Germany and the USA have surprisingly some big differences when it comes to celebrating Christmas and the Christmas time leading up for the holidays. Let’s discuss! =)
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00:00 – Christmas Traditions (Germany vs USA)
00:15 – Christmas Tradition #1
02:40 – Christmas Tradition #2
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17:15 – What are the holiday traditions for you?
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Anyways, what is your favorite Christmas Tradition? OR What do you eat for Christmas???
I have a REALLY unusual Advent Calendar! My kids grew up with the old versions (before chocolate!). I thought kids should get something better, so I wrote a book with a bedtime story for every day in Advent! It's called: The Girl Who Found Christmas: An Advent Calendar Storybook. My husband and I love your videos!
Tons of advent calendars in Canada. Super popular. Just noticed the pet ones this year.
It is a tradition to eat fish on Christmas Eve.
The qChrismas tree is from England.
Ja , Sinterklaas en zwarte piet komt door de schoorsteen om de kadoos voor de kachel te zetten
In Nederland is dit normaal
Advent calendar is very popular in eastern northern America advent candles are catholic.
Where in Germany is it tradition to eat turkey on Christmas day?
We always had goose
Im from Holland and we have these calanders since i was 1..😊
And we put up our xmas tree 6th of december till first week of jan
We always celebrated the traditional German Christmas!! On Christmas day my German mother would make two ducks, dumplings and red cabbage. After eating and clean up, we would eat the cakes, pies and yes with coffee!
My German family loved the American thanksgiving
We put up the tree after Thanksgiving, and took it down after Epiphany. (German/French-lineage Catholic American).
That's new to me that St. Nicolaus comes in advance… Since to me St Nicolaus is just another name for Santa Claus… A neighbour of mine that visits kids around the world on the night 24-25th of december. And what comes to eating er have fried Pork on Christmas, and wieners and potatosalad on new years day and at the 1st of May.
St. Nikolaus Day kind of sounds like the American way of hanging stockings, you fill them up with candy/toys and open them on Christmas Day.
What? We have advent calendars in the US, trader Joe's has the cheapest. I got a lindor truffle one a Fred Meyer, a tea one from world Market and an alcoholic truffles from trader Joe's, not their cheapest one though. All were so good!
Yes we always have advent calendars in the USA but my roots r German we had stollen, lubkucken, pickled herring
Der ursprüngliche Adventskalender ist ein Kartonblatt bemalt mit einem schönen gemalten Motiv und mit 24 Türchen hinter denen spezielle Motive gemalt sind.
Der Weihnachtsbaum wird erst am 24.12. geschmückt, keinesfalls früher und unter dem Weihnachtsbaum wird eine Krippe aufgebaut.
Never had a Advent calendar. From California, USA. Never heard of the boot thing on the 6th. Wait, there is a 2nd Christmas! We need to adopt this in the US.
We set up our tree on the 23rd ir 24th and put it donw on the 2nd of February (Maria Lichtmess)
I was raised in Fulda Germany and one of our traditions in our family was candles on the tree also instead of turkey we had a Christmas goose or Rouladen ,gravy , red cabbage with potato balls .
A blonde wrapped up in christma's paper pops out and goes ho ho and I go ha ha.
I'm in the US but my standard Christmas Day Dinner is Standing Rib Roast, Yorkshire Pudding, Potatoes and a vegetable. Of course gravy
We’re Episcopalian. We do advent calendars and advent candles. We make the wreath from our own greens from our trees and bushes.
Can you do an Easter video of German Lent and Easter traditions? I am German American (4th generation) and we always did Fashnact Kegels on Shrove Tuesday, we put up an Easter tree (dead branch covered with homemade ornaments), had a butter lamb at our Easter breakfast, and we always burned the stump of that year's Christmas tree in the fireplace on Easter Eve. Amazing that those traditions lasted so long in our family after immigrating, over 100 years, but it is probably because they are so much fun.Oh! And we don't decorate for Easter until after 3PM on Good Friday (when Christ died), it was considered very disrespectful to decorate before that.
Yes, Netherland had Advents calendars and here in Poland they have them too.
I celebrate st.nick but don’t put my boots out but I do have German in me
Advent season is a Christian season. Beginning four Sundays before Christmas. Advent enda on Christmas day. Then the Christian season season begins until January 6.
For my family (German) it's like this:
3 days or even on 24th we get and decorate the Christmas tree (there are no gifts under the tree)
24th December: we go to service, then our grandparents (dad's part of the family) come over and we eat (mostly wieners and potato salad). Then my parents disappear to "get something for the table" and close the kitchen door. After a few minutes a bell rings and we can come in the living room and there are a lot of presents under the tree. Before opening we have to sing a few songs.
25th December: we go to dad's part of the family at lunch, get some more gifts and eat deer with Knödel or Spätzle, salads, Kraut, Rotkohl and more. But there is no Kaffee und Kuchen. Only some singing and Cookies with Alkohol. Which writing now sounds like a weird mix to me.
26th December: We drive an hour to my mothers side of the family. We eat at a restaurant and then drive to my grandparents place where we get to open more gifts and eat Cookies with hot drinks (Coffee, Hot chocolate, Tea)
That's what my family does for Christmas