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⌈ Secret Post #3259 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I'm the Canadian anon. Most of my friends are Jewish or Hindu, and none of them celebrate Thanksgiving. The only people I know who celebrate Thanksgiving are Christians. Like I said to another anon in this thread, it could be a regional thing.

Obviously I don't know about the holiday-related habits of EVERY SINGLE PERSON in Canada, so yeah, it was dumb of me to make a generalization like that in my original comment. I can only speak from my own experience, and in my experience, non-Christians don't celebrate Thanksgiving.

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[(Anonymous)]

So Thanksgiving's a Christian holiday in Canada? I didn't know that, but OK. Regardless, someone here (I'm not keeping track of who's the same anon who said what anymore) said it was a Christian "United Statesian" (ugh) holiday, and that's wrong. It's not a Christian holiday in America.

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that most people of other religions - particularly ones who immigrated here, as opposed to being born here - seem unlikely to celebrate our North American holidays. I just don't agree that it's because those holidays are Christian holidays. In some cases, when the holiday is actually a religious one (unlike Thanksgiving), religion can certainly play a part, but I don't think it's the only reason and for many non-celebrators I don't even think it's the main reason they don't celebrate.

I think the people who don't celebrate these holidays don't celebrate them mainly because they have no personal history with celebrating them. It's not that the holiday doesn't mean anything to them on a religious level; it's that the holiday doesn't mean anything to them on a personal level. Take Christmas for example. A person who never celebrated Christmas growing up doesn't have childhood memories of helping put up Christmas lights, and decorate a Christmas tree, and wrapping presents in Christmas colored paper and struggling with the tape, and peeling the backing off a brand new bow, and seeing presents pile up under the tree, and looking at all the tags to see which presents were for them, and helping make Christmas baking, and begging their mothers for a candy cane off the tree, and all those completely secular things that go into making up the tradition of Christmas.

None of those things - those secular traditions - have personal meaning to people who never celebrated Christmas growing up, and so they don't have the same draw. It doesn't take religion to move people. Nostalgia and memory and habit and repetition are immensely powerful motivators.

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[diet_poison]

This is a really good comment.

(And you're making me wish I had my Christmas tree up!)