New Year across Cultures

• Australia celebrates New year with a grand fire work display over the Sydney Harbor

• In Belgium New Year is called “Sint   Sylvester vooranvond” . They kiss their loved ones with the onset of the new year and the farmers wish each and every one of their animals.

• In Brazil people party on the Copacabana beach and light millions of candles to wash out to sea

• In UK people welcome the new Year with a lot of drinking, gifts and resolutions

• In Japan New year is “Oshogastu”.   People eat rice cakes and stew. People gift money to children.

• In Korea, they welcome the new year with rice cakes. All Koreans turn a year older on Jan 1st. A Korean has two birthdays.

• In US, people celebrate New years with fire work and the famous Crystal ball drop in Times square New York. In the southern part though, people eat black eyed peas (365 of them) signifying green ($$$) in the new year.