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.

  • TheMurphy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

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

    • AnagrammadiCodeina@feddit.it
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      10 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?

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      10 months ago

      In Germany, we usually have presents on the 24th in the evening, but the big family gatherings are often on the 25th (and 26th, as you’re typically part of multiple families).

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        10 months ago

        Same in Denmark, but not everyone will do a traditional thing the 25th or 26th. Most will though.

        24th is very traditional.

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      10 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.

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        10 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.