Spanish Christmas Research Paper

Spain is a cultural country that has many festivals , holidays, and religion. National festivals are most common throughout Spain. One of the most common one is La Tomatina in Buñol. The "show" does not begin until one courageous person climbs the greasy pole and grab the ham on the top. Even though no reaches the delicious ham, the fight still begins. This is one of the coolest things to experience because people throw tomatoes at each other for an hour, but rules still applied. Some of the rules were that no bottles to be thrown, can't chuck the tomato unless you crush it first, and have to stop throwing tomatoes after the second blast. Unfortunately, this all changed because there were a lot of people compacted in, the small town, Buñol during this …show more content…
One of these examples is Christmas. See Americans think that Christmas is gifts and Santa Claus, but in Spain its a different idea. In Spain, the Christmas season runs longer. It runs about twelve days. On Christmas Eve, most families eat dinner before they go to the midnight mass. The traditional Spanish dinner is turkey stuffed with truffles. After mass, people have lit up torches and go on the street singing. The American tradition of Christmas is to have all the gifts given on Christmas, but it is different in Spain."Children have some presents on Christmas Day, but most are opened at Epiphany"(Christmas in Spain 1). Also, traditionally there is no such thing of Santa Claus. Instead, the children are supposed to believe that the three wise men come and give gifts for them. A traditional American child is supposed to believe that Santa Claus comes with his good trusty reindeers and gives gifts to everyone in the world. Well, that is impossible to do. The similarities are they both leave food for the "delivers". In short, these two cultures have different views on holidays and also have different types of