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Did Your Holidays Breach Cultural Divides This Year?

DEC. 28, 2017

The Yadav family decorating at home in Delhi. One parent is a Muslim; the other is Hindu. Their son wants a typewriter for Christmas. (He said he likes the sound made punching the keys.) Poras Chaudhary for The New York Times

In much of the world, this has been another year of battles over identity and belonging. But not in every corner, and not in every home. We would like to hear from readers who accepted an invitation this holiday season to celebrate cross-culturally, with friends or family members from another religion or ethnic group. Perhaps you celebrated this holiday for the first time, celebrated it differently this time or have celebrated with this group before.

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How was this holiday different for you? *

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