to wait till new year
My muslim family decorates the house and we have a christmas tree and exchange gifts
>>217804073I always thought it was odd that Russia had such different christmas culture, is that an orthodox thing or a soviet era thing?>>217804105Christmas was originally a pagan holiday, so it seems everyone likes it.
>>217804136Orthodox Christmas is in January and nobody really actually celebrates it. We celebrate the New Year's eve because commies broke the Christmas tradition.
I remember we used to have threads about this every year, comfy arson threads
>>217804182It's still standing right now, someone should do something about that
>>217804136It's Orthodox thing, because they don't use Gregorian calendar or something, so 25th December in old calendar is the 7th January in the modern one.But some OrthoDOGS (Greece, Romania and some others) switched to Catholic way for Christmas and celebrate it on 25th December.And like anon above wrote we barely celebrate it in any way. Here it's 31December-1st January is being celebrated the most as the New Year.
>>217804158>>217804245So do you do all of your "christmas" stuff like exchanging presents on New Years?
>>217804331I just cry in bed
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>>217804331Yes.
I got this for Christmas when I was a kid and then I built it late into night while my father drank beer and smiled. He's about 70 and still mad about the time when he got shitty used skis as a present when he was a kid.
