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Christmas in ThailandSuk san wan Christmas With less than 1% of the population of Thailand professing Christianity, Christmas is, for most Thais, a secular holiday.
Due to the small number of Christians in the population, Christmas is not considered an official holiday except by Christian schools and businesses. |
Christmas
parties are held at hotels
where people come to talk,
drink, and exchange gifts with
one another. Songs like Jingle
Bells and Frosty the Snow Man
are sung. At the shopping malls
the stores are decorated with
wreaths, ribbons, and ornaments,
similar to the way they are
in the United States.
Local
Christian churches have special
Christmas celebrations on Christmas
Day. The churches are decorated
with either large artificial
Christmas trees (because large
pine trees do not exist in
Thailand) or with small pine
trees decorated with ornaments.
