Seeing the logo over on the Drupal site started this off.
Oh pleeeaaaase. What’s got into everyone this year? The festival at this time is known as Christmas, therefore wishing Happy Christmas is correct. Countries such as Oman who don’t celebrate Christmas don’t have time off at this year, so Happy Holidays rubs their nose into the dirt even more.
Now assuming the fuss is because it’s a (supposedly) religious festival, if we’re going to call this Happy Holidays are members of other religions going to relabel their main festival to also be called Happy Holidays? Because you know I could get offended by seeing Happy Chanakuh or any islamic greeting, so they’d better change! Should I end up living in Saudi Arabia I hope they take note - they’d better not offend the minorities!
Perhaps more so, the U.S. festival of Thanksgiving should be changed so that one country’s holiday doesn’t offend everyone else. Being wished Happy Thanksgiving on mailing lists is so annoying; it’s not something I’ve ever celebrated or ever intend to celebrate. So rename it “Happy Thursday” and stop offending the rest of the world.
And how about the U.S. celebration of Independence Day? We don’t jubilantly mark winning the second world war every year or Nelson beating France, so cut your egos and stop celebrating beating the British. Grow up OK?
Thank you, and have a Happy Christmas!
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And a Merry Christmas to you too
’sides, I don’t have any vacations…
I put off responding for a while, but I do feel the need to reply.
Turn the comment around: Why are you offended that people want to embrace celebrating multiple holidays?
Just because *your* “main festival” is Christmas, does not change, reduce, or alter the fact that substantial parts of the US celebrate other holidays in that same time period.
From Hanukkah to Yule, Kwanza, and more, the list goes on. Lets not even get bogged down in the fact that in a majority of countries, Christianity isn’t the largest religion, or even celebrated widely.
Saying Happy Holidays doesn’t reduce the honor, tradition, or importance of Christmas! It simply embraces reality - we are not all following the same religion.
Happy Holidays is simply more inclusive, and allows more people to celebrate the season, which is indeed joyous.
We tend to say ‘Merry Christmas’ or ‘Happy Holidays’ (because there are several occuring together). ‘Happy Christmas’ is fairly uncommon in the USA.
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