Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from county to country: candles, cakes, and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few: DenmarkA flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child‘s bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once when he wakes up.IndiaUsually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class. Their best friends help them to do this. JapanThe birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh for girls and fifth for boys. Holland The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also puts flowers on the birthday child‘s chair to make it beautiful. When someone is having a birthday in Denmark, you can see a flag in the house. In Holland, flowers are put on the chair of the birthday child. In India, only birthday children wear colored clothes to school. In Japan, the birthday is more important for boys when they are 7. The passage is mainly about different ways of celebrating birthdays in some countries.