Navidad vs. Christmas

Hyphenated with Joanna Hausmann and Jenny Lorenzo

Pitaya Entertainment

Us Latinos, Education, Comedy, Hyphenated, Pitaya, Jenny Lorenzo, Latinx, Joanna Hausmann, Society & Culture

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Joanna and Jenny chat about the differences between Christmas in Latin America compared to the U.S., including how religious the season is, who supposedly brings the presents (Santa or El Niño Jesus?), and if the celebration is on the Eve or the Day.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Joanna.
0:05.1	And I'm Jenny.
0:06.1	And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.
0:09.8	And it's basically Christmas.
0:14.0	It's basically Christmas.
0:15.4	I can't believe it.
0:16.6	Can you?
0:17.6	I can't.
0:19.1	I feel like we say this every time, every year.
0:22.2	Well, I feel like, I don't know, I, I, growing up in Venezuela, everyone would just obviously say
0:27.8	Feliz Navida.
0:29.1	And I'm a Jewish person and I, I would say Feliz Navida.
0:32.1	And then I moved here and everyone was like, don't, don't do that.
0:34.9	Don't do that.
0:35.4	You don't, you can't make that assumption about someone's religion. You have to say happy holidays. And I'm like, okay. Yeah,
0:42.3	no, all right. I can, I can try and do that. But it's been so difficult to like unlearn it.
0:48.8	Like I'm, I'm, I celebrate Hanukkah and I'm unlearning calling it Christmas.
0:57.2	Yeah, man. I mean, I'm all about just keeping it neutral and just respecting everyone's religion. And I've had to explain that to
1:03.1	people, including my own family, because, you know, the whole war on Christmas. There's a war
1:09.3	on Christmas. I'm confused. Why did a war on Christmas.
1:11.6	I'm confused.
1:13.6	Why did the war on Christmas happen?
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