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| WiiFan | Dec 10 2006, 04:53 PM Post #1 |
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I was discussing this on another board and decided to get your people's opinions also. Do you think it's correct to call that break from school or work, "Christmas" break? Or should it be called "Winter break" or "Holiday break"? As for me I'm going with Holiday break, because it's happening at the time Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, and all those holidays take place. Some feel that it should be "Christmas break" as Christmas is the most popular holiday. Well, then it's not really respecting the other holidays tbh and those who do celebrate the Christmas alternatives feel like their holiday isn't really worth it. I celebrate Christmas, but I'll still call it "Holiday break" to show respect to those who DON'T celebrate Christmas. What are you feelings? |
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| icemaster | Dec 10 2006, 04:57 PM Post #2 |
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Christmas Break! I hate the holiday semantics now and days - everything has to be "poltically correct". |
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| Hero of Dreams | Dec 10 2006, 04:58 PM Post #3 |
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If we can call it "Halloween" we can call this "Christmas." It's been that way for years. |
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| Dae Lærke | Dec 10 2006, 05:00 PM Post #4 |
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We've always called it "winter break" where I live, and I never really thought of it otherwise. I realise it's there due to the Holidays, but because for a time I celebrated no winter holidays I never really thought of it as a holiday break at all. Truthfully, I don't think it really matters what it's called. I'm not Christian but it has never bothered me to hear it called "Christmas break," since that's what so many people seem to celebrate, even if I don't celebrate it myself. When people tell me to have a nice Christmas break, I'll tell them to have a nice winter break. Similarly, when people wish me Merry Christmas, I'll wish them a Happy Yule. I've never really thought twice about it. |
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| KHRIS423 | Dec 10 2006, 05:09 PM Post #5 |
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I go with that as well. |
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| Jean-Luc Godard | Dec 10 2006, 05:49 PM Post #6 |
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make trade fair
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I, personally don't see the big deal in calling it a Christmas Break since Christianity is the dominant religion practiced in the US, but I can see how people could take offense to the term. So I just think its a way to cover the school/company/whatever 's ass from legal issues. |
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| Wesley | Dec 10 2006, 06:04 PM Post #7 |
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Christmas break. I'm kind of sick of it being "improper" to call it that pretty much everywhere now a days. I'll call it christmas as that's what I celebrate, everyone else can call it whatever they want.
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| OcelotJay-ZNR | Dec 10 2006, 07:17 PM Post #8 |
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I am kitteh, hear me purr. =(^_^)=
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The question assumes that there is a matter of correction and incorrection afoot here. There's really not. Impropriety doesn't play a role in how we refer to a time of the year, it's more a sociological thing. You call it what you want to call it, just as I can wish you a happy Freezing-Your-Ass-Off season. It might turn a few heads but it's neither incorrect (depending on your geography) nor improper, just different from the usual.
Holiday break seems pretty ambiguous, given so many breaks have numerous celebrations at one time or another, but the reasoning is perfectly legit. ![]()
It's not disrespectful. Look at the Wikipedian calendar, or any calendar that marks every event known to man, and you'll discover numerous events take place during the same periods of the year. We call the periods of celebration or break by whatever name we associate with the most. The best used names are usually due to tradition more than anything - so in a country that has celebrated Christmas for centuries it's likely to be the name used. People should be more concerned about the value and meaning behind their celebrations being lost in commercialisation rather than it being up in neon lights on the public calendar. If you say Monday and I say Middas, are we on two different worlds or merely sharing different names of the same timezone based on our beliefs? |
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| Initial. | Dec 10 2006, 09:16 PM Post #9 |
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XD You Clicked It.
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feel free to call it haunakkuh(sp) break if you're jewish or kwanza break if you feel it appropriate. it wont offend me or make me feel disrespected any more than me saying christmas break should offend you. |
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| Numark | Dec 10 2006, 09:21 PM Post #10 |
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If you get offended, grow up. That's all i can honestly say. I am so sick of people whining about every little things. People whine about sports team names and are so easily offended by anything. Now, america is so careful not to offend muslims, arabs, blacks, or women. Its so annoying, epically since I am a white, male, christian meaning you can take all the shots at me and i don't care. If you just got offended by what I said, o well. I dont care. |
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| .Jason | Dec 10 2006, 09:23 PM Post #11 |
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I call it Christmas Break. |
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| Alithia | Dec 10 2006, 10:00 PM Post #12 |
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I don't particularly care. We call all our holidays, just that. Holidays. We don't call ours "winter break" and things like that. Although I don't mind. Honestly, I think people understand that we been doing it for years so there's really no need to change it to be politically correct.
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| freedomfighters | Dec 10 2006, 10:11 PM Post #13 |
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Yes, Christmas Break is mostly for me. Even greeting people who find it offenvise to greet them or say the term. But really, Get a grip and ignore it. It's Christmas Lad. |
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| Postulate | Dec 11 2006, 12:32 AM Post #14 |
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You're the point
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Eh, calling it "holiday break" is more offensive than "Christmas Break" to me. If the point of political correctness is to preserve cultures, why blend them into one grey, tasteless pot? It's not as if I get offended when someone says "Happy Chanukah" – let people believe and celebrate what they want. That being said, in my school district has always called it "Winter Break." This applies even though the break doesn't even cover Chanukah anymore – it's based around Christmas. >_> |
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| AgnosticAngel | Dec 11 2006, 02:28 AM Post #15 |
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I honestly do not care what it is called. I'm Atheist but I am not offended when someone wishes me a Merry Christmas or tells me to have a good Christmas break. I take it as a general sentiment of wellwishing and leave it at that. Just the same I am not offended when someone says "bless you" when I sneeze or anything like that. It's just a name, doesn't matter much to me what you call it. |
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