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x-mas
Submitted by Leesoid on 24 November 2006 - 5:52pm.
Right before I sat down to write this I watched an episode of sex and the city. I just found myself wanted to start writing Carrie style. Something like beginning my bolg with some kind of cliché metaphor, oh Carrie you have taught me so much.
So, I have been thinking that this year Christmas came even earlier than usual in terms of store displays and commercials ect. I think Starbucks busted out the x-mas stuff right around the end of Halloween. This leaves me feeling sorry for thanksgiving. It is being super out shadowed, the poor less consumer driven holiday. I went to the village a few days before thanksgiving because I went to a friends house for the Thanks and wanted to get a gift. Christmas Christmas everywhere. No turkey gifts at all! Even at the candy store there was x-mas candies everywhere and only a small shelf for the thanks. And this is only in the village, anti-cooperate central. I am sure at target it is a Christian winter wonderland.
I am sure it has to be so hard for children who don’t celebrate Christmas to feel like they fit in during this season without the stores prolonging that misery into the very begging of Nov. I do love Christmas. I am not the scrooge, I just don’t want to suffer form x-mas burn-out.
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Yeah, it does seem like they
Yeah, it does seem like they pulled the Christmas stuff out even earlier this year. Usually I don't expect to hear x-mas music until after Thanksgiving, but that was not the case this year. I think that there is starting to be a bit more awareness of other winter holidays though, but barely. For example, I intern at a graphic design company that was working on a holiday card for the employees of a hospital, and they were trying to make sure that the card wasn't Christma-centric (ooh, I made up a word). But I think that in general the Christma-centricism is widespread, and capitalist consumer culture seems to be a major player in its proliferation.
happy non-denominational winter holiday!
that's at least what we called it at my high school. in fact, pomona was the first time in a long time that i heard people refer to winter break as christmas break, or saying merry christmas without including happy chanukah and kwanzaa. that was a bit of a culture shock.