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That's funny. Sometimes we're quite irrational. We're still primates in some aspects (I mean no offense to Swedish, we all have strange traditions in our countries)
out of curiosity, what about this strikes you as a quality specific to primates?
People are focused on cooking dinner and/or getting ready for the Christmas parties, it's not weird that some different customs will come up at that time.
Why is this bizarre? Most countries seems to have traditions relating to seasons. In the UK It's a Wonderful Life and The Snowman are iconic and broadcast every year. Japanese traditionally eats KFC at Christmas. I'm sure most countries have quirks like these. They are harmless, they create a sense of togetherness and humans in general likes traditions and rituals. Considering how big especially Donald Duck is in Sca…
40 years later, he's bloody sick of it.
“I was fed up with it years ago. I’m even more fed up with it now it’s been going on for nearly 40 bloody years.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/21/raymond-briggs...
In Poland, we have a "bizarre TV tradition" of watching Home Alone during Christmas on one of the main TV stations (Polsat). Usually Home Alone 2 is played the next day. One year the station wanted to play a different movie during the holiday season and people wrote petition to bring it back.
One that I used to watch every year on cable TV here in Brazil when I was a child (you can guess I'm not that old) is "Jingle all the Way"[1]
Every year. Don’t know why or if it’s still true (not living in France)
Why is this bizarre? Most countries seems to have traditions relating to seasons. In the UK It's a Wonderful Life and The Snowman are iconic and broadcast every year. Japanese traditionally eats KFC at Christmas. I'm sure most countries have quirks like these. They are harmless, they create a sense of togetherness and humans in general likes traditions and rituals. Considering how big especially Donald Duck is in Sca…
We have the same tradition in Norway, probably stole it from our neighbours.
I'm Norwegian too, and remember watching it on a Swedish broadcasting channel when I was a kid. We had two channels, the Norwegian state funded broadcasting channel, and the Swedish state funded broadcasting channel. Good times!