What are the weirdest Christmas traditions out there for America?

How has the Anglo-Saxons affected Christmas traditions in America?

• Answer:

  Well, the base culture of the United States is Anglo-Saxon. The United States is made up of former English colonies that were heavily settled by people of Anglo-Saxon heritage from England, so the country's Christmas traditions are very much based on their traditions. Many popular Christmas songs come from old English folk songs, including, "The Twelve Days of Christmas", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "What Child is This", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", and "Joy to the World". Traditional foods such as fruitcake, figgy pudding, and wassail were all of English origin, and so is the modern custom of Christmas cards. For many of the older traditions like the mistletoe and the yule log, it's difficult to peg particular origins to the pagan Anglo-Saxons since these customs were also shared by the related people of ancient Germany and Scandinavia. All of these people spoke Germanic languages and practiced very similar religions, all of which had a winter solstice celebration around the same time as Christmas.