[ SECRET POST #2169 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2169 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Seven)

[(Anonymous)]

Well there's Chrismukkah (Christmas/Hanukkah)...but I think calling it that's kind of jokey and not widespread.

A lot of interfaith families do celebrate both, though; Jon Stewart (of the Daily Show, who's culturally Jewish) does a riff about how he and his Catholic wife try to get their kids involved in both holidays, but the kids are so much more interested in Christmas (with Santa etc) and Hanukkah can't really compete.

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Seven)

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, who would want presents from some old house-invader over 8 days of presents, chocolate, money, and fried food?! I just don't get why kids are so into Santa!

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Seven)

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's the fact that you're allowed/expected to ask Santa for specific stuff and he's supposed to bring it? And the ~mystery of it showing up? The whole anticipation of the night before? IDK.

The one day of presents vs. eight days thing seemed like common sense to me as a (Catholic) kid, but all my Jewish friends led me to believe that they were relatively small gifts for the most part (maybe one big thing on some particular day). I'm Mexican raised in the US, so I also got stuff on Three Kings' Day, though.

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Seven)

[(Anonymous)]

The Christmas Equals Big Presents is a cultural thing, too, though. I never learned to be excited about Christmas because I always got "non-presents" like socks and underwear. Then when I was seven, I went to a Hannukah party and ate latkes and kugels and was like, "GOOD GOD THIS IS THE BEST HOLIDAY EVER WHY DOESN'T EVERYBODY DO THIS".

tl;dr If Santa's bringing you an xbox, yeah, nothing can compete. But if Santa's bringing you long underwear, eight days of tasty food and small legit gifts look absolutely amazing.