My family and I celebrate Christmas and gift giving every year without having to be forced in any way. From Christmas shopping, decorating the Christmas tree, making Christmas cookies, singing carols, and gift giving, my family and I have always followed the "rules. " We are motivated and influenced by society to acknowledge the Christmas holiday and act of gift giving because it is what our culture has been governed to do. Once the "language" of gift giving has been learned and enforced, it then becomes a necessity in society that people automatically follow without
Like Fourth of July we usually gather up the family to throw fireworks up to the sky. Only once has my family didn't celebrate anything because either our family was too far away or that we just were too lazy to get
By just experiencing what Christmas is lik in different perspectives, can change how a person sees things. Scrooge was able to see what Christmas was like for himself in the past, for other people in the present, and how he ends up in the future through the Ghosts that teach him to be appreciative. When I was in primary school, we were ordered to bring buckets and walk to a creek, fill it with water and carry it back to school to experience what it was like for those in 3rd world countries. Before this, I didn’t really acknowledge the struggles that people in these living conditions had to
On the actual Christmas day, kids would perform a Nativity skit to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. The whole congregation gathered on Easter and Christmas for services and fellowship. Congregants would invite their extended family members to come join the service on those days to share and celebrate Easter and
We set up everything, and just wait until Grandma, Grandpa, and Aunt Laura, and Malik, Cloud, Scott, and Gary to come over. Once they come, we give everyone our hugs; we play outside, watch football, eat, and have a great time. What is Thanksgiving to me? Well, Thanksgiving to me is when family comes together and spends the whole afternoon together.
The people that usually come is my aunt’s family, my grandpa, my other aunt, and my whole family. Me and my cousin from my aunt’s always play with nerf guns while everybody else is inside socializing. Soon after, we watch the football game, the thanksgiving day parade, and “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”. We first watch the football game because my family is really competitive so they love sports.
Part One – Christian Worldview In today’s world it is easy to become enchanted by worldly things. The deceptions that Christian’s allow themselves to believe (i.e. just this once, it’s not going to hurt anyone, I can handle it, I can stop whenever I want, etc.) come directly from Satan. There was a time when hearing a curse word or seeing too much flesh in a movie would be embarrassing; now it appears to be the norm and most Christians do not even bat an eye at such things any more.
The children then place the boxes under their beds. On January 6th, in the morning they wake up to find the presents in the box for them, or sometimes at the foot of the bed symbolic of the three gifts that were given to the baby Jesus by the Magi. Another wonderful thing about celebrating traditionally
and then they hold a street fair to celebrate Christmas and they get toys why the kids lie in bed waiting for Santa Claus? It is a custom to visit their family members and they will play games and have lot’s of and eat food and some of the food is roast chicken, rice, and gungo peas. The drink that they drink is red tea and this is how you make it herb, with steep hot, then cooled and mixed with ginger, and then you put sugar with white rum and that is how you make red tea. The things that my country does is that they throw a humongous per radius and they make it about Santa Claus and instead of Santa on his savage slay and going around giving kids presents and they do floats too. They also do this they do shows that represent Christmas and they play the song to
The holidays I have celebrated since I was born have been Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving. I celebrated these because I grew up in a primarily christen household, and to quote my dad “they were fun traditions our parents did with us.” Not much else to look into. Each year we would run down stairs, be told which gifts where from Santa, they were in a separate pile, and which were from Mom and Dad. For Easter we would go to my aunt 's house and hunt for eggs in her yard.
Listening to the fireworks booming in the background, our family holds each other close as we begin a prayer. Most prayers involve talking to God, but this is not the way our family does it. To sum the prayer up in a nutshell, we pray for the prosperity of each family member in the upcoming year, but most importantly, we promise that no matter where we are on this beautiful day, our hearts will always stay with each other on New Year’s. Each of these aspects of my family’s New Year’s celebration has made a profound impact on my culture. Although our traditions may seem a bit odd, I would trade any of it for the world.
Although a Christmas in Italy was very different, I still had the same feeling of excitement as I do at home. A traditional Christmas for my family consists of four basic things; Waking up, opening presents, eating, and going to bed. After flying to the
This is what we do. I am going to talk about all of them. And explain what they mean to us in my culture. The food of my culture is really important to us because it is what Mexican like and it relates us who we are. In Christmas Day we have to be with the family and play games.
Growing up Christianity had always been part of my life and there was no question about it. My family was christian and the culture that my parents grew up in was heavily religious. However, I personally never had a true connection to Christ at a young age. To me church was the place I went to answer questions in Sunday School and win prizes for it, and that was how I saw it for a long time. It was hard for me to see it has more than that and from the outside I may have looked like the kid had a true connection with Christ by the way I talked in front of the church when my class presented, or the fact that I was able to answer most if not all the questions correctly.
For the most part, the individuals in my family are on top of our rituals. Every year between Black Friday and Christmas time my family and I go to different malls to seek out all of the great discounts. The holidays always have a unique spot in our hearts because we know this is the time of year we can be able to be all together and enjoy the special days together. There are certain ways families celebrate their own rituals and the way that my family and I highlight every holiday (Galvin 119). Lately, this ritual has been slowly dying, but I hope we can have this interest in the future when I have a family on my
