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Zin5ki
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An avuncular, snow-bearded fellow offering bounties from an outlet festooned in red and white? Were it not for our social conditioning, I think even we would struggle to distinguish Kringles from Colonels. |
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RegSuzaku
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It's... not that different.
Except that cakes and illuminations are a much more formalized thing... Then again, I lived in what's probably the least Christian part of the Western world (Manhattan) so I wouldn't know what it's like for the rest of America, I guess... Oh, and there's Japanese lyrics to popular Christmas songs, including secular ones for songs like Silent Night. At an idol show I went to recently, they sang Jingle Bells and some other ones. |
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belvadeer
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Does anyone know how this bizarre trend actually caught on in the first place? |
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enurtsol
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Why do people eat KFC at Christmas in Japan? The short story of how Christmas in Japan become synonymous with a fast food joint.
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Roaring Sunset
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"piece on earth"
Yes, it is date night. |
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Roaring Sunset
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"piece on earth"
Yes, it is date night. |
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ThrowMeOut
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Man their Christmas sounds so nice. Here in the Americas Christmas has become such a bloated consumerist monstrosity that an evening of fried chicken, cake and maybe a hot date sounds sounds just quaint.
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EricJ2
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Like the "Christmas Date", it's mostly imported Western advertising-- Non-denominational seasonal images of couples snuggling in front of the fireplace made the Japanese think Christmas was "Early Valentines' Day without the chocolates", and KFC's seasonal-pitch ads for "Make Christmas dinner easier with a Family Bucket", for lack of any other cultural context, was taken too literally. And thanks to overexposed songs and outsourced stop-motion animated specials, Japan doesn't seem to be under the impression that Santa had more than one reindeer, and with an odd natural mutation at that. As for the "Christmas Cake", that's because no manly male in Japan wants to be seen eating ice-cream or sweet frilly pastries in public any other time of the year, so if it's once a year for tradition, well, that's okay. |
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Siegfriedl88
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listening too Linus' speech explaining what Christmas is all about each year puts me in a better mood..i detest black friday and what not, each year...all the stories people getting in fights over material goods, saving just a few bucks bleh |
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kinghumanity
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Not this bs again.
Christmas was not a Christian holiday. It was a Roman pagan holiday called Saturnalia, observed in late December. The Christians just injected their own themes later. Jesus wasn’t even born on Dec 25. We don’t even know the exact year of his birth, let alone the date; for what we know, he could just as likely been born on July 1.
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Blanchimont
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Well, if one is hellbent of suppressing a culture for your own, what better way to do it than appropriating one of their holidays as your own. Two birds with one stone. 
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ZiharkXVI
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varmintx
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The point was to be needlessly pedantic. |
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Northlander
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Japan basically made its own Christmas tradition, and I have a weird sense of respect for that, even if that means most Christmas episodes in anime doesn't really mean much to me personally.
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Ouran High School Dropout
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As an old-time fan, my first anime exposure to the KFC-Christmas phenom was in the opening episode of the All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku-Nuku OVA. "...And you can have all the chicken!" An entire bucket for one grade-school kid? Sweet deal--spoiler[that is, if you can set aside the fact that you and your dad are being chased by your psycho-mom's corporate goons, hellbent on recovering the combat android dad stole...]
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