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- Christmas or Black History Month? Is the “White Christmas” song a racist dogwhistle? Is Santa Claus a communist? Should “A Christmas Story” be canceled? Today I’m reacting to some of the cringiest Christmas-themed TikToks I could find-let’s get into it!
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I asked a Chinese restaurant worker near my house why they were going to stay open on Christmas and they flat out said “some people can’t cook, so when they burn the food, we’re here for them”. Also said they didn’t really celebrate Christmas so it wasn’t a big deal for them. Makes sense to me.
There was one Christmas when we were without power. I WISHED the Chinese restaurants were open. We ended up having McDonalds. And no one sang for us
@@The_Keh27 I had to do the same last year. Horrible ice storm in Kentucky and we’re never equipped to deal with them. There was a McDonald’s I could walk to and that’s what I did. Definitely would have preferred the Chinese food for sure
Same for the corner store run by an Indian family. I was grateful he was open when we went to get an ingredient we needed and he said “we don’t celebrate it so you can” I told him I appreciate it a lot and he said “thank you and Merry Christmas to your family enjoy your dinner”
Aloha. Think they’re also popular with Jewish people.
We eat Chinese for Christmas.
Nothing is racist about accents. Yes, we laugh because they don't pronounce it correctly, but we also think it's really sweet that they are singing a song to this family in order to help with the Christmas spirit.
Its comedy gold
It’s not like they were white actors doing it, they had actual Asian people!
My favorite movie of all time. Watch someone say the ending where they go to the only open Chinese restaurant is WAClST!!!! Now my tradition for Christmas is Asian food 😂😂😂
I mean if it were English people trying to sing a Chinese song, the accents would probably sound funny to them too.
Let's be real, we all tease each other for our accents. I've heard many people make fun of American and British accents.
If we cancelled everything that offended some little entitled brat there would be nothing left!!! I am so sick of this, I am 53 years old & they basically want to cancel everything I grew up with.
So make a point to retain all that you did that you consider worthwhile. Get backup copies of your classics, and backups for those backups.
They want to play the long game with gradual change? We can play it too.
I'm 20 years younger but totally feel the same. Is it really that hard to just ignore and stop participate in the things that offend you rather than try to destroy and cancel it?
Jesus said in the last days, everyone will be offended. We're there, time to look up and watch.
53, 54 in a couple weeks, myself. race relations were so much better growing up. now that real systemic racism has been eradicated for decades, race relations took a nose dive over the last 10-15 years. the woke no longer has real racism to complain about so they manufacture racism towards minorities while celebrating racism towards whites.
I've still got an original copy of Little Black Sambo. They can change it only if they pry it from my cold dead hands.
True story. My Japanese mom was born and raised in Japan. He accent was pretty thick no matter how long she lived in America. She always had difficulty with the R sound, like many other Asians. So she bawled me out when I named my son Rory. LOL We went over it time and again on the phone. I told her "You know what? Grab a paper and pen. Got it? Right down L-O-L-Y. Got it? Okay say that! " From then on till her death as a family gag, every Christmas or birthday present she got him had Loly on it. She had a great sense of humor about such things.
Awww. Your mom sounded amazing. ❤
I’m Taiwanese and my kids names are Lorelai and Larry. You can only imagine how my mom reacted. 😂😂.
@@jennadams3782 LOL!
Aw ur mom sounds hilarious and like a great woman! ❤
Oh my gosh! My in-laws are Ugandan and they have the same trouble with R and L, and I also named my son Rory!
I miss the days where we could laugh at our selfs and not be offended and call everything racist
Same here
Claim to be deaf.
When they keep shouting "racist", record it and show it as bullying a minority for their disability
You and me both
I know right?!
Now a days I say that's racist to everything. If I can't joke around because it's racist then I made racism the joke🤷♀️
Oh I can't clock in early? That's racist. 😂
Those who complain or cry racist, are usually the problem or the racist.
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Indeed
Perfectly said
Right like I’m Chinese (2nd gen) and I’ve never heard my family or friends but upset with A Christmas Story, in fact we all laugh about to together. But it’s always people who aren’t Chinese getting pissed…
Yes
If anything, in-universe Ralphie's town is doing pretty good. His school appears to be integrated, and the students of color don't appear to be at any disadvantage or subject to harassment. And when the Chinese folks were singing, Ralphies family didn't appear to be making fun of them. There weren't any snide comments or racial slurs being thrown around, just some giggling from some kids with little to no impulse control (aka a realistic portrayal) so of course a kid would laugh at a mispronunciation. Considering the setting, he's in a progressive town. and remember, this movie takes place in 1940. There's a lot of positive racial representation in this "racist" movie.
Also like.. if you consider the pole-tongue scene and the bullying scenes.. literally everyone was catching strays in that movie. 💀
I'm Chinese and I laughed hard at that scene. My parents and relatives laughed at that iconic Chinese restaurant scene in a Christmas Story. We imitate the singing. That white lady doesn't need to be offended for us. She should be offended that her own race is calling us Chinese virus in reference to the Corona virus
When Trump came up with that (as a non-Chinese), I was highly offended by that remark
@@jeffgebarowski4808 No one, including Trump, ever called the Chinese people that, as a race thing. It was always about the country of origin of the virus, simply as a location (and driven, in part, as a somewhat emotional pushback against dishonest claims it initiated elsewhere or had an unknown origin). Just like nearly every other widespread disease is named for its place of origin (Spanish flu, West Nile virus, Ebola, Zika, etc.).
Political enemies of Trump, like the woman in the video, stood to gain politically by lying on Trump to discredit him, trying to twist his words into a meaning he never put into them. Their fake attack on him apparently worked, if good Chinese people like the OP believe any of those terms referenced their racial identity....
