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6301120 No.6301120 [Reply] [Original]

...Can you tell me why the Japanese celebrate Christmas?

>> No.6301123

GIFTS FOR EVERYONE

>> No.6301128

Because it's a secular holiday, and everyone celebrates it.

>> No.6301129

Not /jp/ related, boo fucking hoo. Gonna imitate those reporting shitposters.

PS: Because xmas is fun and no one wants to feel left out. Everyone needs something like xmas in their lives. It is celebrated around the world.
I didn't really report you.

>> No.6301136

Gifts, the nice feeling, the romantic feel everywhere. And all the other reasons why WE celebrate it. It's just nice to put some candles, warm up the apt, drink tea and eat cake while watching mai waifu. Then maybe drinking a bit of something expensive. I think the Japanese think the same way.

>> No.6301139

Reported for dumb question.

>> No.6301140

Globalization.

>> No.6301156

I live in a country that doesn't celebrate halloween, thanksgiving or xmas, my birthday is a national holiday where everyone goes to sweep graves.

FUCK THIS SHITTY WORLD.

>> No.6301172

>>6301136
>>6301129
>>6301128
Most of them aren't christians, and it'll be odd to celebrate the birthday of a savior that is not interested in giving salvation to those that do not believe in Him (e.g. a large portion of the Japanese populace)

Might as well celebrate Ramadan while you're at it.

>> No.6301201

>>6301172
You seem to have misspelled "pagans". What an embarrassing mistake.

>> No.6301207

Because capitalism. Japanese love their capitalism.

>> No.6301217

because they want an excuse to eat KFC

>> No.6301218

>>>/trv/
Anyway, they celebrate it because it's fun, sponsors consumption, and also as the Japanese actually do have a suprisingly long history with christians.

>> No.6301225

>>6301218
>sponsors consumption
This is the correct answer. Same reason we have Mother's Day and Valentine's Day.

>> No.6301229

Christmas has only slightly more to do with Christianity than Halloween.

>> No.6301242
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6301242

They aren't celebrating it as a religious holiday, they are celebrating the secular half of it, with gift-giving/buying, holiday cheer, and Santa Claus - not as a saint of the Christian God, but as a saint of Capitalism, the god that governs most aspects of human behavior.

>> No.6301266

You are now realizing how brainwashed Americans are into believing Xmas is purely Christian. Go read about Sol Invictus on Wikipedia.

>> No.6301274

>>6301229
Speaking of Halloween, there was quite a bit of talk of it here on /jp/ last year, wasn't there? Or atleast the year before. I believe we talked about the cute costumed lolis coming to our doors and our inabilities to seem natural while giving out candy.

>> No.6301294

>>6301266
There isn't a single American who calls himself even remotely educated that doesn't know Christmas was originally a pagan holiday. I'm no Christian, but I don't see how that fact lessens the significance of the day to them. Would you stop celebrating Independence day if I told you that the famous painting of George Washington heroically crossing the Delaware was actually a propagandized painting of him and a band of cutthroats sneaking into a city in the dead of night on Christmas eve to cut the throats of sleeping and drunk soldiers who weren't even British? They were Hessian Mercenaries. I should hope not. It doesn't matter what actually happened, or where the holiday comes from. To the people who celebrate it (Christians in the first case, Americans in the case of 4th of July) the symbolic meaning of the holiday is more important. Basically, no matter what the truth is, if something means something to you, and causes you to celebrate that day... isn't that enough?

Stop being so prejudiced against people who don't share your opinion. No matter how stupid I think Christians are, and boy are they silly, just as silly as Muslims and Jews, they have every right to believe whatever they want to. Who cares if they are right or wrong? As long as they don't hurt somebody because of it, everything is fine. Let them have their days of celebration. I'll just keep celebrating Christmas as a secular holiday where I put presents under a tree and sing songs, drink alcohol, and be happy with family and friends.

>> No.6301318

>>6301172
Ramadan is not a celebration, it's more like a penance. It's fasting. It's not meant to be fun, Muslims do it out of obligation.

Eid is more analogous celebration, but Islam doesn't have same secular cultural superpower status as Christianity.

>> No.6301341

>>6301294
Could you possibly be... frustrated?

You should take things less personally even when the other side is right.

>> No.6301350

>>6301294
I think he was referring to the people who think you have to be Christian to celebrate Christmas. Though that's probably just a troll most of the time.

>> No.6301359

How vexing...

>> No.6301368

>>6301294
Also, you sound like some butthurt normalfag, so you should get out of /jp/.

>>I'll just keep celebrating Christmas as a secular holiday where I put presents under a tree and sing songs, drink alcohol, and be happy with family and friends.

>> No.6301383

do the japs really go on dates and eat kfc on christmas?

>> No.6301419

>>6301383
Yeah, apparently they all turn black for a few minutes during christmas eve.

>> No.6301420

>>6301383
Yes, they do.

>> No.6301448

>>6301156
I wish my country didn't celebrate Halloween. I am a student living in a university town, and in recent years nightclub and alcohol related businesses have made a big push to make Halloween synonymous with drinking stupid amounts of alcohol and causing a general nuisance everywhere (so pretty much standard student behaviour, except on an order of magnitude larger). Made even worse by our last governments idiotic decision to allow 24 hour alcohol licensing for bars and clubs and the like.
There's no way I'm going outside this Halloween.

>> No.6301456

>>6301341
>>6301368
Did you even read what he wrote?

>> No.6302359

>>6301456
Yes.

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