Celebrating Christmas In The United States

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In the United States the culture is different from the one of Mexico. When it is Christmas in Mexico you go to people house and sing to get food. This is called Las Posadas. This is between December 16 through 24. We celebrating the journey that Rose Mary and Joseph had to do from Nazareth to Bethlehem for a search of were to give birth to baby Jesus. Here in the United States is very different. So we should show them another way of celebrating Christmas. They is a lot of ways our culture can become one and believing in this, working hard, and not giving up cultures and believes can mix. Just like Rose Mary and Joseph did not give up in finding a place to give birth to Jesus, I will never give up also. Also The Virgin Mary is and will always

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