Christmas is near and I was thinking of the different ways christmas is celebrated all over the world. This is how we celebrate chrsitmas in Sweden:
We celebrate on the 24:th. We don’t open the presents in the morning and we don’t have christmas stockings. My family however open one or two gifts in the morning and those usually contains the new clothes we’ll wear later that day. Nowadays that’s not all that exciting since I now get to pick out my outfit myself so it’s not like what I get is a surprise. 
Most people in Sweden eat a nice lunch and by 3 around 50% (offical statistics) of the poulation watch “Donald Duck and his friends wish you a merry chritmas”, a one hour show which is a mix of clips from various Disney movies. This is very traditional and it’s the second most watched tv show in Sweden. Imagine that, for one hour 50% of the swedish population watches the same tv-show. A cartoon.
After that most people eat a christmas buffé. Baked ham is for Sweden what turkey is for USA. Warm rice pudding is also important. Other traditional food is beetroot sallad (strips of beetroot with mustard maynoaise), lutfisk (lye-treated codfish), Janssons frestelse (casserole made of potatoes, onion, pickled sprats and cream), meatballs, sausage, pickled herring, gravad lax (raw salmon cured in salt, sugar, and dill), dopp i grytan (bread dipped in warm ham stock). Julmust (a soft drink only sold around christmas and easter) is the common drink. There are many variations of the christmas buffé and I of course eat my semi-vegetarian option mostly consisting of fish dishes and soy food.
After the dinner christmas presents are opened. They either lie under the christmas tree (in households without small children) or are delivered by someone dressed up as Santa Claus.
And that’s pretty much the swedish cristmas.
How is christmas celebrated in your country?
Welcome! You've found the the online home of a twenty-eight year old Swedish web designer, artist and blogger who goes by the name Angelica. The site consists of 558 MB words, photos and art. Please do take a look around.
Woah…we take like 10 or more major important exams in the space of a month…
Your so lucky to go to a swedish school, they sounds so more relaxed and give your more choice on what you want to do and etc…
Christmas in England…well its kind of a big thing since a lot of people here are Christians and so on…I’m not any religion really, but I love celebrating it a family gathering, Personally it is just to show how much you appriciate your family and freinds, nothing to do with Jesus and all that…but thats jut my opinion on my style of celebrating Christmas.
Lots of people have major tacky christmas decorations all over there house…inside and outside, so basically Christmas time for us is just like having blackpool eluminations on ever street…not so great
But everyone seems to be in high spirits, which is great
Katie x
I live in England and we celebrate it on the 25th November.
Most people, especially ones with children open their presents on the morning, but my family open them around 4ish after dinner. The presents are under the tree as well and people tell small children that some are from “Santa”.
A lot of people watch the Queen’s speech, but not as many as watch Donald Duck in your country, I don’t think at least. I tend to watch some Harry Potter film as there is usually one of them on TV.
The food is turkey with sausages wrapped in bacon, vegetables, yorkshirt puddings and stuff like that. A Christmas pudding for deserts afterwards, which are made of fruit and brandy. Also the meal is drank with a lot of alcohol in most families.
Also lights are placed on the Christmas tree and some people even decorate their houses with lights.
Can you give me that beetroot salad recipe? [I am serious].
For the holiday.. I am not Christian therefore I don’t celebrate christmas, but something you’d find weird is.. they way they celebrate New year in Russia.. [I'm originally Russian] they actually have a [christmas] tree with decorations and all for new year.. and of course there is Russian version for Santa.. people usually gather together and eat stuffed duck, chicken, salads, hot pockets, salty fish, rice.. and watch TV. they usually show new year’s movies [always same onces] and special new year’s programs. Usually only kinds get gifts under their pillow.. usually those are oranges and tangerines.. because they were hard to get in Russia..
Oh and I will add your link tomorrow.. I do want affiliates.. I(:
We don’t do the stocking tradition either. Usually we hear mass on Christmas Eve then wait til 12 midnight before we open our gifts. That’s pretty much it. Come Christmas Day, we hear mass again and it’s more of a family bonding time where we eat LOTS of food and celebrate
heey !
well in canada… we just do it how americans would do it, but in my family we go to church at 11 at night, then return home at 12. we’re usually able to open one of the “smaller” presents when we get home, but other than that we wait until the morning to open the rest. the second we all wake up we just go to the christmas tree, and wait until everyones awake, then we open the presents in age order of youngest to oldest. Usually after that, my brother and i watch ” A Christmas Story” & eatt our breakfast.
I appreciate the information about how you guise do it in sweden! There are some exchange students that I go to school with who are from sweden, so i’m going to get all in their face and be like numnum i want some dopp i grytan.. Haha
That is really interesting to see how it is celebrated in another part of the world. My family is not really traditional and pretty much do what we want.
I live in Australia and because the weather is getting very warm we usually have a rather simple mean, salads and maybe a bit of cold or hot meat depending on what has been decided. Then we open presents and do whatever we want with the rest of the day.
Hur kan du säga att vi inte dör x och y här?
Det är väl helt olika från familj till familj?
We open presents as soon as you wake up with the people you live with. Then you go to church. Then you get with the rest of your family. to laugh, talk, eat, play games, and open more presents
I love what you did with the layout!
