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20 American Christmas Traditions The Rest Of The World Doesn’t Understand!

Every country is proud of its own Christmas traditions – and takes them for granted. Yet there are massive differences even between nations that are close to each other (whether mentally or geographically) when it comes to Christmas. And as much as the rest of the world may be influenced by U.S. culture, Europeans in particular often find Americans‘ Christmas traditions strange.

Here are 20 U.S. Christmas traditions that aren’t common in other countries!

#1 Caroling

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#2 Putting up the Christmas tree

#3 Christmas twice?

#4 The pickle thing

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#5 Cards with our own pictures

#6 Literally everyone

#7 No limits

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#8 As seen in Bad Moms 2

#9 Christmas lights

#10 Patriotic Thanksgiving movies

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#11 Stilletos

#12 Royalty

#13 Mother-in-law

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#14 Hot cacoa

#15 Cookies

#16 Why not use Social Media?

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#17 Ugly sweaters

#18 The Holidays

#19 Too much to handle

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#20 Starting shot

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