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VS American | Evan Edinger & noodlerella

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Christmas Traditions in America - What the Americans Do At Christmas

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http://www.woltersworld.com Happy Birthday Jesus! Learn about some of the Christmas traditions in America, without any mention of the most important part of Christmas. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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How Russian Christmas is Celebrated Video 1 (Two Parts!)

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Part 1

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How Russian Christmas is Celebrated Video 1 (Two Parts!)

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This lesson consists of two videos! You are now watching the first part. Here is the second part - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjVdzAxe3VM In this video lesson I talk about how Christmas is celebrated in Russian culture.

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How do Russians celebrate Christmas and New Year?

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- Use trees for new years instead of Christmas

- Has Ded Moroz instead

- Holiday starts on 31 of December ton January &

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- Christmas starts on December 24/25

- Santa bring presents to the children

- Has magical elves and deer to help him

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The two countries' cultures could be evaluated as religious holidays

Both have feasts to celebrate

They both decorate with lights and a star

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The traditional saying in the U.S.A is Merry Christmas.

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 Baking cookies or desserts are very common as well. Many deserts are typical, fruit cake, chocolate things like brownies, or moose, gingerbread cookies, sugar cookies, and the classic chocolate chip cookies.

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Eggnog is a 'traditional' Christmas drink in the USA.

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Some Americans use popcorn threaded on a string to help decorate their Christmas Tree. Making gingerbread houses is also popular to make and eat at Christmas. and the unusual custom of the Christmas Pickle.

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Most meals consist of meat such as turkey or fish as the main dish with sides of potatoes, onions, sliced meat, or cheese.

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In some states, there are stores called Christmas Shops that only sold Christmas decorations and toys for the entire year. Other people also send out Christmas Cards, and go Carol singing.

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Some customs are similar to ones in the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, and Mexico. Many people, who are Christians will go to Church to celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas no. Many churches have special Christmas Carol services and events where the story of Christmas is told.

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The celebration of Christmas started in Rome at about 336 but it did not become a major Christian festival until the 9th century. Many Christmas traditions, such as decorating trees, started in Germany and later spread to other parts of the world, notably England and the United States. The United States of America has many different traditions and ways that people celebrate Christmas, because of its multicultural nature. 

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Most people like to decorate the outsides of their houses with lights and sometimes even statues of Santa Claus, Snowmen, or Reindeer. Similarly, towns and cities often decorate the streets with lights to celebrate Christmas. Perhaps the most famous Christmas street lights in the Us are at the Rockefeller Center in New York where a huge Christmas Tree with a public ice skating rink in front of it can be seen throughout Christmas and New Years'. Some cookies and a glass of milk are often left out as a snack for Santa on Christmas Eve.

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In Cyrillic characters or Russian it is written as рождеством Христовым also known as 'S rozhdestvom Khristovym' in English characters.

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On New Year's Eve children, held hands as they made a circle around the Christmas tree and call for Snegurochka or Ded Moroz. When they appeared, lights and ornaments on the tree light up, the traditional greeting for Happy New Year was 'S Novym Godom'. In addition, Christmas in Russia is traditionally celebrated on the 7th of January although, some Catholics might celebrate it on December 25th. The date varies due to the Russian Orthodox Church, which uses the old Julian calendar for religious celebration days. The Church also celebrates Advent although, it has fixed dates, starting on 28th November and going to the 6th of January, it's 40 days long. The official Christmas and New Year holidays in Russia last from December 31st to January 10th.

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It's still a smaller holiday in Russia after the big New Year celebrations as the New Year was the time for spending lots of money, eating, and drinking a lot, unlike Christmas, which was much more religious and private. New Year's was also when Grandfather Frost, also known in Russian as Ded Moroz, brought presents to the children and was accompanied by his granddaughter Snegurochka.

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Since 1992 Christmas has become a national holiday in Russia, as part of the ten-day holiday at the start of the new year. Although even in the days when the Soviet Union was in power, Christmas wasn't celebrated as often as New Year. Following the revolution in 1917, it was banned as it was a religious holiday in 1929. Similarly, so were Christmas Trees until 1935, when they were repurposed as New Year Trees. If people wanted to celebrate Christmas, they had to do it in secret among their families. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, people were free to celebrate Christmas again.

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 The two main dishes for Christmas Eve were vzvar (made of boiled nuts, raisins, and honey) and Katia (a sweet porridge with nuts, raisins and honey). The sweeter and richer the Katia was, then the bigger the harvest would be for the coming year.

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There were 12 dishes traditionally served for Christmas - one for each of the 12 days between Christmas and the Baptism of the Lord. On the night before Christmas, Russians would eat according to fasts (there were two main types of Russian foods: those for fasts and those for the rest of the time).

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Desserts were also quite common in this Russian holiday, such as sweet prodigies, soufflés, and jams.

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                                                            Christmas In Russia

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                                                            Christmas In Russia

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