Modern-day Christmas celebrations are very personal and related much more to families and individuals then the citywide festivals held to celebrate the birth of Christ in the early days of the celebration. Around the 1800s, things started moving towards a more personnel celebration for Christmas. Christmas became a time to spend with your family, not the community. Everyone can obviously see that, you don't go visiting on Christmas morning. As a result of this shift, people came up with the idea of gift-giving, as a good way to celebrate with this new focus on family. So nowadays, we give gifts at Christmas, and thats why...
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