2006-12-16 12:43:44 · 3 answers · asked by JAIDEYSH 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
El Salvador? I think one big custom is that most families get down, lay on the floor and cover their ears when the drug runners are shooting one another in the streets. Not only do the families protect themselves, but the fireworks and sounds are terrific.
2006-12-20 07:17:37 · answer #1 · answered by cautiouscautious2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salvadorans, like most if not all Latin Americans, value family and put it first during Christmas celebrations. Family gatherings begin at about 7:00 pm (on Christmas Eve), when members start arriving at a determined home, mostly the grandparents. A must to bring along are fireworks, usually estrellitas which are used around midnight, when everything and everyone is in a festive frenzy with laughter and hugs for the birth of Baby Jesus.
Christmas may very well be the one time of the year when the whole family is together and "catching up" is in order. Friends drop in to spread good wishes and are invited to stay over for dinner, even if it is known that most are doing their "traditional route" through friends' homes before arriving to their own family's celebration. The Misa de Gallo or "Rooster Mass", which is the name for the Christmas Mass begins at midnight. Some families choose to eat before the Mass, others after it. On the way to Mass, it is usual to hear the loud noise of fireworks.
Dinner menus vary as does the times for dinner. Upper and upper middle class families may enjoy a more "Americanized" menu of turkey and ham, while traditional middle class and lower strata families may have chicken or even special homemade tamales.
Just before saying goodbye to the family, a tradition is to place the Baby Jesus figure as part of the Nativity Scene under the Christmas Tree. Even when the Nativity Scene may be set under the tree a month before, the figure is not placed until after midnight of this day, symbolizing that Christ is now born.
2006-12-18 15:06:40 · answer #2 · answered by Kaity 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a physically powerful chum is Salvadoran and it particularly is in actuality Catholic, apart from probable Los Posadas, it relatively is the "parade" of the toddler Jesus to the manger scene...this in many situations occurs on the church. we live close to a large Hispanic community and that they carry out this on the city previously Christmas. in any different case, community meals (they do no longer consume multiple turkey - my chum makes a stew with it) and circulate to Mass.
2016-10-15 02:19:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