Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "Modern Classics Summarized: A Christmas Carol" video.

Fun fact: A Christmas Carol is the main reason why Christmas is almost always depicted in the northern hemispheric English-speaking world as snowy. Dickens' childhood was during both the tail end of the Little Ice Age and an extreme volcanic winter due to the eruption of Mt. Tambora, and thus incorporated it into his work. In England and especially London today, white Christmases are very rare, so white Christmases in Britain basically exist as an anachronistic legacy of this work. However, many Britons I've come to encounter assume this is equally true of the US if not more so for how much further south the country is and how much hotter the summers are. Many have been shocked by the reality of a midwestern winter.
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@jlokison As a Californian who attended elementary school in the dark days before anyone cared about La Soberanía, I had something of the opposite experience. I was taught from an early age that we were bizarre Mediterranean aberrations who barely deserved to be called Americans. We learned all about East Coast nature and weather and indigenous peoples, and all we ever learned about California was Missions->Gold Rush->Japanese Internment, the end.
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