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meanwhile they cry a tantrum when Starbucks uses red cups.
they are the most fragile people on the planet
The War on Christmas is absolutely real and it is the height of ignorance to pretend otherwise. To be crystal clear Christmas is the 12 day season between 12/25 and 1/6. Anyone complaining about people not saying "Merry Christmas" outside of 12/25-1/6 is talking about the wrong season.
Advent starts with the first of four Sundays before Christmas day. This is typically after American thanksgiving has taken place and is the actual season that is going on when people complain about "The War on Christmas". The proper greeting for this season will refer to Advent and not Christmas because 12/1-12/23 is not Christmas.
To sum up there is a War on Christmas and the aggressors are the ones bitching about people not saying Merry Christmas during Advent.
sometimes I see Christmas decorations in November!!!
i saw stores putting a Christmas section, then taking it down for Halloween, then putting the Christmas section back.
Christmas must respect the Halloween borders!
I'm so grateful that we don't celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving here, because that means that stores actually start selling Christmas cookies in September. I was finally able to refill my strategic Spekulatius reserve this week.
i get the hate for American Halloween spreading around the world.
i lived in Scotland for a while and that was a common sentiment, except from actually Scottish people because most Halloween traditions are Scottish, and now they get the English trying to stop them.
that's a traditional Scottish jack-o'-lantern
I have no hate for Halloween. We have a similar tradition here in northern Germany called Rummelpott (rumble pot): At new years eve, the kids dress up, go from house to house making noise with their rumbling pot and singing a song asking for treats.
That custom does slowly fall out of fashion and gets replaced by Halloween, but I think the decline of Rummelpott started before and independently of the rise of Halloween, so no reason for hate.
The only thing I really dislike is the aggressiveness of Trick-or-treat. With Rummelpott it was great if you got a chocolate, but if someone couldn't give or didn't want to, it was fine as well. But on Halloween you're kind of extorted to give something. Some older kids have even committed malicious property damage with their "trick" part in the past, but I feel like that's gotten slightly better since the news started reporting the criminal charges some of these teens were facing.
I'm Scotland, my neighbour accidentally created our own tradition.
practically all the street goes together on a single group, adults and children alike, was so much fun. we never arranged it so, but we ended up doing that one day then it kept on growing.