Much of our Christmas exhuberance comes from the German side. Authentic colonial “English” Christmases will not actually feature that much decoration or anything.
Interesting about internment camps; I’d like to know more but basically what I get is that Germans and Italians were also due to go to camps. Probably like you said, natives, but either way it ended up limited (probably partly it wasn’t easy to pick them out - wonder if any Chinese in CA got camped). My mom’s family (or dad’s - totally different locales) NOR her best-friend Italian family never had any trouble in WWII. There was more “discrimination” in WWI against mom’s family meat plant.
And how about those Italians? All they get is Columbus Day. Is this fair? After they invented Pizza and copied Spaghetti from the Chinese? See! How’s it feel to have your ideas ripped off, China? Spaghetti, gun powder and Marco Polo. All grabbed by one Italian. No wonder you infected Italy worst.