He called it the China virus because it came from China. There's nothing racist about that at all. If you are still offended get over it.
@@jeffgebarowski4808well are you offended by calling Ebola by that name? Covid was created in China- it may upset you but not because that’s racist
Nobody called Chinese people a virus. The virus was created in China, potentially as a bioweapon. It is a Chinese virus
I’m a biracial Asian and I love A Christmas Story. It’s, in fact, my favorite Christmas movie. Then again, I’m 51, so I love offensive and irreverent humor.
Maybe that's why I like it so much. I'm 45. So to me it's an oldie but a goodie for the holidays.
I too am a biracial Asian and also love a Christmas Story. I'm also 51 yo. I've actually heard asians mispronounce L’s to R’s. My Vietnamese Mother would laugh hysterically at the Chinese Restaurant scene. If you cannot laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? This “Cancel Culture” needs to STOP!
The really funny thing about the "fa ra ra ras" is, the three actors who sang that song, ad libbed that whole scene. The actor playing the manager was trying his hardest not to laugh, and director Bob Clark thought it turned out so well, he left it in the final cut.
Exactly!!
But no one wants to talk about that because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
Thus reminds me of the so-called “Jar-Jar Binks” controversy. The voice actor from Jamaica is the one who came up with Jar-Jars’ and the Gungans’ speech mannerisms, and the Liberals went bonkers and accused LucasFilms of “Ray-cisms”.
I'm sure those three guys when they saw their scene appeared in the movie were laughing all the way to the bank after that
Similar to the Chinese exchange student in Sixteen Candles. He came up with his own character during auditions but people want to cancel John Hughes.
The fact that English isn’t their first language yet they are trying to give the family a good and memorable Christmas is what makes the scene wholesome, with a side of funny.
Notice the family didn’t criticize them, even when they brought out a whole cooked duck (head and all). The family went along with the untraditional American Christmas dinner.
Exactly, they were like the heroes of the film. Their original Christmas dinner got destroyed but the restaurant workers made sure they had a decent Christmas.
I'm Chinese American in my 30's. I watched A Christmas Story for the first time a couple years ago and I died laughing from the Chinese restaurant scene! I know my ppl got accents. It is what it is. I could show this to my grandma (with Cantonese as her first language) and she wouldn't be focusing on the "racist" accent. She would be focusing on the fact that there's Chinese ppl working at a Chinese restaurant on Christmas day and she would be proud of that being in an American movie! It's context, it adds to the story and fun, it was representation without it forced down our throats. It worked.
Side note: It's not racist but it's inaccurate. Chinese ppl can pronounce L's bc there's L's in the language.
It's a holdover from making fun of the Japanese during WWII, and they paint all East Asians with the same brush. That was 1983. 38 years after the war. Sorta like making a movie about 1985, today.
I always thought the best part was the duck. No problem, its "smiling" at me. CHOP!!
I'm half Indian, and we get indian food from an indian restaurant every Christmas. They're open, the food is great and nobody in my family has to cook. I'm heading out now to chow down on some tandoori chicken, y'all have a Merry Christmas.
Love me some Naan and chicken murg
Indian food is the best!
I wish we had Indian food here. I love the meatballs in the yogurt sauce.
A coworker 25 years ago always ordered and brought it in for special occasions so no idea what those meatballs are called. Otherwise, I'd google the recipe and learn how to make them.
We’re white. We always get Chinese.
That first TikTok woman; I HATE that "everything I say sounds like a question" inflection. I have a childhood friend(now middle aged)who married into woke and embraced it whole-heartedly. He came to visit me when I hadn't spoken with him in a few years and my first question was, "Why are you talking like a freshman college girl?"
🤣
Its a societal feminine thing, it's not that annoying but it's socialized into women to not sound "too sure" of themselves (this isn't said directly to them, it's more something that's learned with time, trial, and error), so they are more likely to end sentences on an upwards inflection whereas men will typically only do so when actually unsure and/or when asking a question.
She's the type of woman that says she "deconstructed christianity" and thinks she sounds smart
Or your Canadian. Most Canadians have the “Canadian rise”, it’s part of our dialect. Every sentence sounds like a question, rising higher till we pass the conversation on and we drop the tone of voice. Never noticed it till I studied dialect and speech in college. Americans don’t tend to have it due to how tightly pack the population, so there’s a whole bunch of different accents/dialects due to the need to differentiate between the people who live near by, but aren’t in same state/geographical part of country. Canadas population is spread out so for most part our accent is similar to other Canadians.
Ugh,I can’t stand it! I can’t even focus on the crap they’re spewing because I keep waiting for the end of every sentence to go up.
A Christmas Story is my favorite Christmas movie ever. The writing and narration still makes me smile, from ear to ear. I love the over-exaggeration of every scene, line and daydream.
I can still think of that christmas duck, still smiling at the family :(
I'm Jewish and either go to a Chinese or Korean restaurant on Christmas and watch "A Christmas Story" as I love that movie! Also love that 80s Xmas song "Last Christmas" by Wham. You don't have to be Christian to enjoy some Christmas things (and others might enjoy Hanukkah if they tried, it's actually 8 days of fun). The last video was so cringe. UGH
Well, 99% of Christmas songs aren't even remotely Christian anyway. 99% of Christmas movies aren't Christian either.
Loved my Jewish co workers. They always work on the Xmas holidays, so I’m able to enjoy my xmas. And vice versa for their holidays! Thank you! 😊
You'll appreciate this then. I remember having the story read to us "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins" so I got the book a few years ago and now read it around the 8-day timeline. Also this year I took a crack at making potato latkes which were an instant hit with the kiddos.
