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Do I really need to express an opinion about how utterly stupid, narrow-minded, and exclude-ist this is? If Christmas were the only holiday celebrated in December, I might even be tempted to be outraged by the generic "Happy Holidays". But it is not. At least two others, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, also occupy the same time slot as Christmas. I, for one, would rather have "Happy Holidays" than nothing at all.
I do wonder how many of these people who get offended by including other celebrations under the "Holiday" banner actually know when the 12 days of Christmas are.
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Political correctness gone awry?
Though I must admit, I can't name the twelve days of Christmas either. We have something here called the "Rauhnächte" which start on Christmas Day and I have to let my stepmom explain those to me every two years ;-)
I don't remember "Rauhnächte", but it sounds like they cover the same period as the 12 days of Christmas - Christmas to Epiphany.
I suspect the only reason I know when the 12 days of Christmas are is because I spent the first seven Christmases of my life in Germany. I know I was very confused when we first moved to the States and people waited until the morning of the 25th to open presents and there were Christmas trees up before Christmas started.
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