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i celebrate deepavali by lighting up candles and placing them all around the house, as deepavali is a festival of lights.
we also go to the temple in new clothes and pray.

i like how we get to share this event with close friends and family.

yes its from my culture and it is significant as it celebrates a tale in hindu history and how the light will always defeat the dark.

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I enjoy celebrating Chinese new year as I get money from ang paos.
Uh and eating coins from dumplings give dophamine boosts.
I celebrate with my family. We have competitions over who gets the first coin. We also watch the broadcasting of the Chinese New Year festivals from the big TV and that's the only time I'm legally allowed by my family to stay up.

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- i enjoy this festival as i can spend time with my loved ones

- I usually celebrate it with my relatives and my family members

- yes this festival belongs to my culture

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why do i enjoy: can eat a lot of good food + hongbaos

who do i celebrate: my family/relatives/family friends

why its significant: besides my family and relatives, other houses that i visit aren’t regular so CNY is one if the only times where everyone can meetup and catch up with one another

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-i can spend time with my family and friends
-its a reunion with my extended family ( i dont see them alot so its fun when i do)

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I love having reunion dinner with my family and receiving red packets from relatives. Being able to spend time with my family by watching television or playing cards are also a plus point. I celebrate this festival with my family, relatives and friends and it is significant to me because I get to see my family after a long time and we have lots of fun together. Yes, this festival belong to my culture.

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Its fun.

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Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights and gift giving is associated with it so the =festival might be associated with the Christian celebration  of Christmas however t is not related in any way :)

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I enjoy eating the foods and play with the firecrackers.
I celebrate Deepavali with my family.
This festival belongs to my culture and i really enjoy it as we get to spend quality time with our family.

Is there any specific food that signifies something in the Chinese culture?

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i enjoy the festival because i get to spend time with my family and see relatives i may not have seen in some time. i celebrate Chinese New Year by having reunion dinners and playing with sparklers etc.

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I enjoy this festival as I get the opportunity to meet my cousins and relatives to bond with them. I get to invite my relatives to my house and I find it a memorable experience. I also enjoy eating Indian food with my family members and relatives.

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what do u do during hari raya?

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I enjoy this festival because we can enjoy the spirit of giving and generosity and spend time with loved ones. I celebrate this festival with my family and friends and its significant because it marks the day of Jesus birth for us Christians. My religion is Christianity so it belongs to my culture.

How do the Jewish celebrate Hanukkah traditionally?

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it’s a time i seek for forgiveness and repent . it’s also a time i can bond better with my family and see my distant relatives that i’ll only get to see once a year. the food is also something significant to me as i don’t eat it everyday. Yes, this festival belongs to my culture

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i celebrate christmas by giving others gifts but by thoughts. we also light up the christmas tree in my house, invite friends and have a tiny gathering. we spend time together like watching movies at home, play monopoly and eat dinner together

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i like how we can receive gifts from families and friends.
i celebrate it with my family (friends sometimes) and i have made very fun memories opening christmas gifts. chirstmas belong to my culture. :)

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We get a lot of gives from friends and family. I celebrate it with my friends and family. This festival culture does not belong to my culture but i like it because there are many events on that day

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i like this festival because i like the spirit of cny, its nice to see all my family members and relatives together in one house (before covid). usually on the first day of cny, in the afternoon most of all my relatives would come to my house to have lunch together and “reunite” together. in the evening my immediate family would visit my uncle’s house to have dinner

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I enjoy having reunion dinner with my family and the time that we spent together because usually we do not have the time to sit together and eat. We can then connect again and know more about what they have done ! And yes! This festival belongs to my culture.

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I enjoy this festival because i get extra gifts from my family and we get to decorate the house with a mini tree. I celebrate christmas with my family, but sometimes i exchange presents with my friends during christmas. Its significant to me because i get to celebrate another festival with my family. This festival does not belong to my culture, but my family still celebrates it because we each get extra presents.

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- celebrate it with my family
- yes it does
-i enjoy it because i can eat good food and spend time with my family

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I celebrate deepavali by lighting up clay lamps and we wear new clothes and go to the temple in the evening. i usually spend it with my family members and my relatives

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i enjoy bc i can eat a lot of food , play with fireworks and get hongbaos so i can get rich 😍😍😍😍 /hj

i celebrate with my relatives in malaysia and its significant bc its fun and i get to spend time with them

this festival velongs to my culture

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i like chinese new year as i can get money from my elders and give them mandarin. i can also have a reunion with my relatives and meet with them. i can also make abacus seeds with my grandma.  watch lion dance
i usually spend it with my relatives who i dont see often
it is in my culture

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i enjoy this festival because this is the time where the whole family gather together for a long period of time just to talk to each other. it allows us to bond with each other. i also enjoy the chinese new year treats because we only get to eat it once in a year. i celebrate this festival with my family and extended family. we get to see relatives that we rarely visit. this festival belongs to my culture.