Fun fact: White Christmas was a movie made in 1954. Bing Crosby and company sing the song at the very end because they were hoping and praying for snow at their former commanding officers (he was a General that really cared about his men and let the boys carry on a Christmas show while on the front lines during WW2. Despite being ordered to move out to fight.) ski lodge and their was no snow so no people were showing up. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye were successful TV personalities and secretly put the word out during a broadcast to have all the Generals men travel to the ski lodge in support. All the men show up, dress in full uniform and have a very emotional ceremony for him right before the very end where Bing and company put on a Christmas show for everybody and it snows, inspiring them to sing the song White Christmas. So the full context of the meaning behind the song is way deeper than it just being about snow, but the song was a smash hit and was played every Christmas season. Many people have never seen the movie and just think its a bout snow, which is fine, but I highly recommend seeing the movie.
White Christmas first sung in “Holiday Inn” 1942. Also Bing Crosby. Love both films.
@@pathacker4963 thank you for the info I'll have to check that out!
@@pathacker4963Holiday Inn is great, but extremely censored now, which is stupid, considering they intentionally hired black people in 1942, even if the portrayal wasn't up to 2023 hyperwoke standards. 🙄
My dad is generally not a movie watcher, but every Christmas we get together with him to watch White Christmas which is a movie he and his father both love. There is nothing racist about the movie or the song just because it has the word "white" in it.
The movie White Christmas, and the song weren't considered racist. They're referring to the movie Holiday Inn, where the song White Christmas was introduced in 1942. The racist part of the movie was while celebrating Lincoln's birthday, they wore blackface. Blackface was commonplace back then, obviously not anymore. I think some broadcasts of the movie nowadays edited to not show that part of the movie.
Stereotypes do often exist for a reason. My wife is Japanese and naturalized to the US about 7 yrs ago. A Christmas Story is one of her favorite holiday movies, and that scene in particular. And although that scene is about Chinese, she’s said many times now that she relates because Rs and Ls sound the same to her and she can rarely tell the difference. They’re also extremely difficult to speak as well because the Japanese language doesn’t use those sounds at all, and just has something kinda similar but is more of a mix of R, D, and L. I’m Japanese bilingual and conversely that sound was difficult for me to learn and pronounce, so I get it. I guess we’re both racist though b/c we love the movie, so bad bad us. ;)
Exactly. The scene works because it's realistic-- many Asian languages do not have the "L" sound in this context, and it's one of those sounds that if you don't hear it by a certain age during early childhood, your brain doesn't form the recognition for it. Back in college (a little over 10 years ago, so before people started were super sensitive like today), I watched this movie with my roommate, whose parents are from China. She laughed so hard and said it sounded like her parents speaking English and not understanding why they were saying certain words wrong.
Noticing different pronunciation is evil!
@@Avarciriththe best part is that part is ad libed and the director thought it was funny so left it in.
So in other words it was actually the Chinese actors that was doing it on purpose, but these people still say it's racist because it's just in the movie, and that's it. If it's in the movie and is a non white person, it's racist no matter the context or whatever.
Bro my favorite is the whole.. "YoU CAn StIlL Be RaCiSt aNd DaTe OuTsIdE YoUr RaCe. Like ... no dude, you can't. I know about white nationalism... You absolutely can't date outside your race. a real racist would never date an Asian girl or black girl. I also hate the whole Yellow fever nonsense. It's just more leftist tactics. If it's a white girl witha black guy it's celebrated but if it's a white guy with an Asian girl it's creepy and yellow fever. It's just more double standard bs.
As for everything else you said... so true. I'm the same but I speak Korean not Japanese :)
You can't win this argument when dealing with cancel culture. Either it's racist because a minority is acting out a very realistic scene, or if they chose white actors for the part they were being disrespectful to Asians for doing this scene. A lot of people can laugh at this scene because it's true. Woke people have no sense of humor and get offended because it's in a popular movie.
I always told my kids that magic is real as long as you believe in it..They chose to believe until they were older. When they no longer did, they realized I never lied and they had a magical childhood with Santa, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy etc..Hold on to the magic of childhood as long as you can, you never get it back! Love your channel! 🤗❤️
💯 ❤
Never seen a Christmas Story, my favourite Christmas movie is a Wonderful life, because it’s all about a man learning about his place in life and the message it sends is that we all have an important role to play in life. Have a great New Year everyone. 😊
I LOVE a Christmas Story. Some people just aren't happy unless they're complaining and ruining someone else's day.
And some people just don't like A Christmas Story, I for one never have. I assume that makes me a bad person?
@@Undomaranel no. But you're not complaining about it, or wanting it to be banned but I don't understand what you have against Ralphie. ;)
People are too sensitive now. The backbone has been ripped out
@@SaggyBaskets He's a disrespectful twerp that never learned anything beyond how to further annoy the people he claimed to love. He goes all movie doing the exact opposite of what the adults looking out for him told him to do. He's not trying to learn and grow, he chooses to be rude and destructive... just like the people around him. If anything the movie is a giant red flag.
It was clearly designed as a "down to earth" response to Leave It to Beaver's squeaky clean characters. The issue is that instead they created a story where nothing positive happens and it's just people choosing to be disrespectful and digging themselves deeper. And after a movie of being told that he'd shoot his eye out, what does he do? Did he think about positioning or figure out how to operate it safely? Ask for help? Learn ANYTHING? Nope! Just acts the same numbskull he always was with the adults choosing to be just as destructive toward each other and neglect him.
The movie is all about a neglectful and abusive family. There may not have been physical violence, but it glorifies the broken relationships and toxic behaviors rather than helping people recognize what is abusive and disrespectful about it. I fail to see what's entertaining about watching a family attacking each other and breaking itself apart. Cathartic in some moments, maybe. Reminiscing of when we were disrespectful twerps, maybe. But a whole movie of deliberate antagonism toward each other? Pass.
