friday, december 8, 1978
daily nebraskan Christmas supplement
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"Christmas is pretty similar to the U.S.
except that Santa Claus gives us presents
personally on Christmas Eve instead of
putting them in socks," he said.
The Swedes go to church very early on
Christmas morning and then have a special
Christmas dinner including a "smorgas
boord", big ham, "lutfisk", herring and
reindeer meat.
"Oh yes, Santa Claus eats oatmeal cereal,
too, not cookies," Jor:son said. New Year
celebrations are about the same.
Christmas Eve day is the main holiday
in Finland. Hellevi Kojo-Austin, a sopho
more sociology student from Helsinki said
the festivities begin at noon when the na
tional radio stations declare Christmas
peace, the stores close and the Christmas
tree is brought into the house.
They spend the afternoon in the Christ
mas sauna, which is made very hot for
Christmas, she said.
The dinner, held at six o'clock features
a whole pig cooked overnight, rutabago
and potato casseroles, rice pudding and
soup with dried fruits.
"Whoever finds the almond in the rice
pudding is supposed to get married that
year," she said.
Santa Claus, who supposedly lives on a
Santa Clans . . .
Give yourself a
mountain in Finnish lapland, comes to the
homes about eight o'clock to give presents
to the children.
Kojo-Austin said she misses the family
traditions she is used to in Finland and
mentioned the commercialization in the
U.S. In Finland, most of the gifts are hand
made and inexpensive.
New Year's is a time for a lot of drink
ing, fireworks, speeches and parties, she
said.
A Nigerian Christmas is celebrated
mostly outdoors, said Godfrey Edoziem, a
graduate student in education administra
tion from Owerri.
Since the weather is sunny and dry,
people hold dances and plays in the streets,
he said. The Christmas dinner consists
mostly of rice, chicken and other good
meat that each can afford, Edoziem added.
Santa Claus is called Father Christmas'
and gives gifts, such as a penny, to children
in supermarkets. With those exceptions,
Christmas is much the same as in the U.S.,
he said.
New Year's is a different story. At New
Year's, everyone gets rid of their garbage,
Edoziem said. It's traditional to throw gar
bage in the streets at midnight to symbo
lize the New Year is coming and the old is
gone.
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Why would anyone want to be a Santa
Claus? According to Clayton Schnell, a
local department store Santa Claus, he be
came a Santa Claus because he "enjoys kids
and enjoys talking to them."
Children must enjoy talking to Santa
Claus because Schnell estimated that he
talks with 70-75 children a day. Of course
not all children are anxious to sit on
Santa's lap. Schnell said that some children
are afraid of him and won't. But this is no
problem for Schnell. "If I can get the child
ren on my lap, I can get them to talk,"
Schnell said.
He said that there are certain gifts that
boys ask for and certain gifts that girls ask
for. "The girls usually want one of the new
dolls on the market and the boys usually
want racing sets or one of the space
games," Schnell said.
Schnell said, "one boy got off my lap
and went over to the toy department to get
a truck he wanted. He then brought the
truck to me so I could see exactly what he
was talking about."
This year is the first year that he has
been Santa Claus in a department store.
"Before, I was a Santa for churches and
schools," Schnell said.
He commented that he did not attend
any classes to become a Santa.
"I learned everything on my own."
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