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🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Christmas and the holiday season are usually a time for Latinos and Latinas to gather together and celebrate, but COVID-19 has turned those holiday celebrations upside down. Yet for many people in the Latino community, spending the holidays away from family is not new. In this episode of Latino USA we hear from Latinos and Latinas who are used to not being able to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, and we learn some tips on how to cope with these socially distant holidays.
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0:00.0 | Dear listener, first of all, happy holidays and felices. |
0:11.0 | Yes, that's, you know, this year the holidays look and feel so different than any of the |
0:16.8 | celebrations we've ever had before. |
0:19.9 | And so we asked you, our listener, to tell us about your plans. |
0:24.8 | And this is what you had to say. |
0:26.8 | Hi Maria, my name is Debbie Rosa. |
0:30.7 | I live over here in sunny San Diego, California. |
0:35.5 | So usually how my family spend Christmas is we get all together. |
0:42.3 | So my grandma's hall, grandma is 97 and we just, you know, eat everything. |
0:51.8 | Menudo, tamales, hue, los. |
0:54.5 | Unfortunately, we're not going to be gathering at all. |
0:59.3 | It sounds like we're going to be doing like a drive-by from a grandma. |
1:04.7 | So she's not lonely during, you know, Christmas. |
1:09.9 | Hi, my name is Norma and I'm from Montclair, New Jersey. |
1:14.8 | I and my children celebrated this past Thanksgiving and we're planning on doing it a little |
1:21.2 | differently for Christmas. |
1:23.2 | They have never cooked a turkey the way, you know, the Puerto Ricans do it. |
1:27.8 | And they followed me as I prepared the turkey with the belong and the garlic and the oregano |
1:33.5 | and all that good stuff. |
1:35.2 | And then the next day we each took the turkey and the oven and while it was cooking, they |
1:41.4 | followed me and, you know, they had their own ingredients and we all made a rocongandule. |
1:49.8 | What was great about this was that the pandemic gave us an opportunity to actually pass down |
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