Is Xmas pretty much over on the 25th for latin Americans and europeans?

[Distantconstellation]

I feel most eat their Xmas dinner the night of the 24th and open their gifts by 12am (25th) so by that point Xmas is pretty much over. In the states people open their gifts in the morning (25th) and eat a Xmas meal on that day. 

[ToxDust]

Yes, you wake up on the 25th and it's just another holiday.

[Dragonfly]

it's over at 10pm on the 24th

when my mother falls asleep

[KillingYourCareer]

No, the 24th is Christmas Eve and the 25th is actual Christmas in Italy

[M!X]

people in my country are Orthodox Christians so we celebrate it on the 7th of January

[Giancor]

Yep, pretty much

[pavi]

Not necessarily. Here in The Netherlands Christmas Day (the 25th) is an official holiday, but so is 'second Christmas Day' (the 26th). We also have two days of Easter and two days of Pentecost, which I believe is different from the US.

 

People here all celebrate differently. A lot of people I know actually celebrate Christmas for three days (Christmas Eve included). Since most of the country isn't religious anymore, it's often just dinner at different parts of the family.

 

For example I had Christmas dinner yesterday with my mom's side of the family, will have Christmas dinner tonight with my boyfriend's family and I will have Christmas dinner again tomorrow with my boyfriend and some of our friends

 

Not all people here celebrate with presents during Christmas, while some do. Especially families with young children often don't, since December 5th we already celebrate Sinterklaas: a holiday where a saint brings gifts. It's actually the saint Santa Claus was derived from

 

I think it just differs a lot per country, depending on the social function of Christmas and the amount of religious people. Might even matter if your country is catholic, protestant or both 

[Zaram]

25th & 26th are the holidays to visit the rest of the family here. But every family does it different tbh. Some just lay lazy around those two days.

[Last Boy on Earth]

Portugal: dinner on the 24th, open presents at midnight, go rest and then lunch until late on the 25th.

Edited December 25, 2022 by Last Boy on Earth

[Robert]

Everyone opens their presents and eats on 25th in the UK. I assume other Western European countries are similar.

[Khal]

1 minute ago, Robert said:

Everyone opens their presents and eats on 25th in the UK. I assume other Western European countries are similar.

This. First time I'm hearing about people eating and opening presents the night before.

[Istan4R]

Christmas Eve>>>>Christmas. Once Christmas Eve is over I’m looking forward to New Years (coming from Mexican in US)

[Distantconstellation]

17 minutes ago, Khal said:

This. First time I'm hearing about people eating and opening presents the night before.

Technically it's the 25th they just open gifts at 12am

[Escape]

Pretty much yeah.

[brainmaniac]

5 minutes ago, Distantconstellation said:

Technically it's the 25th they just open gifts at 12am

There’s no hard rule or tradition on when people open presents in the US though
 

Some people do it on Christmas Eve

Some people do it on Christmas Day

Its whatever day you feel like and if people open them on Christmas Eve, they don’t wait until Midnight either lol 

[Dante]

1 hour ago, M!X said:

people in my country are Orthodox Christians so we celebrate it on the 7th of January

same

[Hot Volcano]

Here Christmas days are on the 26th and the 27th aswell

[Badgalbriel]

3 hours ago, Khal said:

This. First time I'm hearing about people eating and opening presents the night before.

Not the night before. When the clock hits midnight it's already the 25th. That's when you open presents. 

[gustavothehuman]

Here in Brazil we do our celebrations in the 24th and usually hold a Secret Santa before dinner gets served at midnight. In the 25th the family gathers again for lunch. After that we're pretty much in a vacation limbo until New Year's Eve.

 

Edited December 25, 2022 by gustavothehuman

[ninasayers]

Yes, that's how it's always been for me here in Argentina. We celebrate during the 24th, open the gifts at 12, stay up for a few more hours and that's it. Some people might stay at someone's house and have lunch there on the 25th but idk how frequent that is. 

[vale9001]

For me christmas is the christmas eve when you go around for the last presents and there is a big dinner in the night.

The real christmas day is already a boring day. 

Edited December 25, 2022 by vale9001

[brazil]

4 hours ago, Last Boy on Earth said:

Portugal: dinner on the 24th, open presents at midnight, go rest and then lunch until late on the 25th.

Same in Brazil. 

[princedonte]

It was over for me in 2005 when my patents became a Jehovah Witness/Israelite combo.

[Cloudy]

In Spain Christmas is actually not ver until the 6th which is "Día de Reyes" or in english they three wise men and people open presents then and also have a big lunch

 

But we basically have Christmas Eve where everyone has big dinner, open presents (although some open them on the 25th) and then we have Christmas on the 25th and have a big lunch

Edited December 25, 2022 by Cloudy

[Kamil24]

No for Polish people it's Christmas season until January 6th.