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Who Stole Put back Christmas?
Well, there's plenty of Czech stuff to write about, so I promise I'll stop doing all this news stuff someday. But finally, some perspective on Christmas.
Regarding a move (by Fox news anchors and some conservative Christian groups) to boycott stores that don't advocate "Merry" Christamses, and other things:
"They claim that the 'traditional' American Christmas is under attack by what John Gibson, another Fox anchor, calls 'professional atheists' and 'Christian haters.' But America has a complicated history with Christmas, going back to the Puritans, who despised it. What the boycotters are doing is not defending America's Christmas traditions, but creating a new version of the holiday that fits a political agenda." (More)
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Regarding a move (by Fox news anchors and some conservative Christian groups) to boycott stores that don't advocate "Merry" Christamses, and other things:
"They claim that the 'traditional' American Christmas is under attack by what John Gibson, another Fox anchor, calls 'professional atheists' and 'Christian haters.' But America has a complicated history with Christmas, going back to the Puritans, who despised it. What the boycotters are doing is not defending America's Christmas traditions, but creating a new version of the holiday that fits a political agenda." (More)
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Posted 05 December 2005 at 00:43.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
Comments:
A good part of the "traditional" American Christmas is, of course, German. Probably more so than British. My understanding is that England and the United States adopted a lot of German Christmas customs in the mid to latter 19th century (like Christmas trees).
11:41 AM, December 05, 2005
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