I live in Finland and we do the same thing here.
Do you live in western Finland? I live in the east, and I don't remember ever seeing that.
Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)
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Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)
#32In the UK 'The Snowman' has become a bit of an institution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snowman#Animated_film
The fact that it ends with the boy kneeling, sobbing over the melted remains of his magical snowman friend explains a lot about why Britons are so cynical I think.
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#33Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)
#34My wife and I are in Barcelona at the moment, and yesterday we learned about Caga tió, or "Shitting log", Catalan's version of Santa Claus. It's literally a log with a smiley face.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal
Each family buys or makes their log and covers the rear with a blanket. Children then hit the log with sticks until it poos presents, often while singing one of several songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_N7-HXTlI
Certainly one of the highlights of our trip.
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#35Alright, so now it's time for weird Christmas things and things about weird Christmas traditions from Scandinavia, here's a (joke? yeah probably) video about some from Norway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50fA_7TbSI
I won't spoil it by saying anything more... enjoy
Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)
#36And for Iceland, via NPR...
Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world, with five titles published for every 1,000 Icelanders. But what's really unusual is the timing: Historically, a majority of books in Iceland are sold from late September to early November. It's a national tradition, and it has a name: Jolabokaflod, or the "Christmas Book Flood."
"The culture of giving books as presents is very deeply rooted in how families perceive Christmas as a holiday," says Kristjan B. Jonasson, president of the Iceland Publishers Association. "Normally, we give the presents on the night of the 24th and people spend the night reading. In many ways, it's the backbone of the publishing sector here in Iceland."
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/25/167537939/literary-iceland-rev...
Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)
#37It's also interesting that the segment has become a point of heavy discussion of political correctness and genderification and at this point has been censored in many parts
Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)
#38I live in Finland and we do the same thing here.
You happen to speak Swedish? My mother tongue is Finnish, and I had never heard of the Kalle Anka thing, but all my Swedish speaking friends said they have always watched it (and still do).
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#39It's also interesting that the segment has become a point of heavy discussion of political correctness and genderification and at this point has been censored in many parts
Yes, indeed.
Last year a bl*ck doll was cut, as the stereotype was frowned upon (the airhead blonde doll was kept, and the fat white men) http://www.thelocal.se/20121214/45080
and this year a feminist gender consulting agency counted 293 male vs 22 female characters in the cartoon, and the twitterati went through the roof.
http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/12/24/hejdlos-mansdominan...
Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)
#40It's also interesting that the segment has become a point of heavy discussion of political correctness and genderification and at this point has been censored in many parts
Yes, indeed. Last year a bl*ck doll was cut, as the stereotype was frowned upon (the airhead blonde doll was kept, and the fat white men) http://www.thelocal.se/20121214/45080 and this year a feminist gender consulting agency counted 293 male vs 22 female characters in the cartoon, and the twitterati went through the roof. http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/12/24/hejdlos-mansdominan...
They cut the blonde this year too, and the jewish stereotype.
But that particular scene is so full of political incorrectness, besides being a big sweat shop, I think if they cut all of it there would be nothing left :)
How many years until the chinese dolls go?