In many neighborhoods in New York, immigrant and ethnic cultures have their own traditional ways of showing this season’s spirit.
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![Twelve year old Rhiannon Larsen played the Saint in this year’s Sanka Lucia procession, a mainstay of Brooklyn’s Scandinavian-American community. (Adam Phillips/VOA)](https://gdb.voanews.com/E67F76C0-8F3C-45E0-9C86-BAFA061A968C_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Twelve year old Rhiannon Larsen played the Saint in this year’s Sanka Lucia procession, a mainstay of Brooklyn’s Scandinavian-American community. (Adam Phillips/VOA)
![Two little girls from Brooklyn, New York, dressed in traditional Norwegian clothes. (Adam Phillips/VOA)](https://gdb.voanews.com/8A111E4B-7124-4BB2-89A0-86A0A9DF6DDE_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Two little girls from Brooklyn, New York, dressed in traditional Norwegian clothes. (Adam Phillips/VOA)