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Birthdays are celebrated(庆祝) all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar(相似的): candles, cakes and birthday (wish). But there're also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here (be) a few:
Denmark: A flag is flown outside a window to show that people in that house are (have) a birthday. Parents place some presents around the (child) bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once he wakes up.
India: Usually Indian children wear white clothes to school. However, on (they) birthday children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class. Their best friend (help)them to do this.
Japan: The birthday child wears new clothes to show the special time. The (three) and seventh birthdays for girls and the fifth for boys are the most important.
Holland: The (birth) child gets a very large gift. The family also put flowers the birthday child's chair to make it beautiful.