Edited because autocorrect autofailed.
yes, yes you are@@Undomaranel
The first tiktok girl is so cringe and obviously looking for something to sink her fangs into and be offended, while justifying her "oppression" status. She just inspired me to purchase the movie.
A Christmas Story is one of the most wholesome feel good movies of all time. Anyone who can't see that has no soul.
It makes me think of that old Isuzu commercial where the white guy couldn't say Isuzu, and the Asian salesman said, "That's okay. I can't say Chevroret." Why can't we have fun with our differences and have a good laugh? It's all in good fun. It's not putting people down. It's like cancel culture is full of anger and hatred, and they have to find anything and everything to pour out their misery on in attempts to keep others from being happy and content.
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That might be why Isuzu stopped making cars... lol.
When I taught English in Taiwan, I showed A Christmas Story to several classes from elementary to high school. Every last one of them thought the Chinese restaurant scene was the funniest part. The guys couldn't pronounce L? Funny. The mother reacting to the duck head? Funny. Get over it.
Differences in culture. Laughing like that could be seen as she's uncomfortable and that's how she deals with it through laughter.
@@cdreyes81🤦♀️
@@cdreyes81 I think you may have misread my comment. There were dozens of students, not an individual. They were aware of the difficulties in pronunciation when speaking a foreign language, and they could laugh at it. A cultural difference that might exist is that when the Taiwanese kids were laughing at the duck head scene, they were more laughing at the silly American woman who can't handle that the animal she's about to eat is actually an animal. There are different angels there.
@joeketa6352 I get what you're saying. I was talking about the woman in the scene. I'm not attacking you or anything.
@@cdreyes81 I didn't think you were attacking me, but I did think you were challenging the students' reaction. Because it is true, especially in Asia, people will often laugh when they're uncomfortable with a situation or dealing with confrontation.
My brother is disabled and made me a lamp out of one of his old artificial legs! Best Christmas present ever! Is he ablist for "making fun" of disabled people? Maybe, but who cares? Does his leg lamp want to make me disrespect handicapped people? Of course not! The Chinese people in the Christmas story have funny accents, but they're also gracious and eager to make the family happy! Is this some kind bad depiction? Of course not! Light hearted ribbing actually brings people together. Just watch any man interact with his college buddies, and you'll see this in action.
And their accents would be accurate if they weren't born here. I know many people from various Asian countries that came to my area for different reasons. Many of which had issues saying the Ls. So Rs were used in their place in some instances. It is not racist to acknowledge when it happens. It's just a linguistic situation. They never showed them as "less than".
Lol, what a wicked scene of humor 😂😂😂
I'm disabled and I've never thought it was a prosthetic leg. I thought it was just a trashy bachelor pad thing, which is why it's funny.
I LOVE your brother 😂😂😂 I don't know him,but I love him! That is HILARIOUS 😂😂😂😂 almost spat my coffee everywhere😂😂😂
It's a " major award".
Amala, trust me, as a parent Christmas was way more fun when the kids believed in Santa.
Absolutely. She'll make a terrible mom.
Yeah I don’t get why Gen Z thinks kids believing in Santa when they are little is some sort of bad thing.
@@spankynater4242the original commenter isn't saying she will be a terrible mother, only you said that, also why don't you be brave enough to say that as a main comment so she can see that, and not be such a coward hiding in someone else's comment section. Your dumb as hell, just cause someone doesn't want their child to believe in Santa doesn't mean they are going to be a bad mother, in fact there are whole cultures that don't do Santa at Christmas at all because it's not something they want to celebrate. You are so dumb and rude if you think thats what makes someone a terrible parent. 😂
Respectfully, as a kid born in the 2000s, it felt like a betrayal to find out that my parents had been lying to me about a major part of my favorite holiday, although I'm certain my parents never saw anything wrong with it and thought it was adorable to see my siblings and I excited about Santa Claus. I don't want to teach my future children that it's okay to lie for your own amusement. I'd rather keep Santa Claus out of Christmas, and allow family time and focusing on Christ to make it a special time for them.
@@bethanyellico236 That's just your generation, which was raised on social media and taught to be victims. It's harmless fun that ads magic to the holiday, and it's very overboard to say you felt betrayed.
Amala,
The intro for the song White Christmas which is almost never recorded with the song goes like this because the song writer was in Southern California when he was writing it:
The sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway! There’s never been such a day in Beverly Hills LA. But it’s December the 24th, and I am longing to be up north!
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…
Isn’t that fun? I love discovering forgotten intros. That’s also the fun in buying a Disney songbook where you discover how the lyrics and tune changed between songwriter and final film cut.
The Chinese restaurant scene is actually heartwarming and represents the spirit of America perfectly.
Though the Chinese don't know anything about Christmas, they're trying to be respectful and give the family a good Christmas because they know it's important to white Americans.
And on the other end, the Chinese food is strange to the Parker's Midwestern palate, yet they're trying to be respectful to their hosts.
That's what Americans do, even if we don't understand each other, we embrace and share each others cultures.
Compromise between two cultures. Whatever happened to the west when hard lines are blurred and blurred lines where boldened?
Americans, not just WHITE Americans. 🤦♂️
@@jamesplymire5342 I said white Americans because the Chinese are serving a white family from the 1940s in the scene. Don't knock your head like... 'OMG look at this racist. He thinks American values are only for whites.,' Because that's not even what the comment I made meant. It's referring to the scene in the movie and its greater context.
A Christmas Story will always be a classic Christmas masterpiece. I'm sorry for people who are offended by its final scene. When I was young, that scene endeared me to those wonderful Asian characters who were doing their best to cheer up another American family. It displayed a sense of community and kindness.
