Christmas Experience American Holiday Activities

After Christmas dinner, we played a chess game called "mahjong" by our host family. Touch card And playing cards are similar to mahjong in China, but in the form of numbers, not strips, cylinders, cakes, and tens of thousands. The way to calculate the ending is different. It is to write down the number of cards left in your hand and add the numbers recorded in the previous discs, leading to fewer points. Everyone has a very high interest. When others give a good card, everyone else will shout loudly. GA Le took the lead in the last inning, less than 1 points in the second place. At this time, if only second of the players first came out, the remaining cards in GA Le would be reduced to second, even if only 1 points. number It was zero, so even though she didn't have the first card, she kept the first place because the number was zero.

We have been playing until nearly 11 points before we say goodbye to them. I am afraid that if we do not go, we may disturb the arrangements of others. Americans usually stay up until 12 o'clock at Christmas Eve. Many families will drive out and start Christmas crazily early. Purchase 。 Because some famous large supermarkets will be open 24 hours, and the big price reduction rules will start after 12 p.m., and the goods that are specially bought or sent will be "limited, first come, first served" in many cases. It is no wonder that Americans rush to the supermarket at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. Although some famous stores do not operate for 24 hours, they will open the door early to greet customers on Christmas day. Special purchases and deliveries are also "limited in number, first come first served". Many people are able to get their favorite products at an ultra-low price and spend the night on Christmas Eve. In 2008, the most noticeable news on Christmas day in the United States was that when a supermarket opened in the early hours of the morning in California, the supermarket employees who opened the door were crushed and trampled to death. Because of the financial crisis, the annual Christmas shopping crazily is significantly lower than in previous years. Even so, the news of squeezing the dead still has a profound impact on people.

We went to a shopping mall in the afternoon on Christmas Eve. We also wanted to experience the enthusiasm of a crazy shopping. However, there were not so many people shopping there, and people were very careful. Special Deals in stores are usually not consumer goods, but consumer goods. Daily products are limited. We didn't buy anything. We just ate a little fast food and went to see a movie. Movie ratings in the United States are also graded. A good movie theater fare is 5~10 dollars, the average movie theater or the location is remote, the ticket price is 1.5 to 3.5 US dollars. Adult films are children who are not allowed to enter, and if found, they will be fined. At the entrance of a movie theater, there are usually places selling popcorn and drinks, which are several times the price of movie tickets, while Americans usually want popcorn for watching movies.

There are two reasons for Christmas shopping in the United States: one reason is that the purchasing power of Americans is indeed strong, which is probably due to the value of American money. The United States has strong purchasing power with the world currency, especially the products of the third world countries. After entering the US market, the price of the US dollar is really too cheap. Besides the low resource and labor value of the producer countries, the US government uses monetary means to make the labor value of the United States "value for money". Its advantage is that the Americans earn more and are worth more. The disadvantage is that the Americans have "less work and more money". In this way, the time is long, and the Americans become more and more from "less labor and more gains" to "no more effort", and the result is "sub loan crisis".