Don't you think people from other religious or cultural backgrounds should be able to choose what holidays

Question

Don't you think people from other religious or cultural backgrounds should be able to choose what holidays to celerbrate?
Like today is Roshashawna or however it is spelled the Jewish New Year. I have coworkers who have to take vacation or personal time to celerbrate it. Yet we are off for Christmas and they don't celerbrate that. I know in low level jobs this would be hard but in corparte america there should be away where they will be able to work even from home on Christmas so that they can get one of their days off and not use up their time. Personally I am a Christan American so i celerbrate all the holidays i get off but i am also Puerto Rican and i would gladly give up Presidents day to celerbrate one of the Puerto Rican holidays.

Answer 1

Don't you think people from other religious or cultural backgrounds should be able to choose what holidays to celebrate? First, I would like to say, no one stops you from celebrating, however you see fit on your time off. What you are really asking is, Should the government of the USA make it permissible for people to miss work for other culture's reasons or religious reasons. No. Why? I will tell you. One of the main reasons I say this is because this is America. We celebrate America's culturally important reasons, not others. If it were not like this it would be chaotic. Let's say the the government would start doing this and they give Puerto Rican people the option of taking off a certain day for a reason that is culturally important to them. They have just opened themselves up to discrimination lawsuits. They are singling out a certain race of people and giving them special treatment because of it. To prevent this, they would then be required to give every single American the option of missing work on this day. With all the different races and cultures in the USA, do you realize how many days a year employers would be required to give people off? Now onto the religious reasons. This is a bit more complicated. The government already provides people with the ability to miss work, if they are required to worship or attend religious ceremonies, during their working hours. This is fine, because if they didn't they would be infringing on people's rights. It isn't a right though, to miss work for strictly celebratory purposes. Should they declare every religion's special days as national holidays? Certainly not. This is entanglement of church and state. You will cite the fact that they have already made Christmas a national holiday. At the time this happened, 96% of the population in America, secular and non-secular alike, celebrated this holiday. This makes it a cultural celebration as well as religious, therefore fair game as a national holiday. It does not violate the separation of church and state. In conclusion, I would have to say that my overall answer to your question is no. People immigrate to America to become Americans. This means that you assimilate into the culture of this country, not expect it to change to the culture of the country you left. No one is requiring or even asking you to forget events, that are particularly important to you from your previous culture, we are asking that, as a citizen of this country, our holidays and nationally important days hold a higher priority.

Answer 2

It's both. Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. Some Jews play Christmas music and have parties. Some Muslims put out decorations in their stores during December. Atheists try desperately to get attention by being publicly anti-Christmas and making complete as ses of themselves. It's all part of the joy of the holiday. (I can't remember the last time I complained about Ramadan or May Day. Why would anyone be so infantile as to have a problem with a holiday? I just don't get it.)

Answer 3

It's Rosh Hashana. The Jewish new year. Happy New Year! May we all be sealed for a sweet and prosperous new year.

Well, as a Jewish person I can tell you that in order to be able to not have to come to work on our holy days that require us not to work, we have to choose our jobs very carefully. If a job won't let us take those holy days off, we go elsewhere if we can, get another job.

If we simply CAN'T go elsewhere, this is the job we need, then we work it out by taking vacation time, or sick days or something like that. Which isn't too great, but gotta do what you gotta do.

This country runs on Christian holidays mainly, so that's mainly how companies run their businesses. Gotta work around it, if necessary.

Answer 4

My husband's work has many jewish people that celebrate what ever holiday's they have... Some work first shift to compensate losing time.. They take personal time off to celebrate.. It wouldn't be right to have it paid since no one else gets it off.. However, I would like to see them work on Christmas with pay since they don't celebrate Christmas.. It would be a fair trade off since my husband works for all their holidays... I guess it's all in how you look at things.. Also, if we celebrated every nationality's holiday's it would be a difficult task indeed... Maybe at the start of the year have everyone fill out a request calendar and try to fill in requests as best as possible.. Or they can just take the day off. Personally, I don't care either way...

Answer 5

i think you make a good point. the answer is to have no holidays off.

Answer 6

yea i think we should be able to get off for our cultures,and religins holidays