How do people celebrate Christmas and the festive season around the world? A Santa in Osaka, Japan, where Christmas is celebrated with buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Photo: Shutterstock
One of the questions my six-year-old daughter has begun to ask concerns Santa Claus. How does he manage to deliver all those presents to the world s children in a single night? Luckily, she already knows the answer: a combination of magic reindeer, an ability to scale the insides of chimneys at warp speed and a deft negotiation of international time zones.
Another new question this Christmas is: do people across the world celebrate Christmas in the same way? Right now, she thinks eight billion people celebrate like she does, eating their weight in advent calendar chocolate, singing Jingle Bells over and over until you think no other words exist, and dropping none-too-subtle clues about what should drop down our own chimney come Christmas Day.