sort of a dumb post, but the question about decorations/traditions is kind of legitimate
I live in argentina, the christmas decorations here are basically the same as what you see in the U.S. it feels pretty silly, because summer has just started and it's 85-95 degrees every day now
Will spend Christmas day at the beach with a forecasted high of 100 degrees. A Christmas dinner of prawns, lobster and oysters. Yea it's a bit different from the Christmas I grew up with in Virginia but I also get 6 weeks off from work this time of year.
It's not just Australia... the rest of Oceania, the caribbean, most of South America and Africa, Southern Asia. All celebrate Christmas in summer weather.
There is actually a whole other world out there that isn't just the States.
True, but 90% of people live above the equator, not just Americans. Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Europeans, Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, etc. All of us celebrate Christmas during the cold season. Aussies and the rest of the people living below the equator are very much the odd ones out.
Just because we live above the eqautor does not mean it's cold... Most places I mentioned don't have a cold season. They have a wet and a dry season and it is warm all year around.
It's not just Australia... the rest of Oceania, the caribbean, most of South America and Africa, Southern Asia. All celebrate Christmas in summer weather.
There is actually a whole other world out there that isn't just the States.i
True, but 90% of people live above the equator, not just Americans. Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Europeans, Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, etc. All of us celebrate Christmas during the cold season. Aussies and the rest of the people living below the equator are very much the odd ones out.
There are a lot of places north of the equator where it is hot year-around. Most of SE Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, much of India and South Asia, West Africa etc. In fact, 75% of the world's population lives in the "Global South", mostly in warm weather climates.
All these "venomous not poisonous" people would probably lecture someone dying of a poisonous rattlesnake bite. As the circulatory system starts failing and the poor victim says "damn that poisonous snake," these people will wag their finger "VENOMous snake."
interesting, does this "samtsirhc" involve Australia's famous poisonous snakes? Part of my OP, still unanswered.
All that has been answered so far is they go to the beach and eat seafood, which I find strangely pathetic. Why are you not celbrating your famous poisonous snakes and kangaroos, in addition to koalas? tia.
interesting, does this "samtsirhc" involve Australia's famous poisonous snakes? Part of my OP, still unanswered.
All that has been answered so far is they go to the beach and eat seafood, which I find strangely pathetic. Why are you not celbrating your famous poisonous snakes and kangaroos, in addition to koalas? tia.
Koalas are sadistic animals.
They'll often squeeze the venom from a snake's fangs, store it in a flask, then use it to poison the drinking water at campsites.
It's not just Australia... the rest of Oceania, the caribbean, most of South America and Africa, Southern Asia. All celebrate Christmas in summer weather.
There is actually a whole other world out there that isn't just the States.
Now that winter solstice is upon us, and I ponder how it is summer solstice in Australia, I wonder how they spend summer on their desert continent.
And then it strikes me, they probably have Christmas right after their summer solstice.
How do they do this? Obviously it makes no sense to have snowmen and reindeer. It must be completely different! A holiday of sand and spiders and poisonous snakes. And kangaroos should figure into it somehow, I'm sure.
