Have you noticed that there are a lot of poinsettias around at the moment? Poinsettias are a very popular Christmas plant. Do you know the story of the poinsettia?
In Mexico, children take presents to their local churches at Christmas. The presents are for baby Jesus, whose birthday is celebrated at Christmas. The story says that a very poor child, Pepita, wanted to take a present too. But she didn't have any money to buy anything. She didn't have anything at all that she could give because her family was so poor. Not even a toy.
Pepita decided to pick some flowers as a present. But because it was winter there weren't any flowers. So she picked some weeds instead and took those.
PHOTO: CATHERINE THOMAS, TAIPEI TIMES
When she arrived at the church all the other children had nice presents. Pepita tried hard not to look at the other people as she went up and put down her gift. Suddenly, the weeds turned into a beautiful red plant!
Parents in Mexico explain to their children that a present given with love will always be beautiful, no matter what it is.
(CATHERINE THOMAS, STAFF WRITER)
你是否有注意到現在耶誕紅到處可見？耶誕紅是耶誕節很受歡迎的植物。你知道耶誕紅的故事嗎？
在墨西哥，耶誕節當天，小朋友會帶禮物到當地教堂慶祝耶穌基督的誕生。聽說有從前有一個名叫Pepita的小孩，也想要送禮物，但她一毛錢也沒有。她也沒有任何東西可以送人，因為她家很窮，連一個玩具都沒有。
Pepita決定採些花當作禮物，但是因為正值冬天，沒有什麼花，所以她摘了些野草當禮物。當她到了教堂，所有其他小孩都準備了精美的禮物。Pepita不管其他人的眼光，走向前並放下她的禮物。突然間，這些野草變成了美麗的紅色植物！
在墨西哥，父母親跟他們的小孩解釋說，充滿愛心的禮物，不管它是什麼，總是很漂亮。 （翻譯：楊鴻泰）
Historians are rethinking the way the Holocaust is being presented in museums as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the last Nazi concentration camps this month. Shocking images of the mass killings of Jews were “used massively at the end of World War II to show the violence of the Nazis,” historian Tal Bruttmann, a specialist on the Holocaust, told AFP. But in doing so “we kind of lost sight of the fact that is not normal to show” such graphic scenes of mass murder, of people being humiliated and dehumanized, he said. Up to this
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