What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"? (long)

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> Susan> 
> > No one is asking you to lose your culture.
> > 
> > You are entitled to it.
> > 
> > But it is NOT the NORM, and really has never been the NORM for 
> > everyone.....
> > 
> > Please understand that it's your culture, but it does not have to 
> be 
> > accepted by EVERYONE.....that's imposing YOUR culture on everyone 
> > else...
> 
> Tonks:
> 'Norm' means what is commonly accepted as what the average person 
> does, or what the majority of people do. And the culture that I 
love 
> at Christmas use to be the norm almost everywhere in the U.S. If 
you 
> are 56, you remember that. Unless you have always lived in 
> California. The culture that I knew in my youth is gone, and I 
can't 
> say that it is being replaced with something better. ;-(
>
 Tonks, I grew up in West Hempstead, Long Island, New York which was 
a bastion of Ozzie and Harriet type values.

Perhaps the NORM was the wrong way to put it.

But in the midst of all the mannikins being white and all the police 
officers and mail carriers being male and all the holiday songs being 
religious ones about Christmas, there was a population of Jewish 
people, a bunch of African American people living in the same town, 
and lots of women.

That's what I mean. Not EVERYone was celebrating Christmas even in 
1956.

Susan