Hmm our Christmasses are pretty much alike. On the evening of the 24th we go to my mom’s side of the family and have dinner, and on Christmas day we go to the other side of the family for the entire day and open presents. We don’t even have typical food or anything. Sounds rather boring haha.
My parenst fight and then my Dad passes out. Im not a fan of xmas. But love the new theme.
Mohammed – Jag har faktiskt läst på wikipedia och en massa andra sidor om svensk jul för att kunna skriva om det absolut vanligaste firandet. Vilket verkar gå till ungefär så här.
Awe my Mom gets me clothes too – but it’s not a surprise either, haha. But that’s awesome about how everyone watches Donald Duck :] Ham is pretty good – but i think i’d still rather turkey. :x My tradition is the same as everyones, watch The Grinch, eat & open presents!
heyyy!! i was wondering if you could possibly help me install WP, or walk me through the steps. =D
oh, and do u have msn or aim or anything so we can talk quicker =]
hmm, i dont know it is all over canada but i mainly just eat way to much food and spend money i don’t neccessarily have lol
i want my WP to be just like yours is.
ok, so i have it installed and im logged in and everything but im not sure how to show the news/blog on my site?
is there a code? lol
Yes it’s me
and very pretty new design ^^
Hey there!
Thanks for the comment, right i think the CSS looks O.K in firefox, i don’t have I.E so i can’t tell. I guess I should download it because majority of web designers have it :l
Anyway, D;
Same here, I’m Polish and and we do exactly the same thing o_O.
I tried to persuade my parents to blend it in with the English + Polish way so then I get to open the presents in the morning on the 24th xD
Michelle ^^
Most festivals here are not celebrated by everyone since there’s lots of different religions here. I for one, don’t celebrate Christmas, so I don’t know how it is celebrated here. xP
hey, nvm i got all that, im starting to get it.. and get all my codes n stuff into WP, BUT now i cant figure out how to make pages… i make them and the codes dont work in them, like i want to convert my me, goodies, site, and exits pages into WP because now that ive switched to WP my pages open in a different window and i want them to open on the same page, idk if u understand what im saying lol.. (i hope you do =D) i was wondering maybe i can use Iframes? no? and also, wth is up with my comment box… its not showing the “name, mail, website” box all it shows in the box to write stuff in like here? can you give me the code for too pleaseee- ok thanks alooooooootttttt babes!!! <33
wow swedish.
I’m filipino. we dont have those stocking stuff tradition either. some catholic filipinos have this midnight mass. for bornagain christians like me, we dont do anything. lol. we just eat nice food and celebrate at 24 in the evening until the clock strikes twelve and it’s christmas already! 
thats how we do it. 
ok love, thanks u are such a great help.. but i think ive decided to go back to option #1. #2 is way to much work, lol and i just dont feel like uploading my WHOLE site into wordpress… its just tooooo much. so i JUST want my blog installed to wordpress and put on my page. like how your site is, get me? buttt im not sure how to do this- thats why i went with option #2 at first because its the only thing i knew how to do…. sooo now that im going for option #1, what do i do… from the beginning. =D
p.s i added you to msn, but your not on! >.<
That’s really cute. It’s interesting to see how other countries celebrate certain holidays.
Warm rice pudding? Can I come and stay with you for Christmas? Mmmm! Mmmm!
I’m American so we celebrate it on the 25th. People usually open the presents in the morning.
And we have stockings. I usually watch some movie or something that’s on during the day, so we don’t really have any traditions there (lots of Americans do, though.) It’s interesting to see how other countries celebrate Christmas. I’d love to go to another country and celebrate it there one year. 
Turkey is the most common food like you said, though my family is not very traditional so we tend to eat anything we feel like.
We decorate our houses in the first week of December. We celebrate Christmas on the 25th, with gifts under the tree (: We don’t do anything unusual I guess. The only thing is that the children can’t decided whether Father Christmas or baby Jesus brings them presents… (:
And I love your new layout
Same here, people celebrate on Xmas eve. We all eat together in the evening, and open presents at that time as well. The usual food prepared here for Xmas are Quezo de Bola (cheese ball) and Ham cooked with sugar, because we Filipinos like our food sweet. XD That’s basically it. I think that Donald Duck show tradition is very unique and cool. XD
I know this isnt all families from PA (usa) but on Christmas eve we see our extended family. Do the whole gift thing and eat way to much. Then when we get home we usually open up a small gift. When i was younger it was usually a Barbie outfit from the dollar store. On christmas morning we all wake up around 11AM. And eat breakfast than break open the gifts. Grandparent arrive and we eat, then we argue. Then we watch the parades, and my grandpa falls asleep on the couch.
And that’s my usual christmas
I live in New York – I don’t know how most people celebrate, but I can tell you how my family does.
…We put up the (fake) tree a few days before-hand. On Christmas morning, I usually have to wake up my mom and her boyfriend cause they’ll sleep until noon otherwise. Make coffee, then open the presents (which are stacked underneath the tree.) while I insist on watching A Christmas Story on television, on repeat, for the entire 26 hours that it’s on. After presents, we make breakfast (french toast or pancakes or something) and put all the presents away… We used to have a big lasagna dinner, but we don’t do that anymore. After presents are done it’s pretty much over.
The Christmas traditions are disappearing for my family; we usually just attend midnight mass (clean the day off ) && open presents afterwards. We sleep on Christmas Day & then have a nice dinner.