with the whole PC movement to replace the word christmas with holiday, but what are these people calling the actual holiday? (im assuming they still celebrate christmas)
2007-12-18 05:43:41 · 9 answers · asked by jay4 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Yule, Winter Solstice or Pagan. Best Wishes!
2007-12-18 05:51:34 · answer #1 · answered by Cupid 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Umm - no it's not a PC movement to replace Christmas with Holiday -- it's that some of us celebrate Yule or Solstice or Kwanza, or Hannaka -- Not Christmas. Happy Holidays acknowledges all of the holidays celebrated around the end of the December (around the winter solstice). Personally, I celebrate Solstice/Yule and Christmas (for my family). I call Christmas what it is - Christmas (even though it's just Yule dressed up in different clothes). So Christmas doesn't offend me and saying Merry Christmas is not an issue for me (I say it all the time). What upsets me is people who get upset when someone says Happy Holidays. Why is it so wrong to acknowledge everyone and accept that Christmas is not the only holiday where Yule trees are decorated, families get together, feasts are prepared, and gifts are exchanged? That's my question.
2007-12-18 06:04:14 · answer #2 · answered by swordarkeereon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I call holidays by their names. Christmas is still Christmas, Yule is Yule, winter solstice is winter solstice. If I know what the person I'm greeting celebrates at this time of the year then I include the name of their holiday in the greeting. Happy Yule, Merry Christmas, whatever fits what they're going to be celebrating.
If I have no clue what they will be celebrating, then I don't think it's such a bad idea to just say "happy holidays".
Think of it this way: Would it not come across as kind of weird if at the time Muslims have Ramadan, staff in all shops would be wishing you a happy Ramadan, even though you are not a Muslim? It's the same with non-Christians being told "Merry Christmas". It's usually not meant badly, but it can come across as weird and irrelevant. Since late December is the season when so many religions celebrate something, I think it makes sense to wish people "happy holidays", in order to be more general, if you don't know which holidays they celebrate. It's nicer to wish everyone nice holidays rather than focusing just on one group. You don't have to believe the same as them, but you can still wish them well for whatever they are celebrating.
2007-12-19 22:39:45 · answer #3 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm anti-Christmas and I still call it Christmas. Tis the name of the holiday I despise, I wouldn't call it anything else.
2007-12-18 05:51:35 · answer #4 · answered by Corey D. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My grandma doesn't celebrate christmas she just acts like it is another day. But she still says Christmas. I think that just because you don't celebrate it doesn't mean that you can't say it.
2007-12-18 05:53:37 · answer #5 · answered by Razzle Dazzle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Xmas
2007-12-18 06:00:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
X-Mas or holiday season.. Poor lost souls...
2007-12-18 05:49:35 · answer #7 · answered by Randy K 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
just another day... December 25th
2007-12-18 05:51:00 · answer #8 · answered by Leigh Ann 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
xmas.
2007-12-18 07:48:07 · answer #9 · answered by dαncєr<3 [єrín] 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