Happy Season of Celebrations 2021

[TronRP]

To All Celebrating the Season of Giving Thanks

 

Everyone stay safe during this hectic time.

[Scary Guy]

"Season of Celebrations"?  Really?

 

Okay, now you know I hate holidays...  However for as long as I can remember "Happy Holidays" was the all inclusive secular option not meant to be terribly offensive to anyone.  I generally accept it though because at least they're trying to be respectful of the beliefs of others and not say the other thing.

 

I suppose whatever it's called doesn't matter though.  However I do believe that celebrations should not be limited to one season or time, which is what this sounds like.

In any case, thanks for the attempt.  I guess no matter what I'm just not going to be happy

[TronRP]

48 minutes ago, Scary Guy said:

"Season of Celebrations"?  Really?

 

Okay, now you know I hate holidays...  However for as long as I can remember "Happy Holidays" was the all inclusive secular option not meant to be terribly offensive to anyone.  I generally accept it though because at least they're trying to be respectful of the beliefs of others and not say the other thing.

 

I suppose whatever it's called doesn't matter though.  However I do believe that celebrations should not be limited to one season or time, which is what this sounds like.

In any case, thanks for the attempt.  I guess no matter what I'm just not going to be happy

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Dude, I panicked!!! 

 

Initially this was going to be a Thanksgiving post, but every time I do that, the OP is followed by remarks of killing turkeys...either on the board or face to face.  So I tried to improvise.

 

~A couple of years ago, you couldn't say "Happy Holidays".

~When I first started posting on DGN, I accidently posted "Merry Christmas"...I am sorry, but I still do not completely understand certain regional "humor" and the responses to that thread shook me a bit.

~A few years back, I said "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays" to a female White receptionist at an appointment.  She looked at Trene and I with a shocked expression on her face and said, "Don't you do that Kwanza?"  (I have no idea what Kwanzaa is supposed to celebrate, but apparently, it's for Black people?)

~I was out shopping at the mall on December 2nd this year and said "Happy Holidays" to the cashier as I was leaving DICK's.  She looked like she could chew nails then said "You too".

 

Needless to say, after my entire life, I am now cautious of acknowledging any holiday that comes after Halloween because you can do and say just about anything you want and dress anyway you like during October and people just laugh at how shocked and caught off guard they were.  People expect to be scared or to see something "interesting" whether they celebrate Halloween or not.

 

 

Given that my family was separated by states, countries and continents, because literally one half of it is Military, any holiday celebration and birthday, when we could come together, was special.  And it was generally like that for the community where we grew up and the schools we attended in our area.

 

Needless to say, I had a very rude awakening when I started University life in my mid-twenties.  It's like everyone was entitled to their own opinion as long as you accepted, and did not contradict, the opinion of the loudest person who was cursing any and everything that had to do with holidays, social gatherings and religion.  I learned to shut the "F" up as I had been told.

 

Decades later, DGN is the first place I actually posted anything regarding holidays, but here, I've learned to brace for it.

😏

[TronRP]

I started to name this thread "Happy End of the Year Season of Celebrations" because when I was in Japan, you celebrated Oseibo which is year end gifts given in December.  They do not have Thanksgiving or a true Christmas.  They give out gifts of appreciation at the close of every year.  Very simple.

[Scary Guy]

That's what I get for reading it late, although my ADHD ass would probably still have made the same mistake.

I'm pretty sure they've been doing Christmas in Japan for a while now.  Not all over, but there is this Asian obsession with western culture sometimes, and also expats who now live abroad too, and corporations trying to sell more things to people.  I'm sure it's mostly regional and small though if anything.

 

As for this...  I guess be more specific next time.

 

I am still laughing about the Kwanzaa thing.  I mean at least it's funny tone deaf racism and not the hatred  because different racism, not that either are good but one is slightly less bad at least.  Hope you schooled that lady.

 

 

[TronRP]

4 hours ago, Scary Guy said:

That's what I get for reading it late, although my ADHD ass would probably still have made the same mistake.

I'm pretty sure they've been doing Christmas in Japan for a while now.  Not all over, but there is this Asian obsession with western culture sometimes, and also expats who now live abroad too, and corporations trying to sell more things to people.  I'm sure it's mostly regional and small though if anything.

 

As for this...  I guess be more specific next time.

 

I am still laughing about the Kwanzaa thing.  I mean at least it's funny tone deaf racism and not the hatred  because different racism, not that either are good but one is slightly less bad at least.  Hope you schooled that lady.

 

 

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I remember watching that when it first aired.  We cracked up for days.

 

And yes.  They do celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas in Japan.  We celebrated it while we were there, it's just they have a very different meaning.  By tradition, Japan has 2 gift giving seasons that everyone learns in school: 

Ochugen - Summer Gift

Oseibo - Year End Gift

 

As Japan has several multicultural communities (they have about as many German Towns as the U.S.  has China Towns), they also celebrate everything from Hanukkah to Oktoberfest.  However, the entire country shuts down for Golden Week (which is usually the last week in April).