Christmas Songs
This classic song opens with the line "I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away."
What is Last Christmas by Wham?
This dimension explains how much inequality in terms of power and influence the society is comfortable with.
What is power distance?
The metal which was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848.
What is gold?
This evergreen decoration is commonly hung on doors and is often made from fir branches, holly, or pinecones.
What is a Christmas wreath?
The word class which is used to describe a noun.
What is an adjective?
It tells the story of an animal who saved christmas with the use of its shiny red nose.
What is Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer?
The cultural dimension which contrasts competitive ambition and achievement societies with ones that focus more on empathy and caring for the weak.
What is Masculinity?
A simple process of seperating gold from sand and water using water and a simple tool.
What is gold panning?
In many countries, children hang stockings or place shoes out on Christmas Eve in the hope that this figure will leave gifts.
Who is Santa Claus?
The word class used to describe anything which is not a noun.
What is an adverb?
The American singer closely associated with christmas who only wants "you" for christmas.
Who is Mariah Carey?
The dimension which focuses on how much the freedom of each person is valued according to the needs of the population as a whole.
What is individualism?
Who was Edward Hargraves?
The country where the tradition of decorating a Christmas tree inside the home first became popular in the 16th century?
What is germany?
A sentence which puts the person which something happens to into the subject position.
What is a passive sentence?
This song includes the word "rock" and is about having a dance-party on christmas eve.
What is "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree"?
The dimension which describes how the culture balances looking for personal enjoyment, versus holding back.
What is restraint/indulgence?
The ethnicity of the largest group of non-european prospectors during the Australian Gold Rush.
What is Chinese?
What people often leave out for Santa to snack on.
What is milk and cookies?
The form of a noun used to show ownership of something.
What is possesive/genitiv?
A classic christmas song which, in recent years, has come under fire for pressuring the female character to stay the night.
What is "Baby its cold outside"?
When people are scared of the unknown and generally pessimistic about the opportunities of society, they have a high score in this dimension.
What is uncertainty avoidance?
The gold rush to a remote and cold area of the Yukon in Canada, which involved 100.000 prospectors, though only 30-40.000 made it all the way there.
What is the Klondike gold rush?
This Christmas tradition involves a large decorated log that was originally burned in the hearth and is the origin of a popular Christmas dessert in several European countries.
What is the yule log?
This is the grammatical mistake in the sentence “She enjoy to read books,” where the verb form is incorrect.
What is subject–verb agreement (kongruens)?