Commercialization Christmas
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Christmas is the fun party par excellence. In the cold and dark winter months it is the ideal time when family and friends are together. Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus and a widely observed holiday, celebrated generally on December 25, by billions of people around the world. But it’s increasingly likely that it will become too commercialized. Or is it already commercialized?
Let’s start with the defenition of commercialization. Commercialised means the business is organised for financial gain. The company’s persues maximum profit like every company.
Whatever you believe , Christmas (religious, cultural, or none), it is a purely human invention. Even if it really is based on the actual birth of the actual son of god, the holiday itself is still a human invention. It's a holiday that people made, which means that people are free to do with it what they like. I do get annoyed at religious people who insist that the "true" meaning of Christmas involves a rather silly and implausible story, much of which was clearly "borrowed" from previous cultures and traditions. What's annoying to me is people telling other people what Christmas should be. I just think that's rude.
An aspect of this that I've never really noticed before, is the standard complaints about how Christmas is getting so commercial these days. I've been hearing this complaint for my entire life. I don't doubt that things have gotten worse in some ways over the last few decades, but the commercialization of Christmas is hardly a new phenomenon. But the important point is this: Christmas is only as commercial as you make it.
Here some facts and statistics:
I found that 61% of parents born in the 1930s typically spent less than £50 in total on Christmas presents for their families, compared to only 14% of parents born in the 1990s.
So people are spending more money on presents. And it’s hard to disagree
Christmas is the fun party par excellence. In the cold and dark winter months it is the ideal time when family and friends are together. Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus and a widely observed holiday, celebrated generally on December 25, by billions of people around the world. But it’s increasingly likely that it will become too commercialized. Or is it already commercialized?
Let’s start with the defenition of commercialization. Commercialised means the business is organised for financial gain. The company’s persues maximum profit like every company.
Whatever you believe , Christmas (religious, cultural, or none), it is a purely human invention. Even if it really is based on the actual birth of the actual son of god, the holiday itself is still a human invention. It's a holiday that people made, which means that people are free to do with it what they like. I do get annoyed at religious people who insist that the "true" meaning of Christmas involves a rather silly and implausible story, much of which was clearly "borrowed" from previous cultures and traditions. What's annoying to me is people telling other people what Christmas should be. I just think that's rude.
An aspect of this that I've never really noticed before, is the standard complaints about how Christmas is getting so commercial these days. I've been hearing this complaint for my entire life. I don't doubt that things have gotten worse in some ways over the last few decades, but the commercialization of Christmas is hardly a new phenomenon. But the important point is this: Christmas is only as commercial as you make it.
Here some facts and statistics:
I found that 61% of parents born in the 1930s typically spent less than £50 in total on Christmas presents for their families, compared to only 14% of parents born in the 1990s.
So people are spending more money on presents. And it’s hard to disagree