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Christmas Ad
By: Aliph Date: December 9, 2019, 5:32 am
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Happy holidays to all of you.
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Re: Christmas Ad
By: Susan Date: December 15, 2019, 10:18 pm
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Happy Holidays! Would I offend people here if I added Merry
Christmas? or Happy Hanukka? I am afraid I don´t know the name
of Muslim or other religions´ holidays around this time of year.
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Re: Christmas Ad
By: Aliph Date: December 16, 2019, 7:34 am
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[quote author=Susan link=topic=1396.msg19648#msg19648
date=1576469886]
Happy Holidays! Would I offend people here if I added Merry
Christmas? or Happy Hanukka? I am afraid I don´t know the name
of Muslim or other religions´ holidays around this time of year.
[/quote]
Hi Susan, I love Christmas but where I live it has become
politically correct to wish “Happy holidays” to include those
who celebrate Hanukkah or no religious recurrence at all. As for
Muslims, their religious calendar is based on the lunar
calendar, they do not have any feast right now. I never
understood if they appreciate if a non-Muslim wishes them a
happy feast at the occasion of their own celebration. The ones I
know, mostly online teachers, LPs and people I met in language
courses, never ever wished me a happy Christmas :'(
It’s apparently against their religion, Jesus Christ is just a
prophet
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Re: Christmas Ad
By: NealC Date: December 16, 2019, 5:06 pm
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We grew up in a Jewish area, enough to know to wish them a Happy
New Year on Rosh Hashanah, or Happy Hanukkah in Dec.
I always wondered if they appreciated it, or if it made them
afraid that the gentiles knew who they were :-). Most Jewish
kids in school celebrated Hanukkah and Christmas, a lot of
families were mixed.
I know a few Moslems, and I wish them a happy end of Ramadan
(eid?). They usually get a kick out of that :-)
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Re: Christmas Ad
By: SHL Date: December 23, 2019, 11:08 am
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[quote author=NealC link=topic=1396.msg19662#msg19662
date=1576537600]
We grew up in a Jewish area, enough to know to wish them a Happy
New Year on Rosh Hashanah, or Happy Hanukkah in Dec.
I always wondered if they appreciated it, or if it made them
afraid that the gentiles knew who they were :-). Most Jewish
kids in school celebrated Hanukkah and Christmas, a lot of
families were mixed.
I know a few Moslems, and I wish them a happy end of Ramadan
(eid?). They usually get a kick out of that :-)
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Neal, don’t you have the wrong time of year for Ramadan?
I’m not a Muslim, but I heard something about Ramadan
being months ago, like in October/September?
I always disliked that “Happy Holidays” generic
euphemism. Just say what you mean. All this political correct
nonsense drives me nuts. If anyone is so hypersensitive to be
offended by a HAPPY/MERRY CHRISTMAS they need to get a life. I
think all this super sensitivity to other people’s beliefs
is silly. And I don’t think non-Christians were ever
offended by a Merry Christmas. Not even atheists. All that
“happy holidays” stuff started in the 1970s in the
US. It’s just as silly sounding now as it was then. So
afraid of offending someone when no one was offended in the
first place. Dumb.
And all that “Rosy Hashanah” stuff? I don’t
even know what that is. I heard of Hanukkah, but I never knew
what it is or is suppose to be for. I thought it was just some
kind of Jewish substitute for Christmas.
But then when I was growing up our town had about 40,000 people
in it, but we only had about 3 Jewish families in the whole
town, and maybe 5-10 black families. We had a few Asians and
quite a few Mexican families. We all knew who they were, but
really didn’t know them personally. I doubt any of them
cared about anyone saying Merry Christmas to them anyway.
The only ones who cared were the handful of Jehovah’s
Witnesses to be honest, because they don’t celebrate
anything, not even birthdays.
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