Where do British Christmas traditions really come from?

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• Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is why all performative shit right wing influences and reform politicians is doing is just utter nonsense.

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  • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We are essentially a mongrel nation that’s been built with waves of migration to our shores. Our language is a testament to our diversity with it’s many loan words and other idiosyncratic traits.

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• MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What an awfully written and excessively reductionist article.

  Arguing against Christmas as a Christian or Consumerist occasion would have been a better use of their time.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Christmas is a Christian holiday, though. The whole “it was pagan” myth has been largely debunked

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    • piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Debunked? Sure… it was just a coincidence the Romans held were doing christmas-like activities on dec 25th. and it wasnt limited to just one. But there were others.

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    • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A lot of peoples have had some sort of festival in the depths of winter around the time of the solstice.

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    • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thats what I said. I said it is either a Christian or Consumerist occasion.

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