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| Dec 24, 2007 00:35 |   |
 | Yesterday, I read a piece of news. It is said that Chengdu education authorities made a notice that all schools should prohibit the students to attend Christmas celebrations on the streets from December 20 to 28. When the notice came out, it had aroused heated discussions. Some people applause for this move. In their opinions, Chinese people shouldn't celebrate western festivals and forget their own traditional festivals. This move marks the victory of the battle against western festivals. While other don't think so. They took this notice as freedom interference. Those students have their right to do whatever they want on condition that they do not break the laws. How do you view this issue? Is it necessary to prohibit students to attend Christmas celebrations? |
| Dec 24, 2007 00:43 | #1 |
| I believe it is sad to hear that Chinese people want to celebrate Christmas. Being a 'celebration' that is already a commercial sell-out in the west I can't understand it either. Though I don't believe it is up to government to decide if it should or shouldn't be celebrated. Here in Australia many schools no longer celebrate x-mas in the same manner as they used to in respect for the diverse cultures that are present in the schooling system here. I guess there is a growing percentage of Christians in China and this would, I hope, be the desire behind celebrating what was once a religious festival??? |
| Dec 24, 2007 01:51 | #2 |
| I think Nicholas is right, maybe China shouldn't celebrate Christmas, but he also say's that maybe there are more christians living in China these days. As a parent I used to enjoy seeing my daughter opening her presents and seeing the enjoyment on her face, but since my divorce I have missed out on sharing her joy, maybe I'm just a " sad old git " but I'm glad when it's over with, besides all the Christmas food consumed undoes all the hard work trying to lose weight throughout the year. Alan |
| Dec 24, 2007 08:32 | #3 |
| I must agree; Christmas is one of the biggest commercial knockouts for business in the west. A great pool of business reckon Christmas sales to make the biggest profit of the year, Christmas day was instituted to celebrate Jesus of Bethlehem birthday. Of course, that is a missing link, today days the most anti religion individual you can think of, have pleasure on the immeasurable expenditure of the masses on Christmas if he/she is in business. If the Chinese people want to teach a lesson to the western counterparts, they can celebrate the birth of Jesus of Bethlehem on Christmas day. On the other hand, as Nicholas and Alan said it, how sad. Because of the 1.3 billion Chinese citizens, the greater majority is of limited to very limited capital; so, many children will start to suffer the individual interests of Mr Santa on a time of joy. Remember; western society is structure on self-interest first, so, the only concern of the majority is him/her first. In the west we ask, what do I going to get for Christmas? Not, what are we going to do for Christmas. Chinese society is more family nucleus oriented, so the negative effect of the implementation of commercial Christmas is undeniably a painful experience to the many. |
| Dec 24, 2007 19:15 | #4 |
| People should be able to celebrate whatever it is that they want to celebrate. If not, we might as well outlaw birthdays, father’s day, mother’s day, anniversaries or any gift giving occasions since they encourage commercialism. Also, if they don’t want people to celebrate western festivals, then they might as well ban Valentine’s Day as well, which is celebrated with more passion in the East. These things have their own place. If there is no commercialism, then there won’t be businesses, if there are no businesses, there won’t be any jobs, if there are no jobs… well, you know what that means. It boils down to how much elaborate people would want to celebrate and know how much they could afford. If you think about it, all festivals have some commercial aspect on them but festivals give us a break from the usual routine so they have their use. |
| Dec 24, 2007 21:05 | #5 |
| Personally, I don't think it is necessary to prohibit students to celebrate Christmas Day. Christmas Day has lost its original meaning in China. Who celebrate Christmas Day? Young boys and girls. They just make use of Christmas Day to revel. To them, Christmas is like a carnival, not a religious festival. Some people take the prevalence of Christmas Day and other western festivals in China as culture invasion. To some extent, it is reasonable. I believe that many people have felt that Spring Festival is not as exciting as Christmas Day. But it does not mean that our traditional festivals will disappear. At least, its significance hasn't been changed. When it comes, people almost come back home and celebrate it with their parents. |
| Dec 25, 2007 14:29 | #6 |
| I think Christmas has been commercialized and that isn't right, but what in the world has not been commercialized? What has been kept completely pure? People try to make a profit out of everything these days, i.e. someone writing a detailed book about another person's horrible experiences, tv shows exploiting the fact that danger and excitement = more viewers, etc. I think Christmas should be celebrated for the reason it was created - Jesus' birth. As Christians, instead of giving each other things on Christmas day, we buy things to give to the homeless, needy, orphaned....bake cookies and brownies for our neighbors, etc. This is the way I think it should be. I think Christmas should be celebrated for the right reason. - moondollars http://community.faithvine.com/ |
| Dec 26, 2007 20:11 | #7 |
| If Christmas Day was celebrated for the right reason----Jesus's birth, it wouldn't be popular in China since China has small amount of Christians. Just kidding! Moondollars, I agree with you that festivals should be celebrated for the right reason. Sad to see that those festivals have gradually lost its orginal meanings. It is reported that some pupils in China evern don't know Middle Autumn Day. How ridiculous it is! |
| Dec 26, 2007 21:44 | #8 |
| (((How do you view this issue? Is it necessary to prohibit students to attend Christmas celebrations?))) Do not panic, there are over forty million overseas Chinese; they alone have introduced the Chinese culture around the globe. |
| Dec 27, 2007 07:47 | #9 |
| May be its a political issue, so better to leave this --- because we are talking from the light of democracy but our object is not ----? |
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