Why China’s war on Christmas is gathering pace

[Jlaw]

When I visit the Mainland, at times, I am surprised at the level of neoliberal indoctrination among certain Chinese (social science) academia. Hence, their students are (oftentimes) as lack of political consciousness.

When I give them class as a guest lecturer, they are surprised at hearing from me some new concepts. I find it surprising that in a country where Marxist -Leninist ideology is highly valued, education system (in some cases, I should not say all) fails to instill proper anti-neoliberal critical thinking.

This is one area I am highly critical of in Mainland.

That I blame the CPC for hiring white liberal minded professors and allowing non qualified English teachers to teach in schools.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Christmas can never match Spring festival in terms of importance whatsoever!
Just a nice gesture and chance to celibrate better and better living standard(Western companies are normally closed down so Chinese are bored ,so.....)!

 

[Pyr0test]

i dont think there's anything to worry about, Christmas has little religious connotations in China, just another excuse for us to buy stuff or get laid or both. if anything worrying about these sort of stuff reeks of insecurity

 

[Yingluck]

The country that is most anti-Christ and anti-Christmas today is USA, as a result of hosting parasitic Jews. The Jewish elites use pretext of racism, multi-culturism to assault Christmas as being sectarian.

Today wishing "Merry Christmas" is a dirty word, politically corrected to "Happy Holidays".

 

[Wolfwind]

It is not possible to turn Christmas into a secular holiday like the ones you brought on.

For starter, regardless of how you feel about Christianity, the birth of its greatest figure has a religious significance no other Christian based holidays can match.

Are you willing to ask the same for Islam, as in asking to remove the religious significance out of its holy days ? Of course not. You are not that brave.

Yes it's possible you religious nut.

Look at the Fir tree and mistletoe decorated with candy canes and snow. Look at rudolf the red nose reindeer, the grinch, North Pole and Fat Santa character and Christmas elves. Look at the gingerbread men, gingerbread house and eggnog and whatever other Christmas themes. Look at the motifs like snowflakes, red and green, sugar cookies or whatever. It is popular for people to go to Lapland for Christmas, not Bethlehem. So what have all these themes got to do with the Middle East or Christianity? Nothing. Most of those things don’t even exist in your ~sacred~ Jerusalem.

I live in U.K., I didn’t see any Christian crosses or pictures of Jesus or the Middle East. I just saw secular Christmas themes like Snowmen and Reindeers.