In many neighborhoods in New York, immigrant and ethnic cultures have their own traditional ways of showing this season’s spirit.
Traditions From Homelands Mark American Christmas for Immigrants
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Twelve year old Rhiannon Larsen played the Saint in this year’s Sanka Lucia procession, a mainstay of Brooklyn’s Scandinavian-American community. (Adam Phillips/VOA)
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Two little girls from Brooklyn, New York, dressed in traditional Norwegian clothes. (Adam Phillips/VOA)