Christmas traditions in North America

There are many celebrations in the United States that are associated with English and German immigrants brought the Christmas traditions. Along with the well-known and practiced tradition of a brightly decorated Christmas tree, other traditions brought by these immigrants include Advent calendars, Christmas cards, gingerbread houses and gingerbread cookies.

Christmas in the United States is still considered to be around family, travel, shopping and decorations.

family and travel associated with Christmas, the United States, because the family members often travel quite a long way to each other in one place. The growth of cities, which are mainly economic activity, suburbs residence, and the fact of different industries found in certain geographic locations, is one of the reasons why family members often live great distances from each other separate states.

Christmas holidays and a wonderful opportunity for this reason many members of the family to gather in celebration and see each other in an intimate setting. The traveling part makes the holiday season is a busy time of year for rail and air transport.

The occasion saw many family members at Christmas time is also related to the purchase of the activity that is an important feature of Christmas in the United States. The Christmas season officially begins on Friday after the Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday and which now ranks second in the Saturday shopping days before Christmas.

Many of the purchases, which happens to be buying gifts for friends and family. Gifts for family members are usually replaced after dinner on Christmas Day, when everyone gathers in the room where the Christmas tree. Gifts are usually stays the base of the Christmas tree in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

also exchanged gifts before Christmas workplaces held by the parties and friends held a party.

Second gifts, shopping is done at Christmas decoration. While the Christmas tree may be the main attraction, garlands, wreaths, candles and decorative lighting post

outside lawn or along rooflines also use it to look for a beautiful holiday homes.

Canadians enjoy Christmas activities that are similar to those celebrated in the United States. This is so because in the 1700s when some German immigrants in the United States traveled to Canada, continued the practice of many of the activities associated with Christmas. The geographical proximity of the two countries also means that a lot of things in common, such similarities Christmas traditions should not be an exception.

One thing to take into account the differences between the two countries, however, the Inuit population of Canada. Inuit in Canada and other winter holiday traditions that are missing from the American Christmas holidays.

The practice also exists in Scotland, where small groups of masked individuals around March about two weeks before Christmas. These masked groups attract attention by stirring a lot of bell ringing and engaging in a noisy caper goal is to candy, sweets and goodies onlookers.

This tradition bears some resemblance Jonkonoo celebrations of the neighboring islands of the Caribbean. Those celebrations also involve masked people, including some that appear on stilts to make it as tall as the trees. The parade of Jonkonoo regale onlookers various antics and present a minor scare some kids, who then settled down for chocolates and other treats.

Nova Scotia, onlookers may try to calm the noise and quarrels, just a little if they can figure out the identity of the masked man properly. If you correctly put an end to the noise as the mask is removed, exposing the individual. For their part maskers play nice friendly nudging answers to kids that they've been bad or good, and handing out candy and treats accordingly.

Source by Kevin Garland

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