Close-up on our huge bowl of leftover cranberry sauce...So today is Black Friday, or, as we anglophones in Paris call it, Friday. Today is Americans' signal to turn their focus to the next big holiday at hand, which is, as far as commercialism is concerned, Christmas. Obviously not everyone in the country celebrates it, but Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Solstice and their other winter friends don't provide much competition from an advertising and consumerist standpoint. What I'm wondering is:Here in France, where is there is no Thanksgiving, when does it become Christmastime?
They actually turned the Christmas lights on in my town on Thanksgiving. It's been like that the two years before as well. So apparently, at least the Chaunois are on American Christmas season time.
ReplyDeleteAs the Champs Élysées is already in its full winter splendor and all the Starbucks are blaring Christmas songs, I'm guessing the American tendancy to plunge hardcore into the Christmas buying frenzy near the end of November has crossed the pond.
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