Society & Culture

Where has Christmas gone

Society & Culture

Posted by: Mustang17

27th Nov 2010 06:58am

The Child Centre where my daughter-in-law works will not be celebrating Christmas with the children as there are families who attend who dont believe in it. Last time I checked this was Australia and I grew up going to school and making Christmas gifts and easter bonnets as a way of life.
To me this is a tradition of the Australian way of life which we now have to change for a minority. It's not like we would go to their country of origin and demand that they celebrate our way of life.


Anonymous
  • 18th Dec 2010 08:53am

You are right - I see it on the news all the time - some school or other not celebrating Christmas - where have our traditions gone?!!!If you were to go overseas to the Netherlands you would still be celebrating the arrival of St Nick on Dec 6th arriving on a boat from Spain - he would have the Black Peters with him and the WHOLE country celebrates this TRADITION - no one gets all racist about it - no one gets all "WE don't believe in this" about it - they just CELEBRATE it as it has been a tradition in this country forever - there are other countries with similar traditions who still celebrate them - and if you don't like it then you don't go - you stay at home with your own beliefs and you don't join in - SIMPLE!!! I live in a small country town where the annual school concert has Christmas carols and Santa - over the yers we have had two families who don't believe in Christmas - it's fine - they attend the concert and when the carols start they go home - no one says anything - no one condems - we accept that that's what they believe - why can't the other nationalities with thier different religions do they same - why do we have to change things for the minorities - they come here - they have to accept that these are our traditions - accept them - you don't have to take part - but you don't try to change us either. Having said that it's not always these people who are the problem - it's the 'do gooders ' of this world who don't want to offend - understand this people THIS IS AUSTRALIA!!! clogwog


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