SpiritParticle wrote:Christmas in western culture doesn't even have anything to do with Jesus anyway(or solstice for that matter). It's strictly a cultural holiday, celebrating materialism, and consumerism(real American values). Jesus, on the other hand, was an avid promoter of extreme simplicity, and the rejection of materialism.
This is America, damnit! ###$ Jesus, ###$ Solstice! Let's worship money and $#%^ we don't need!
(note the sarcasm of that last bit)
Well in that case it again seems that Poland is sitting somewhere between the east and west. Here we also buy presents, but its nothing like the spending fever I hear about from people in western countries. I buy some earrings for my grandma, a fancy scarf for mum a book for my dad and that's it.
Here its mostly about a big feast on Christmas eve, the largest eating party of the year. I spend most of the week before christmas on preparing various dishes for the party rather than buying presents. Everything from pickled mushrooms through borshch soup, fried fish up to coocked cabbage, the famous "Carp fish in jelly" (I'll prolly be the one to kill the carp, its became something of a tradition that it is me that kills the fish in my family), compote, leverpostej and many, many other dishes.
So I'll probably spend christmas siting, eating and listening to my family chatting about various things. Not eaxactly something that bothers me.
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