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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I was in the B&M store in Preston recently and there were as many Asian families in there buying Christmas paraphernalia as other folk.......they put decorations up, and although they do not celebrate Christmas the way we do they buy presents for their children.

Many of the Christmas traditions are known to have their roots in pagan festivals, they were adopted by the church so that the pagans could be encompassed in the church and still follow some of the rituals.....making them feel 'at home' so to speak.

I do not mind when other cultures celebrate their religious festivals....Eid Diwali, just to mention two........these people do not mind us celebrating our religious festival....it is the meddling PC brigade who do my box in, by being offended for the other cultures, when the other cultures clearly are not offended at all.
I wish they would all go and boil their heads...and this is from someone who doesn't really like Christmas very much.
We should not steal the magic of Christmas from the children....it will disappear for them soon enough, and become just another commercial event.

Agreed Margaret - we have a Sikh and a Hindi family living on our farm and they decorate for Xmas and send each other presents, as it's what is done here...doesn't seem to bother them at all. In fact the kids are glad as they get presents.