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I enjoy this festival as I get to learn more about the chinese culture at that time.

I celebrate this festival with my Chinese friends.

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1. i like the vibes of the family reunion and how happy everyone is. i also like the traditional food that is cooked by my mother or at the different houses because we only cook it once a year at that time as it is very troublesome to make

2. i celebrate it with my family, relatives and extended family and it’s significant because we get to celebrate the end of the fasting month

3. yes, this festival belongs to my culture

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i like eating reunion dinner with friends and relatives and that we get to receive red packets
i celebrate with my family and relatives and we get to have conversations and catch up with each other

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I enjoy Deepavali as my mother makes and buys many types of sweets that time of the year. It’s more enjoyable as i spend it with my family. One of my favourite parts of the festival is using fire crackers

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what do people do in Hanukkah?

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I received a lot of presents from my family and I get to eat a lot of food

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i enjoy this festival because we get to enjoy different varieties of food like briyani, curry , vegetables and more. moreover you get to dress up in your favourite clothes. also your relatives comes over and its so fun playing and lighting up fire cracker with them. when you do this activity with them you feel really happy. i celebrate it with my friend and family and its significant because the greatest memories are made during deepavali. yes this festival is part of my culture. one question what do you do during lunar new year.

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What is the importance of celebrating Hari Raya Puasa?

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Onam is originally celebrated in the Southern part of India, in the state of Kerala. Most of the Malayalis, who are the minority in Singapore, celebrate this festival. This festival is used to commemorate the appearance of the legendary King Mahabali who fought a lot for Kerala’s freedom. I don’t celebrate this festival in my culture. However, I have attended this celebration in my Malayali friend’s home in Singapore. We listened to the the traditional songs of Kerala and ate their traditional food which consisted of Puttu( kind of a rice cake), Banana pieces. It was known as Onam Sadhya and the food was really tasty.

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because we get to eat good food and get ang bao
i get to gather with my relatives and parents
it is significant because it is celebrate once a year and we believe in different things like staying up late so that my parents live longer

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it is nice to have reunions with relatives that we have not visited in a long time through reunion dinners and house visitings. (lao yusheng and red packets too) i also enjoy eating the LNY snacks such as bak kwa, love letters, pineapple tarts that we share with around with family.
i celebrate with family, distant relatives and cousins.
this festival belongs to my ethnic culture.

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also the lights set up in little india for deepavali are really pretty and my family goes there specially to look at them n eat !!

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I enjoy this festival because I get to receive gifts and have Christmas dinners, even though I’m not Eurasian. I used to also enjoy putting up the Christmas tree when I was younger.

I usually celebrate it with my family. But, Christmas dinners are  sometimes celebrated with my parents’ friends. It is significant to me not only because I receive presents for free, but also because it is an opportunity to bond with others over Christmas dinners.

Christmas does not belong to my culture, but my family still celebrates it since we get to meet up with close friends. The excitement of receiving presents and joy from meeting up with friends makes Christmas really fun! :)

What are some significant rituals done during Hari Raya?

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The swet pongal and waiting for the milk to boil and rise
Having a variety of food for breakfast

In India:
Feeding the cows and decorating them( especially painting their horns)
Celebrating and cleaning the house with my relatives AND the Rangoli
It belongs to my culture and oh my family used to own a indian sweet shop and all my uncles know how to make delicious sweets.

How the EXACTLY celebrate sankranti in Maharashtra ( North India

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In the morning, we will wake up early in the morning and change into new clothes and shoes and go to relatives house to exchange oranges and red packets. We will also eat chinese snacks and eat steamboat we will also lao yu sheng while saying good luck wishes.

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i love money/angbao :D also it’s fun to meet my friends, cousins, families and play games with them. that one bit of time where we dont need to worry about anything (eg grades) and just have fun!

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I enjoy this festival as I can visit my relatives and spend time with my family.
I celebrate this festival with my family members and relatives.
Yes this festival belongs my culture.

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I get to visit relatives and my parents would buy a lot of Chinese New Year goodies. I get to receive angbao from adults and elderly. Many shopping sales are going on and I love how malls and shopping centres are decorated with many bright colours decorations. I can stay up late without my parents scolding me. Many old movies and shows are available.
I celebrate with friends, family, relatives.
Yes. It is from my culture and it is significant as people come back home just to celebrate this special festival with their family. It signified a brand new year for us to forget all the bad things and start afresh.

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- we celebrate this over four days, and there are many activities to do. For example, on the first day, we throw unwanted things away and on the second day, we boil the milk and let it overflow to show our gratefulness to the sun for giving us food to eat, and also to animals as they kept us with our agriculture too. We also offer the treats we hand-make to the god before we eat as we think that the god must always eat before us.
- I celebrate it with my family:)
- yes, this belongs to my culture.