Halloween Party Costume

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1. billyndave - July 17, 2010 at 2:25 am

   my answer is short-ish,"neutral holiday trend" is pushed by small minded people, who sit in an office all day trying to justify their position in government or society, thus thinking up society damaging statements which in the main only continues to promote seperatism and breed zenophobia in all who never realised that you offend others by saying "Christmas Lights" or partake in other faith/race celebrations.

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2. Miss Awkward Silences - July 17, 2010 at 2:25 am

   The acceptance of multiculturalism is the main reason for the neutral holiday trend.

   In the last century, immigrants to the Western world were expected to start their life anew and be part of the melting pot… it was expected of them that they would be some type of christian and would have similar values to less recent citizens.

   Nowadays, we accept that people coming in our country have different values and beliefs and that they can still be great Americans (or Canadians or British or wherever you are from) even though they don’t share all the same beliefs as we do.

   As Christmas is the most important holiday of the year, it seems important to include everybody in the festivities, not only christians.

   People from other religions can be uncomfortable to celebrate a holiday for another religion so a more neutral theme and name was needed to include everyone.

   As for Halloween… I haven’t heard much about the need to ban it. I would say it probably comes from religious people who feel a holiday celebrating the dead, witches and zombies is pagan and close to witchcraft.

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