Origins Of 14 Christmas Traditions, Explained
This year, understand why you celebrate the way you do.
Many Christmas traditions' origins have been inaccurately rewritten to reflect a Christian narrative. But Christmas is celebrated in the U.S. through a hodge-podge of different cultural histories, as evidenced by the following 14 traditions….
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