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GLÖGG AND REINDEERS and knitted booties are holiday-magical in theory. In practice, however, these selling points of a holiday trip—along with pop-up skating rinks, folksy craft markets and vintage-model-train events—can seem tacky or generic. How special is that ornament you just bought if every stand in your host country sells identical ones? Isn’t that hotel turkey dinner similar, though frankly inferior, to what you can get at home? Most of us travel to experience something different and remarkable and photographable, but the holidays can bring out the sameness in places, obscuring the local culture we’ve strenuously…