Stereotypes can be funny because they're true. I used to think a character named "Ching Chong" was a terrible take until I went to Singapore and met a "Xing Xong." Exact same pronunciation!
BTW, Muppet Christmas Carol is my must-see Christmas movie every year.
leave it to tiktokers to take a wholesame day and make it "problematic" and "offensive"
A Christmas Story is a snapshot of America and American families of the time. I remember my neighbors from when I was small on one side were Native American with two boys and the other side was an African American family with three girls. I played outside all day long with whoever wanted to be friends. If a new family moved in that was going to be my new friend. They sure do want to bash this time as a time that racism was accepted but in reality we just all accepted each other with all our faults and differences.
I’m taking Christmas in Hawaii this year and my family and I had a strange experience on Christmas Eve… we were at a restaurant where all the staff would introduce themselves by saying, “Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas,” and this liberal-esque lady at the table next to us responded, “We don’t celebrate Christmas! …are they going to play Christmas music all night?!”
And we’re all like, “Ma’am…. This is December.” 😂 she had no holiday spirit at all.
People are just searching for a way to be offended now…her loss for not celebrating Jesus’s birthday.
It's so weird, a lot of Conservatives do the same for other holidays (see: war on Christmas/"Happy Holidays" rage). Maybe we all just need to chill the hell out and stop trying to create division and instead _try_ our hardest to create peace and harmony.
To be fair, most Christmas music is straight garbage. I'd walk out if I heard The Beatles 'Simply Having' or Springsteen wail about Santa. Ugh.
😂
@@sortofanoakyafterbirth3661 Please! 'Simply having...' is NOT by The Beatles
@@deja-view1017Well, they are a quarter right. 😂
Always loved a Christmas Story, BUT my all-time favorite is "A Muppet Christmas Carol" original cut when Belle had her song. Micheal Caine's performance is phenomenal, It's not Christmas without this for me.
Agreed!! Absolutely my favorite version of the story!!
My favorite Christmas Movies.
1. Miracle on 34th Street
2. White Christmas
3. Home Alone
4. Home Alone 2
5. Home Alone 3
6. A Christmas Story
7. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey version)
8. Elf
9. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
10. Charlie Brown Christmas
Please do not underestimate a child's response to the story of Santa. I went hard with my daughter convincing her that Santa was real and yes she was extremely mad at me when she found out that he wasn't. But a day later she said to me "Mom it was awesome." Today she is super smart, she writes her own plays she's writing a book bc her imagination was partially lit by the magical story of Santa. She also recently submitted & won the chance for a Christmas play she wrote for her high school which was performed last week. It included all the magical things she experienced believing in Santa. Besides other imaginative things we did when she was a child, she said she really believes that believing in Santa help develop up her imagination. You are robbing ur kids of that sense of wonder. Trust me bc my 17 yr old recalls it so fondly!
That sounds like me as a child. Good on you for introducing her to the magic, and imagination.
I agree absolutely. Imagination is very important. My mom was constantly criticizing my Imagination every turn of my childhood. I hated it.
It's a gamble. Some kids will be okay after a bit, some will feel betrayed for years. It just depends on if the parents want to risk that, or are even comfortable with lying to their kids like that. My parents made no effort to convince us of Santa, but didn't say he wasn't real either. I never literally believed, but loved pretending and playing along. To me, my parents were Santa. My younger sister believed until another kid told her the truth and she ran to my mom, hoping she would dispute it. My mom thought she already knew Santa wasn't real and accidentally crushed the magic.
I’m 58 and I still believe in the magic of Christmas❣️
I had a friend who told her kids, when the found out Santa was not real, that they had to believe or not receive. That Santa is the fun part of Christmas, part of the experience, so in that way he is real. I used the same thing with my daughter and it did help. I was receiving gifts from Santa from my mom when I was an adult (usually the underwear and socks) and I still give them to my daughter and grandkids.
The North Carolina governor pointed something out that I hadn’t really realized before, I mean, I knew that white hatred has been made an accepted main stream global thing, but I had not made the connection he had made until hearing him say it, he said that the term people of color is a gross and hateful way of putting every single race and ethnicity in the world into a group that the white race and only the white can’t be a part of, literally bringing all races together EXCEPT the white race. It’s a truly shameful and disturbing truth that I hadn’t really understood to that degree until he broke it down so simply and so honestly.
Hes right.
The term POC is literally meant to include every single shade and color, race and ethnicity, except white people. Encouraging and pushing an anti-white culture and mindset globally.
He was so right. And it’s the answer I kept trying to figure out. How and why is it becoming to worldwide and so easily accepted by so many people, this white hate. This is why. This POC agenda.
I'll never use the term people of color - when I grew up it was considered ignorant. And it is.
It really is garbage. Last time I checked 'White' is a color. All the drivel from the left is coming from a queer socialist perspective pushed in education.
I never thought of it that way...
My home state 💕 I definitely appreciate that illumination
White people aren’t actually white, we’re sort of beige. That’s a color.
This also happens with gender, really good comedies really know how to highlight the differences between men and women in a really funny way, always makes me laugh and I don’t take it to heart if there is a joke around a female stereotype.
My wife is Chinese and A Christmas Story is her favorite movie, period. She laughs every time at 'fa ra ra ra'.
St. Nicholas was a REAL Bishop in what is now Modern day Turkey. He WAS a good man who did good in history. In that way, you will not be lying about “Santa.”
AND there are legit miracles that have occurred and were performed by the Holy Spirit as made manifest by an angel of the Lord. Sometimes these angels of the Lord appear as Santa Claus aka St. Nicholas aka Kris Kringle.
