zeogold: I'll be in, but I'm afraid I don't have anything particularly special to put that isn't common to a good billion other Americans or so. This country outputs, like, 90% of the hugely commercialized Christmas songs, movies, traditions, etc. that everybody is already familiar with. As for me, my personal favorite part is the television programs and movies. It's a regular tradition for me to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas and some of the Rankin-Bass cartoons around this time. As far as food goes, my mom usually makes banana pudding.
Favorite song is probably "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen", I usually go for the more traditional versions of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlfHyb397VY skimmie: Santa is not adverse to commercialized Christmas traditions. He left a present in your stocking!
How about "Johnny Mathis - When a Child Is Born", then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCqhX89WV_0 A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A tiny star lights up way up high
All across the land, dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born
A silent wish sails the seven seas
The winds of change whisper in the trees
And the walls of doubt crumble, tossed and torn
This comes to pass when a child is born
A rosy hue settles all around
You've got the feel you're on solid ground
For a spell or two, no-one seems forlorn
This comes to pass when a child is born
And all of this happens because the world is waiting,
Waiting for one child
Black, white, yellow, no-one knows
But a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter,
Hate to love, war to peace and everyone to everyone's neighbour
And misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten, forever
It's all a dream, an illusion now
It must come true, sometime soon somehow
All across the land, dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born