Re: Country Related: Christmas
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 23, 1998, 20:45 |
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On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > The actual phrase "happy holidays" may well be older than the 15 or more
> > years of political correctness.
>
> I've never even thought of that phrase as PC. Even Christians celebrate
> two holidays in close proximity - Christmas and New Year's.
>
But I can remember when tv commercials and store adverts, etc., etc.
explicitly had "Christmas" and "New Year". Anymore, I've _not_ seen the
word Christmas in such contexts in quite a number of years. It may all
have been an odd coincidence that the rise of the PC phenomenon
(regardless of its origins) and the move towards "holiday" this and that
occurred at the same time.
Once I became aware of what the PC proponents were after in other areas
(postal carrier, instead of mailman; Indigenous American, instead of
Indian), Happy Holidays just seemed another cog in the works.