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Mexicans celebrate New Year’s Eve, by downing a grape with each of the twelve chimes of the bell during the midnight countdown, while making a wish with each one.
USA – New Year’s Eve is an occasion celebrated with elegant formal parties and family-oriented activities; New Year’s Day is a public holiday in the United States. Celebrations include an American tradition of dropping or raising an item of worth.
In Austria, New Year’s Eve is usually celebrated with friends and family. At exactly midnight, all radio and television programmes operated by ORF broadcast the sound of the Pummerin (bell of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna), and right after that the “Donauwalzer” (“The Blue Danube”) by Strauss is played, which many people dance to at parties or on the street.
Many Danish people go to parties or entertain guests at home. The evening meal is more exclusive than usual, with desserts including the marzipan ring cake Kransekage along with champagne, and mains including boiled cod, or stewed kale and cured saddle of pork.
Most Russians celebrate New Year’s Eve with their families and close friends. The celebration usually starts one or two hours before midnight and the common tradition is to “say farewell to the old year” by remembering most important events of the last twelve months. At five minutes to twelve most of the people watch the president’s speech on TV or watch popular New Year TV shows . There is a tradition to listen to the Kremlin clock bell (Kuranty) ringing twelve times on the radio or on TV. During these last 12 seconds of the year people keep silence and make their secret wishes for the next year.
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