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Happy Holidays to you all! Get bent, FOX news. Let everyone celebrate the season. Now, I am off to prepare for Festivus at my house.

  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    There are some Christian denominations that celebrate Christmas in January.

    Also for some countries, they do Christmas Day on the 24th. Poland for instance tends to have the big family get together dinner on the 24th.

    But yeah, you can also have Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanza, New Years, Eid/ end of Ramadan, you could even throw in Lunar New Year which can be early January. Also St.Stephens Day/Boxing day, Los Posadas. Even the Satanic Temple has the festival of Sol Invictus if you wanted to include that too lol.

    • TheMurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      I think nearly all European countries except the English speaking, celebrates at 24th.

      • AnagrammadiCodeina@feddit.itEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        In Italy we are split between terroni (24th evening celebration and 25th lunch celebration) and polentoni (25th lunch and 26 lunch)

        At the end happens often that families are mixed so you do all the 3. On top of that you have friends to meet and what’s best than another lunch/dinner?

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’m in the US, and our family has always had the big get together on the 24th with extended family, then the morning of the 25th is a more personal thing where our individual families (and their children now) get together and exchange gifts.

        So I don’t know if there’s any real generalization like that.

        • TheMurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Everyone is never everyone in the real world. I do think though, that the general majority in each country does the same thing.

          And what you described is not the European way but the “English” way, confirming my statement.

    • webadict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      True. Happy holidays was accidentally inclusive, as opposed to it being designed that way. It was just used as another way to say Merry Christmas.

    • S_204@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      We also celebrate yalda night in there.

      Winter solstice time tends to be culturally significant for most.

    • MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      for some countries, they do Christmas Day on the 24th. Poland for instance tends to have the big family get together dinner on the 24th.

      It’s the same in Denmark, I wonder if it’s a Northern European thing? I think Poland is mostly Catholic whereas Denmark is Lutheran protestant, so it’s not just denomination.