For example, I watched a made-for-TV special years ago with eyewitness testimonies, etc. of people who had amazing Christmas miracles happen. It was a collection of stories from all over the States spanning several decades.
One story I still remember roughly 30 years later was of some kind of a non-profit that was collecting presents to give to foster children and orphans in their area. One night close to Christmas, their offices were broken into, and every single present was stolen. Everybody was understandably devastated. And with Christmas so close, they weren't sure what to do. The community rallied and gathered some gifts, but it wasn't enough to get every child a gift. They prayed for a miracle.
The night before they were due to deliver the gifts, Santa came and brought with him enough gifts to DOUBLE the number of gifts they had to give away from before the robbery! They were overwhelmed with gifts for the children! On top of that, the jovial fellow they called Santa-not a single person recognized him, but he knew all of them, even by name. And before they could stop him to ask him who he "actually is" or however you want to say it, he left.
Nobody since then knew who he was or was able to figure out where all the presents came from. There was just nothing to identify him or the origin of the gifts!
I think I believe in Santa Claus as if he were an angel of the Lord, like how Gabriel and others are angels of God. And the Lord has such a tender heart for children, that is to be sure!
And before that his origins come from Odin.
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That's what I told my daughters
I think it's also important to point out that the guy trying to get the singers to pronounce the words correctly, is also Chinese. The funny part doesn't come from laughing at them either, the funny part is the man correcting them, them repeating what he said correctly, but then reverting back to the broken English everytime they start singing.
What that first young lady missed was that the Chinese servers, who may or may not celebrate Christmas, sang to the family to help them celebrate Christmas. That was Christmas spirit.
A Christmas Story IS the best! Not only is it a great movie, but it was the movie that my husband and I were watching in my apartment 18 years ago when he told me that he liked me and wanted to get serious with me. A Christmas Story (and the leg lamp) is a symbol of our relationship and it is our family tradition to watch it every Christmas Eve when we celebrate our dating anniversary. It reminds us of that night. My other holiday movie go to's are Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Elf, Frosty The Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Charlie Brown Christmas, and Garfield Christmas!!
That scene is all improv. They didn’t know that goose was coming out like that. The mom’s reaction is all real and natural. It was basically a family going out to a Chinese place to eat not knowing what’s going on 🤣 it was incredible!!!
The moms reaction is so funny I can never tell if she's laughing crying or what
Jeez so much anger. These people have no love or happiness and so have to replace it with the next strongest emotion.
I'm doing santa like my parents did. We believe in the spirit of Santa and once the kids start to realize their isn't a physical Santa we pull up the origin story of how the legend started. It becomes a history lesson that I love and look forward to do with my kids when that day comes they notice.
I can belive you guys have never seen the movie "White Christmas " where that song is from. You both seem to know "home alone" & "a Christmas story" to well. Any ways, the song is song, by Bing Crosby at a Vermont ski lodge owed by his former commanding officer (a general), wishing that it would SNOW at the lodge because upto that point it hadn't snowed, so the ski lodge was going broke ! There more detail & nuances to the story, but that's the basic out line. You should definitely try watching it next year. I can only hope, the guy was trying, poorly, to be funny. You guys did a great video, will definitely keep watching your channel
You want to cancel ‘A Christmas Story’?
Straight to jail
Right away.
Asian here, looove Christmas Story! In fact I love that scene cause they eat duck which is so underrated. It's always about the turkey and chicken lol. 😂🎄 Merry Christmas guys!
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Think it's a goose. But ? Who eats chicken on Christmas? Kfc in japan?
As a child, I was disappointed Chinese restaurants in my area did not serve duck or goose, as we saw in the movie. I wanted to try it from watching A Christmas Story as I grew up!
My Dad was born in 1952. He claims the movie is a depiction of his childhood, except he wasn't raised in Indiana and he is a youngest child with siblings 6 and 9 years older.
I stand corrected. Just saw it and he says duck. 🦆
Amala is the cutest freaking thing. With her little festive hat. 😊
Our main family Christmas movies are How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Gremlins, Edward Scissorhands, & The Nightmare Before Christmas~ But we also love non-stop streaming the stop-motion Christmas movies (Jack Frost, Rudolph, Santa Clause, Drummer Boy, etc). c:
As a Chinese speaker from Taiwan, I would like to clarify that we CAN pronounce La just fine. It's the Japanese people that can't tell La and Ra apart. Am I offended by the movie? No! It's my husband's favorite Christmas movie (he's white). I watch it with him every year.
It's okay to be ignorant. 🤣
So Chinese has the L sound but Japanese does not have the L sound??
That's why they pronounced Godrilla not Godzilla
I move always thought they just place a lot less emphasis on the difference. Kind of like C & K for us,
@@aruglaempire2518Yes, you can find a lot of Japanese people pronouncing words with l and r sounds on CZcams. They can't really pronounce the hard R sound though. L and R are kind like interchangeable to them.
That's true, not everyone can be fully educated on everything
Haha!! I knew woke ppl will complain obviously about that part of the Christmas story. I’m Chinese myself and I think it’s hilarious and I’m not offended at all! I actually shared that clip on my IG story 🤣🤣
Merry Christmas and Fa ra ra ra!! Amala!! 🥰
My parents told us the story of actually saint nick. I was taught that he more represents the "spirit of giving" as it relates to the Christmas season. I think I'll role with that for my own kids.
I remember when I was 10 and saw that my Santa gift was “made in china” and wrote a whole letter calling Santa a capitalistic bastard that used Chinese slaves to make toys 😂😂
That's a detail missed by children the world over 😅
So true . My husband got a genuine email ad from our local Japanese place called Ichi Tokyo early this morning saying specifically targeting today basically "we know most other places are closed today Christmas Day so if you'd like any of our specials, we are open today!!"
