Looking in from the outside
Sometimes I like to imagine what newcomers to our country think of our traditions. For instance, someone returning to his home country far away might describe a Christmas tradition thusly - “They roll out a sweet dough and cut it into the shapes of men, or bells or stars or trees. Then they paint the shapes with colored frosting. Then they eat the shapes.”
Or
“They drag a tree into the house and put shiny decorations on it. Then, when it is dried up a prickly, they take all the decorations off and drag the tree back outside again. What quaint customs these people have.”
