Except that observing Christmas is, in fact, something that is very strong in our culture, including secular culture, and I don't think that it would be even vaguely approaching fair to make that into a Bad Thing.
It's one of those areas where I recognise that it is privilege, of a sort, for something that is a part of my personal cultural background to be part of mainstream culture* but the way that privilege needs to be dismantled is to extend it to everyone, not remove it from some.
And I tend to think that anyone who thinks that widespread celebrations of Eid and Diwali would somehow be a negative thing can suck it up. These are joyful and wonderful things, and wanting to limit the amount of joy and wonderment in the world MAKES YOU A BAD PERSON.
* I say "of a sort" because all of the ways in which Christmas is embedded in our culture tend to lead directly to Christmas being one of the most miserable times of the year for me, despite it being a joyful point in the religious calendar of my own faith; I find myself wishing that Christmas existed culturally on a level equivalent to Michaelmas, because then I would not, in fact, spend so much time every Christmas persuading myself not to commit suicide.
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It's one of those areas where I recognise that it is privilege, of a sort, for something that is a part of my personal cultural background to be part of mainstream culture* but the way that privilege needs to be dismantled is to extend it to everyone, not remove it from some.
And I tend to think that anyone who thinks that widespread celebrations of Eid and Diwali would somehow be a negative thing can suck it up. These are joyful and wonderful things, and wanting to limit the amount of joy and wonderment in the world MAKES YOU A BAD PERSON.
* I say "of a sort" because all of the ways in which Christmas is embedded in our culture tend to lead directly to Christmas being one of the most miserable times of the year for me, despite it being a joyful point in the religious calendar of my own faith; I find myself wishing that Christmas existed culturally on a level equivalent to Michaelmas, because then I would not, in fact, spend so much time every Christmas persuading myself not to commit suicide.