Most Christmas symbols are in very similar today as the model American Christmas won the world thanks to the movies, consumerism and globalization. Each country added to its convenience of these topics of December and kept those whose native tradition was stronger than modernindad television.
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not in Catalunya have been immune to the incorporation of traditions strangers as you can be Santa Claus or Christmas tree, and more than one will think you are our because they have gained ground in recent decades. Shared with other Iberian regions was still magic of Kings ahead of Santa Claus imported although the fact that the three wise men came to the houses to deliver gifts on January 5 subtracts marketing tradition and today has more benefits for adults and children receive gifts at the beginning of the holidays, on Christmas Eve. At home Santa Claus never came down the chimney and learned to wait patiently for the epiphany, today, a parent, keep this tradition and the three kings arrive there where we are: Caracas , Panama or Barcelona.
But let us at first, before Christmas day we set up the crib, birth or Bethlehem, as everyone calls it, and in Catalonia the figures are adapted to our culture so that peasant figures main (child, Mary, Joseph, angels and wise men) have their own clothing of the Italian Renaissance iconography while the characters of ordinary people who come to worship the child are shepherds, hunters, loggers and farmers typically Catalan.
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Among them, highlights the incredible figure of "The Caganer , a farmer with the correct posture to defecate in a discreet corner of the crib, usually in a corner, covered in bushes. Appears in the seventeenth century and became popular with the renaissance of Catalan culture in the nineteenth century, now being essential part of any self-respecting crib, as God commands, is accepted by the church. It is argued good luck to the houses that place for that to "fertilize the earth" and it would seem that this symbol rural humor is not the result of "black" Catalan and the other great tradition of the Christmas night of our people have in the stool source of joy for children: Caga Tio, that sympathetic trunk with painted face that is fed by smaller throughout December for beating the shit stick gifts on Christmas Eve.
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Is this eschatological Catalan reason that Christmas is not "exportable"?. Anyway, for us is a national pride that we remember something important, all are equal before God and especially to our neighbors, "King shit, shit shit Pope and no one escapes" http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://www.to2blogs.com
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