What Is Cristmas A Tradition?

In my culture traditions are very important in your life. For example, one tradition that has been in my family for many years is going to the park and celebrating Easter with the family. We barbecue, play sports, and then at the end of the day we have an Easter egg hunt for the young children. Another tradition of ours is to do a Christmas Eve dinner at my great grandma’s house. During this event you are with your relatives and close friends for dinner and for a social gathering until the early morning of Christmas day. Many of our traditions revolve around getting all of our family together and spending time with them.

In Bolivia, Christmas, called Navidad in Spanish, is a two week holiday from December 24th till January 6th. Bolivia is a more religious country, especially when it comes to Christmas because 81% of the population is Catholic and almost 14% is Protestant and Evangelic.

What does your family want from you in terms of traditions that you are expected to uphold on account of your ethnic background?

Christmas can have many meaning to different people depending on how they interpret it. However, if looking at the Christian aspect of it. The

This paper espouses that the current family gathers is a ritual that stabilizes and strengthens the family and provides a platform for building formidable bedrock for future

Each year my family celebrates Christmas eve by making a lot of tamales and lots of food for the whole family, my cousins and uncles and aunties come over to eat and to have a good time. once the clock gets to 12:00 all the kids open their presents and after every kid has opened their present now its the adults turn to open their present. However the adults do secret Santa and after we are done with all that we get to go to sleep. On Christmas day we dont really do much besides eat the leftovers from Christmas eve and talk about the type of presents that we got for Christmas. The thing that I dont like about it is that they make too much tamales and we are stuck with eating tamales for like a week and that when we open our presents on Christmas

This ritual has been diminished in the current age due to television. Family rituals are being replaced by TV shows. Rituals gives us security, they are dependable. They go from generation to generation. It should be celebrated, but who has time for that?

Is there a family get-together that everyone attends? Do you and your family have certain rules about eating together? Are you allowed to be on your phone? Or do you all hang out on a sunday together? Culture is what brings so many families close together.

According to the book “Ritual for Our Times” which was co-authored by Janine Roberts, All human cultures across time have created rituals, bringing family members together to celebrate, welcome, honor, or mourn.

Christmas is the annual festival celebrating the birth of Jesus on the 25th December, at least that is what it began as initially. Since it has expanded into an international phenomenon for consumption, taking priority over our everyday practices of life (Michel De Certeau, 1980). Our time we spend divided between work and leisure in accordance to the codes and conventions of society shifts, Christmas derails these expectations. Yet surprisingly Christmas gains little attention in terms of social research, despite the fact that it can be explored diversely. The inquiry ‘What is Christmas?’ links to multiple aspects of social research. The aspects of Christmas can be subdivided into the following; religion, commercialism, gift-giving, social relationships, sensualism and mythology. This essay will analyse these fundamentals of Christmas through both psychological and sociological perspectives, as the theories among these two social sciences are best suited to the elements which make up Christmas itself.

Without it, we would always act the same. Not many people would be different. The traditions we bring help other people be different. We learn from each other and find something new that’s fun. Traditions show what was important to others before us, which helps the new generations learn more about themselves, and where they came from. Sometimes it can be a very weird tradition, but every activity has a certain meaning that most times people don't get, beliefs are almost the same way. My family likes to be very religious, and sometimes I don’t enjoy it. The way I like to enjoy things like traditions is to know my past and to always embrace what I have. If we had not remembered the past through writing, or just the stories we tell through generations, we wouldn’t be different from each other. We learn from different cultures to find what our true selves are like. Maybe the person, learning the other culture, would like what they do or maybe even what they eat. We would make the same mistakes over and over again because the past isn’t past without the writings or stories. Traditions tell the stories we have to know to not forget the past, or the

So, communities around the country honored the day in different ways. Some observed Christmas as an important Christian religious day, honoring the birth of Jesus. Others celebrated the day with parties, music, drinking and eating. And, some communities did not celebrate the day at all.

All family functions were always fun, nothing stands out because they were all unique and great in their own way. In my culture family parties happen all the time. It’s a running joke ‘if a cat dies we will gather the family to celebrate its life’. We come together for anything. It’s always been whose birthday party we would celebrate or any occasion for that matter just to find something to come together for to eat, drink and party.

One of these is that on Thanksgiving everybody comes together to my parents’ house in New Jersey for a huge feast. On Christmas only my mother and the children (me and my brother) travel to Illinois to spend a week with my grandparents. On New Years Eve we all get together at my parents’ house in New Jersey and toast to the New Year with champagne and apple cider. During Labor Day weekend all of my family travels to South Jersey to my grandfathers’ condo. We usually spend all of our time on the beach and barbequing, except on Sunday when we go to church. After all, my grandfather is a minister. One of our biggest family traditions is going back to Puerto Rico. Every year my mother and I travel back to Puerto Rico for a portion of our summer vacation. Now that I am older I travel there more often and stay there much longer. My father never joins because he doesn’t like my mothers side of the father too much and he thinks that we when we speak Spanish we are all plotting against him. Of course that’s not true though. My bother doesn’t speak Spanish so he doesn’t like to go either. I guess that tradition is one that belongs solely to my mother and I.

Eating brings people closer together everyday, and for everyone, there are important memories that have been created because of food. Whether it’s a formal dinner, or an informal picnic, there will always be special bonds between people because food was involved. We need to have traditions with food because they form and strengthen the bonds between us.