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Mexican Christmas traditions combine spiritual rituals, ... where friends and family dress in their most extravagant sweaters, and the worst design wins. In Mexico, however, ...
No holiday brings the Mexican-American community together like Christmas. Every year Las Posada, the 9-day celebration, takes over the hearts and minds of many people of Mexican descent in Los ...
For many Mexican-Americans, the posadas are more than a holiday warm-up. They are the main event, evoking centuries of cultural traditions and serving as an antidote to commercialism.
The Nativity scene, rather than the yule tree, is the centerpiece of Mexican Christmas, but in most households the child isn’t placed in the manger until midnight on Christmas Eve, priests say.
Pick a word that means Christmas. Not tree, mall, wrapping or debt. Something along the lines of virgin, manger or swaddling clothes. OK, swaddling clothes is two words, and you can't find ...
Unlike gift sharing on Christmas Eve or Christmas in the US, her grandmother practiced the Mexican custom of placing gifts in their shoes on Jan. 6, El Dia de los Reyes/Three Kings Day.
Gustavo Arellano and his extended family celebrate Christmas Eve at his Tía Maria's house with a feast of epic proportions. O holy fiesta! A Mexican Christmas Eve - Los Angeles Times ...