RE: Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat
12-19-2013, 12:29 PM
Yeah! Japan has never been a Christian country, so it's an exclusively commercial thing with a uniquely Japanese twist on it. The day itself is a regular work day, and it's more often a day to go on a date or go out somewhere nice for dinner. "Eat chicken" and "eat/make christmas cake" is a lot more familiar to my students than anything along the lines of "Christmas dinner" or "unwrapping presents in the morning".
The chicken thing is unapologetic wholesale adoption of the holiday by KFC.
Christmas cake in Japan is strawberry shortcake; in England and New Zealand it's a fruitcake. This was something that surprised my kids when I explained it to them, too.
Culturally, the closest equivalent to our Christmas is their New Year. Most services close on New Years and there are religious trappings still observed by people who are into that kind of thing.
The chicken thing is unapologetic wholesale adoption of the holiday by KFC.
Christmas cake in Japan is strawberry shortcake; in England and New Zealand it's a fruitcake. This was something that surprised my kids when I explained it to them, too.
Culturally, the closest equivalent to our Christmas is their New Year. Most services close on New Years and there are religious trappings still observed by people who are into that kind of thing.
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow