Christmas differentces of 2 countries:England and Estonia
People
in the countryside bring straw into the house, they decorate their homes and bring in
fir-trees. The traditional Christmas flowers are hyacinth, Christmas cactus and the
poinsettia. Differentce from the English people decoration is that their decarations are
from paper, they have electric lights, also have evergreen plants: holly, mistletoe and
ivy. They bring a huge fir-tree from Norway on Trafalgar Square.
Thirdly, from the activities there is one similaritie, Estonian and also English people
send Christmas cards, but the differents of these cards is that Estonian people cards
are with winter pictures and Father Christmas, English people send cards mostly with
religious pictures. Big differents of activities is that English people go to Carol
Services and peform Nativity plays. A traditional feature of Christmas afternoon is the
Queen's Christmas message to the commonwelth of nations broadcast on TV and
radio