No more school christmas pagents No more wishing Merry Christmas No more christmas trees on the walks of the street I HATE THIS TIME OF YEAR (honestly this is my favorite time of year, but living in the united states i've become more and more bitter towards it, or more the people and their stinking additudes about it) I miss canada, a place where a muslin would cheer you a merry christmas after leaving a 7-eleven(tee hee hee) When i was in high school a new teacher SHOCKED the school when he put up a christmas tree in his classroom, teh school officials got all over him (he just dind't know the rules) and they scoped out every tiny nook and crany of the tree to make sure there was not a single religious symbol on the tree, no angels, to santas. Luckily he was cheap and he just went for lights, little presents and candy canes, ~Phew~ When in university, I did a little test, I went around wishing people a "merry christmas" here are the reactions i got "oh um happy holidays" "oh have a good break" ~sneeer~ "OMG I LOVE YOU" ~hugs!!!~ (this was from a school official becuase she's not allowed to say christmas at all) Seattle Airport will no longer be putting up christmas trees in their airport why? cause last year a Rabi came in asking if they could put up a Menorah to also represent Hanukkah And the airport officals decide to prevent any kind of discrimination lawsuits to just take down the trees RIDICULOUS even the Rabi said on the news, "I didn't want them to take down the trees, just add a display and promote our holiday as well" (seeee share the love) Why can't schools promote ALLL holidays, and teach about both the birth of christ, the customs of the holiday in africa, the jews and their 40 days of oil, and SANTA! call it a multicultural experiance I'm so sad that my favorite holiday is becoming so horrible
Not surprising cuz you are in the US with the lawsuits and all. Thats the problem nowadays in America is that there's too much "freedom" and eventually, when you come to think, you actually lose the freedom cuz at any given time, you can be sued for any idiocy. -sweat
I don't know where you are getting this, but here in NY people put up "Merry Christmas" everywhere. In fact my niece and nephew is doing a play about Jesus for their school. They have a big Christmas tree in the lobby of the school with stars, angels and etc on it. People wish me a "Merry Christmas" almost every year and I don't see that changing. Its just your misconception.
hmmm i always thought xmas was like super overdone in USA....but ok...perhaps not.... here in NL were not that xmas-ish yet....we celebrate some other dudes (some kinda santa wannabe from spain) bday at 5th of dec and all the kids get gifts etc.... thats the guy with his "helps" lol...this holiday is quite popular here... after that....all the trees etc are all over the place
@master g he is a holy man from turkey lol.... hahaha knoc...i'll translate the name for u.... their called "zwarte piet" which literally means "black pete" just white ppl who painted their face black, wear red lipstick, black tights and afro wigs....=/ & what a coincidence..their "sinterklaas" little helps...kinda like santa has elfs to help him out they climb up the roofs while kids sleep and sneak into ppls houses to leave gifts in kids' shoes while "sinterklaas" rides his white horse over the roof tops i kid u not...dutch ppl make up the weirdest shit hahaha
i think that's called blackface and ganguro in japanese (heard it was quite popular there), some funny shit haha... I think there are classes if you want to learn about jesus and cause it violates some freedom rights if they promote certain things people don't give a crap about but i think we wouldn't have that much time to celebrate all holidays cause that would be like everyday is a holiday lol. Anyways i think christmas is still pretty much alive in U.S. lol thats like the only holiday people focus on during november to the end of the year...
wait few more days.. then you see "sinterklaas" crawling all over the place and dont bee stupid man.. christmas is like 1 month away.. and im already seeing christmas tree infront of ikea and stuff! sinterklaas havent even started and you can all kinda stuff for christmas :S