I really really miss my days as a child when we had Christmas pageants, that included many different traditions and cultures. We learned Christmas songs in other languages too. We colored pages for Hanukkah and Kwanza as well. We did gift exchanges at school and had pot luck Christmas parties where every family brought a favorite food of their culture around Christmas. In Arizona that meant everything from jello salad to tamales. It was a better time, it was a more happy time, it was a more peaceful time and I had friends and foes but never saw color. We need to go back to that and stop looking for things to be offended by. God bless you all and Merry Christmas!!!
I wish that's how it was as a millennial in elementary school. I grew up with every admin in my school telling us it's "happy holidays" and not "Merry Christmas" but then never taught us anything about other celebrated holidays. I learned about dreidels (Jewish game) at my Christian Christmas party and other world holidays through my interactions directly with those of other faiths, not my public school. Because I grew up in New Mexico, they only taught us the purpose of luminaries but left out the Christian meaning behind them by the time I reached middle school.
Point being, rather than our public schools making the holidays inclusive, they made it feel rather EXclusive and particularly made a point of excluding Christian faith because our beliefs were "offensive" to everyone else.
National Lampoons Christmas 🎄 Vacation.... Chevy Chases rant near end of movie is EPIC.
I had a history professor from China, and after 40+ years in America he still struggled with his pronunciation.
I have also studied Chinese, and my pronunciation is often terrible! That's what languages are like, each has sounds that don't exist in others, and a foreign accent is almost impossible to lose..
As much of the film relies on exagerration, the Chinese restaurant scene is perfectly fitting.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. Just go on your way and leave those of those who love it watch it in peace. One more thing. Don't let the door hit you in the ass when you leave. Kamala, turn up the volume so I can hear it better. 😊😊
How did she not see it as Chinese appropriating an American tradition for profit?
They will never cancel the Christmas story. They get offended by everything and they need therapy so freaking bad.
These type of people is why bullying exists.
Absolute FAVORITE scene in A Christmas story is when they put the jackets on and can’t put their arms down 😂😂😂😂
That’s so my kids in the winter lol
Also my neighbor has the leg 🦵 lamp in her front window at Christmas time 😂
I'm late to this party, but I had to share my favorite Christmas movies here, too. Yeah, I love the staples: "A Christmas Story", "Miracle on 34th Street" (both versions,) "It's a Wonderful Life". But I like to look for the weird, forgotten Christmas movies, because they usually turn out to be a ton of fun. These include: K Gordon Murray's "Santa Claus", "Christmas Evil", and of course, "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians."
Tik Tok is as cringe as watching a CZcams channel dedicated to NFL clips post nothing by clips of Taylor Swift.
... What? I don't understand this English.
That's very specific. I feel like you're talking about someone specific.
I just saw one this morning and the comment section was 🔥.
It’s all about the 💰
🤔 no, not the same.
A Christmas Story is definitely one of my favourites. Believe it or not, it was considered a bit edgy at the time, at least, that's how it was marketed. I like it because it never gets too sappy so when there are warm moments, they stand out. We watched "A Christmas Story Christmas" from 2022 and I thought it was a nice love letter to the original and to the work of Jean Sheppard.
I put "from Santa" or just "Ho, Ho, Ho" on every gift I give at Christmas no matter who it's for or their age. Santa isn't a person, it's the spirit of giving gifts without expecting anything (including credit) in return.
I love that scene. I always think how kind it was of the waiters to try to have a nice Christmas for this family.
That woke tikity-tocker makes me want to watch _A Christmas Story_ for another 24 hours straight. That scene was one of the funniest parts of the movie. The "fara ra ra ra ra" bit is still hilarious along with the father's line "that's good but it's smiling at me" in regards to the duck.
Seeing Amala as a Diverse Woman Santa Claus is everything 😂🤭🎅🏾👧🏾 (Put a chick in it an make her gay! - Kathleen Kennedy (South Park pander verse))
😂😂 yes!
Make it f*ckin lame
She did "Santa Claus Inc" better than Seth and Sarah did
Put a chick in it and make lame and gay😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
This whole time I thought they were saying "chicken" instead of "chick." That makes so much more sense now, except for the linguini scene.
The scene where Ralphie climbs back up the slide and mall Santa kicks him back down used to scare me when I was really little lol...HOHOHO! 😂
As for A Christmas Story, they were actually not actors, except, supposedly, the owner, and it was not scripted, the director asked them to sing Deck The Halls to give the scene more of a Christmas vibe. It just turned out to be funny. The actors weren't told about the duck scene either... when the head is chopped off, that was not in the script, it was added for comedy effect.
I like the "bows of horry" line better. I think that's when the mom loses it. Either way, gets me everytime. I am never laughing at the Chinese folks in that scene. I am laughing at the family's reaction and the absurdity of their situation. Offended people are not smart enough to have a sense of humor.
And the restaurant owner/manager did not have the pronunciation problem and was frustrated. Stop! Stop! Bring food! He just wanted to give his customers great service. I loved him.
What’s silly is it’s a white woman that’s offended,I’ve never heard a Chinese person offended by it though!😆
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"A Christmas Story" is STILL one of my must watch movies for Christmas time.....A classic in every regard.
You know these "victims" are just so miserable with themselves that they can't have joy about anything (AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU). This is why we can't have nice things, to coin a phrase. Also, the sequel to A Christmas Story (A Christmas Story Christmas) was brilliant!
Christmas is about family, friends, love, joy, giving, sharing, etc. Thanksgiving to New Year's Day is a time to recover from all the BS from the rest of the year. 😢
I was the little a-hole kid who got in trouble for telling all my classmates they were stupid for believing in Santa. Thankfully, I've grown enough to not want to destroy kid's beliefs anymore.
