I found myself sitting here this morning at my computer with every intention of getting on and wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. What did I do instead. I looked at my email first and started looking though cat christmas ornaments. After doing this for about 10 minutes I realized that stores have really made it very easy to skip over the Thanksgiving holiday. They put all there ad’s out for Black Friday, and they advertise about there Christmas specials. Now I know why they do this, I worked in retail. It works and it sells items.
Retail of course is not the only reason thanksgiving is being pushed aside. The trend toward not celebrating holidays is part of the reason. I agree that religious holidays should either not be celebrated in schools, or we should celebrate all of the main religious holidays by learning about them. Now I don’t mean main religions, just pick a few holidays from as many religions as you can find and teach students why they are holidays to these people.
Anyway more on that in another post. What I hate right now is how national holidays are becoming less and less important, but most places are still closed on Christmas. Now I’m a Christan. I believe in god, but I just don’t get why with freedom of religion we celebrate our national holidays less then religious ones. I think much of it has to do with the fact that we as a collective American whole just don’t have the national pride that was once in our country. What do you think?
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Thursday, 22. November 2007
Nice blog. I am diabetic myself.
Sunday, 25. November 2007
maybe bcoz a lot of retailers started promoting christmas items on Black Friday since Christmas is a important holiday coming up, and Black Friday is a time when people have an eye for shopping