Greta75
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ORIGINAL: Tkman117 I used to teach kids how to swim, and I usually said merry Christmas at first, but then realized that a lot of my students were Muslim or Indian and didn't celebrate Christmas. That's when I switched to saying happy holidays, because I didn't want these kids to feel like they were being excluded. Saying happy holidays isn't about being PC, to me it's more about not being arrogant to assume the other person celebrates the same holidays or has the same religion as you do, so why would I want to merry Christmas to someone who doesn't obviously celebrate Christmas? Seems like a waste of air when happy holidays gets the point across much better and with less confusion. This is the problem with societies who do not celebrate all minorities occasions, because they do not get holidays for minorities occasions. For us, Christmas, we say Merry christmas to hindus, buddhist, muslims, no problem at all. NOBODY gets offended. When it's their occasions, they wish us, Happy deepavali, Happy Hari Raya. We don't celebrate that shit, but we sure hell don't feel excluded and offended. It is the very definition of PC. And I live in a country where majority people are Buddhist by religion. Most of us don't even celebrate Christmas! It's seriously stupid to feel excluded over a word with kind thoughts like "Merry Christmas" from Christians. I mean are all of you non-muslims gonna scream that you are excluded when Muslims start wishing you Happy Hari Raya? Are you? Muslims here always wishes us all Happy Hari Raya! Think about how illogical this is? I don't agree with alot of things Muslims do, but wishing me Happy Hari Raya is the ONE GOOD THING that they actually do, because on that day, it's delivered with kind thoughts. Why is it only in western societies it becomes a sensitivity issue, but not in Asia where majority are not even Christians? If that is not because of PC, then I don't know what it is, because most Asian countries do not have PC problems.
< Message edited by Greta75 -- 12/14/2015 1:00:29 AM >
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