We let our kids believe as long as they felt, but when they outright asked, we told ghem the truth, but said to let others believe the way they want to and not to be the ones to refute it. I mean if people believe in a diety, why not a jolly fat man too?
I used to work at a daycare and there was a child (7 y/o) who told me “my mom said Santa isn’t real because she wants me to know that she’s the one who bought all my gifts not Santa”
Like way to take Christmas childhood joy and make it all about the mom lol
My mother always told us that Santa / Father Christmas represented the spirit of Christmas more than anything. We were poor but celebrated heartily. The thing with Santa bringing presents was problematic because the implication was that those children who were spoilt with many many gifts were the nicest and those who got little were naughtier. Hope I haven't blown your mind with this insight.
@rcr7613 man that's a serious narcissist, the mom. The kid is obviously going to know eventually all those gifts came from mom 🤦♀️
@@ticketyboo2456 I'm glad my kids are older now bc the pressure to have gifts from me and Santa was insane.
That chinese restaurant scene is iconic. Stop being weak folks! :)
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Who doesnt laugh at that? 😂
Oh God yes.
Bring out the duck, head and all and people are horrified.
They ask them to take care of the head and they just hack it off with a cleaver lol
I'm white, I married (and divirced) a 3rd generation mexican-american. One day, he told me I was racist because I pointed out some cultural differences that my black girlfriend had told me (I had also seen them myself) regarding her black/Mexican marriage. It was insane. Just pointing out differences is racist now. He also called me an idiot for believing in God. Fortunately/ unfortunately, the marriage didn't last very long.
Something I just noticed in "A Christmas Story" this year after watching it every year for decades. Ralphie's school is integrated. There are black kids in his class. The movie is set in the 40's. I don't think that was the norm back then.
It was there and unnoticed for so long because it was portrayed as normal and it was normal.
I just got back from a bike ride to see what was open in my area. Two establishments were open - a Chinese restaurant, where people could go to get some lunch, and a CVS where people could go to get some antacid after eating that lunch from the Chinese restaurant.
I was always taught that Santa symbolized the spirit of Chistmas, the spirit of giving, and not a literal person. I cherish that memory to this day due to their honesty on the jolly old elf. MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Santa is based on St Nicholas, a bishop from Myra the 3rd-4th century. So he is based on a literal person. Each European culture created their own story about him.
@@TheRealRealOK I don't care what they tell you in school, she was black. ;)
@@ViolosD2I Santa was a black woman? Yeah, sure.
@@ViolosD2I They all say that 🤣
I knew all about St Nick and Jesus.
I always laugh that 6:18 there is no way in hell half the stuff made 20+ years ago could be made today. 😂
Die Hard is the best Christmas movie. It teaches us to be kind, to love each other and not take hostages in Nakatomi Plaza. Also fun fact. Chritmas was banned in my country during the Communist regime between 1944 and 1989. Santa did not exist back then. There was Grandpa Frost and he brought presents for New Year's. People would still celebrate, but mostly at home would not advertise it.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Pointing out the differences amongst the races or cultures isn't racist at all. It's just pointing out the differences. Differences aren't inherently bad. There's nothing wrong with saying fa ra ra ra as opposed to fa la la la.
I hope these people are visited by Krampus not santa 😂
That's the tip of the iceberg in European cultures. There's a hundred ways to get beaten or kidnapped in December, kid.
They’d call him racist 😂
me: thinks of doja cat's demon...... 🤣😈
A Christmas Story wasn’t exactly a popular movie when it was first released in the theaters. It took home video rentals and years of it airing on TNT and TBS for it to catch on.
And Mom tip...I never "told" my son about Santa. We said Santa is the "spirit of Christmas" and kind of left it at that. I never went-hard on Santa because I wasn't raised to believe in Santa. We do stockings and make cookies but I left it to him on this one. He did believe for a minute but officially stopped around 5.
I worked in Manhattan's Chinatown for 20 years and can guarantee you this really happens!
Cancel the cancellers. Name names.
I live in Thailand where 96% of people are Buddhist and there are lots of Christmas parties and sometimes they give gifts. Even if they don't ascribe to the religious significance, they like the overall idea of giving gifts and spending time with family and friends. Merry Christmas!!
Christmas with the Kranks is hands down my number 1 Christmas movie. No contest.
I'm in the South and I don't know anyone who gets Chinese Food on Christmas Day. If the neighbors don't have fixings, they are invited to dinner.
I’ve been to the south and what you guys call “Chinese food” is very interesting lol. I wouldn’t order it there either.
Amala you have me wheezing with Diversity Hire Santa-
I had a crappy Christmas Eve last night, thanks for making me crack a chuckle with the start of this video. Lots of love to you!
It'll be okay, my friend. Every sunrise is a clean slate. Enjoy the opportunity
@@shadowpoet4398love this ❤ Merry Christmas 🎄
Diversity Hire Santa 😂😂 that made me giggle ❤ merry Christmas & happy new year Amala
My family always watched national lampoons Christmas vaccation. The last Christmas before my father passed away, I found the wally world egg nog punch bowl at a re sale shop. It was the first gift I knew my dad and step mom actually liked.
no joke finished this movie 5 seconds before I saw the notification😂
In Mexico on February 6 "dia de Los Reyes Magos" It is more popular than Christmas but both are celebrated. In fact, we saturate ourselves with partying since December 12, we call it the marathon "Guadalupe-Reyes"
My parents never said to us directly santa was a real person, gifts were from 'santa'.
Which was fun, but when I was around 10, and kind of knew it was mum and dad we made christmas a family oriented holiday.
When I lived in Okinawa for a bit there was a steak and seafood restaurant called "Steak & Robster". Nobody ever protested outside the building.