Especially in the US and UK.
In these countries, you can't organise carol concerts in some schools for fear of offending someone or another. You can't mention Christmas without mentioning Hannukah and Kwanza too. And finally, the Christmas Holiday is renamed "Winter Vacation" for reasons of "inclusiveness". Bah!
By the way, I'm Buddhist and I lived in Hong Kong for 5 years. In Hong Kong, I celebrated Christmas, my school celebrated Christmas. We sang carols, we decked our halls with broughs of holly... we even had a creche. And no, we weren't Christian, but by god, WE HAD FUN!
So why are some people, especially Jews and Muslims, so sensitive about Christmas? Why not just go along with the flow and have fun?
Hey, I'm Buddhist, and I love Christmas. I always wish everyone a "Merry Christmas" and I'll always call it the "Christmas Holiday" and never "Winter Vacation".
2007-01-16 04:37:43 · 13 answers · asked by Flo Chen 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
I know what you mean. I definitely do not believe in any of the religious side of Christmas, nor Christianity or anything like that. However I still celebrate Christmas, because it a bit of fun at the end of a year. And I don't call it "Gift Exchanging Time Period Non-Dependant on Religion". I call it Christmas. I'm not Christian and I don't care, why do the Jew/Muslims etc. They're just trying to exploit all of this political-correctness stuff of these days.
2007-01-16 04:50:56 · answer #1 · answered by Rich 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The primary reason that schools are "iffy" on the whole situation with Christmas is the parents of the children who attend the schools. A minority of them (in most cases) have their poor little feelings hurt because they are afraid that their child will feel left out during Christmas celebrations. However, I'm betting that if you hand a kid from any religion a free present, they'll gladly accept it.
People need to just lighten up.
2007-01-16 05:52:23 · answer #2 · answered by kenrayf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it sad... in places like where I live we can call the holiday Hannuka or Kwanza but no one gets offended. If someone were to walk up to me and mention these holidays there would be no problem in my eyes. But only Christmas and the name of Jesus offends people... it's really twisted. Some people can't even put up a christmas tree without offending someone but if someone has a menora up and someone gets offended and asks to them to take it down it's not right.
2007-01-16 04:50:13 · answer #3 · answered by Andrea 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because PC has become what it was trying to overcome.
I'm not Christian but I see nothing wrong with school concerts performing Christmas carols or Hanukkah songs.
2007-01-16 04:40:58 · answer #4 · answered by FaerieWhings 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all about being "politically correct." Not wanting to step on any toes or hurt anyone's feelings by having them feel left out. We've all become a bunch of wussies if you ask me. Everybody has their panties in a wad about stupid stuff like this and it takes the focus off of real issues like children starving & people dying of preventable disease.
And I would like to wish you a very MERRY (belated) CHRISTMAS!!!
2007-01-16 04:45:33 · answer #5 · answered by Pamela 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because, unlike in a culture like Japan, Christianity is pushed on everyone through things like school celebrations. This has led to a severe backlash. If Christians didn't push so hard in all areas of life, the innocent school concerts wouldn't be a big deal. The fact that you can't get away from it, but should be able to in a government run entity, is the main reason.
2007-01-16 04:42:14 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Because people have forgotten who to put first in their lives. With out CHRIST, there would be no CHRISTmas.
People are worrying about offending someone, and inturn they are offending GOD.
I say merry CHRISTMAS wether people like it or not.
2007-01-16 04:46:54 · answer #7 · answered by mag 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's more of the fear of lawsuits by gready lawyers who prey on the weak, misunderstood, sick, and religiously insane to drive their need for riches .
America and UK are lawsuit happy and lawyers feed like the parasites they are on this holliday celebration and use it as an excuse to express their sick desire to change things to suit themselves.
2007-01-16 04:44:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have parent humbugs that they are afraid of.
Gotta be politically correct and all that stuff.
And heaven forbid that anyone offend one of them - it's far better (so they tell us) to inconvenience 50,000,000 citizens who want a Christmacy Christmas.
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2007-01-16 04:53:20 · answer #9 · answered by james 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It'd only be 'fun' if the Christians all celebrated the Muslim and Jewish holidays too. You can't exclude the others' holidays from public celebration.
2007-01-16 04:42:14 · answer #10 · answered by buster 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