Around the world there are many holidays, but do you think some of these are becoming more commercialized, and are losing their true meaning? Across the world, there are about 122 diverse holidays, from celebrating our ancestors and people who have made discoveries to changing the world, religion, and days to be with the ones you love.
To begin with, a holiday is a national day to celebrate, where people are allowed to stay away from work or school. The US has 12 federal holidays from New Year's Eve to Christmas. For other ethnicities, there is Easter for Christians, the High Holy Days for Jews, Ramadan for Muslims, the Day of Vesak for Buddhists, and Diwali for Hindus. People don't like holidays because they don't like giving to big companies.
People think that holidays are becoming more commercialized because of the big companies. Companies have brought up many faces for these holidays instead of the people or what the holiday is actually about, such as the Santa Clause whose story comes from St. Nicholas of Bari a bishop who was very generous and gave gifts to the kids, the Easter Bunny who German immigrants introduced, cupid who comes from ancient Roman and the jack-o lantern comes from an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack. The true meaning of Christmas is Celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ and It's an opportunity to pause and give thanks for the love, hope, and joy found in Jesus, but companies see it as an opportunity to get the most possible money, big companies can make up more than a billion dollars in the Christmas/thanksgiving dates. Companies use these mascots to sell more things. People around the world sometimes don't even care about the true meaning of the holiday since they've been more commercialized and only care about the things it gives you.On christmas you get gifs and you gift stuff to people, some kids just wait until it Christmas to get gifts instead of being in there because of the true meaning. Halloween is all about candy and giving money to big candy and costume factories, but the true meaning is a religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer which makes Halloween commercialized because it's being sold by the big companies as dress-up and get-candy day.
I think that some holidays are very commercialized like Christmas when they always persuade you to not be a Scrooge and get a certain product and it kinda of pushes you to buy your mom something because she needs it, to continue I also think that some holidays have lost their true meaning because people don't even reunite for what it is about, I will get it if you are other religion but Christmas is also about being reunited with the ones you love, not pushing yourself to buy super expensive things.
Do you think holidays are becoming commercialized?
Which holiday do you like the most?
Do you think that some holidays have lost their true meaning because of the influence of big companies?
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Great topic choice and well done Mariajose! Be sure to comment on three different days. This was also postee a bit late.
Yes, in my opnion I think that holidays are becoming more commercialized now than they were in the past. Christmas is the most commercialized holiday out of all of them I think. I don't think they have lost their complete meaning, but they have lost a lot more than they used to have.
I agree with you because Christmas is the most commercialized holiday currently because of all of the influences of the big companies.
I think all holidays are becoming commercialized alot, especially Christmas. I don't really think that any holidays have lost their true meaning, but I do think that a lot of people have just been inflenced from commercials making them buy expensive items. My favorite holiday would personally be Christmas.
I agree because people have been very influenced by commercials thinking that they should buy the most impressive gift on Christmas to impress or make the person happy, but some people are happy with getting something meaningful and cheap rather than expensive and probablyuseless.
Yes, I do think holidays are being more commercialized because, whenever I go to stores or even on apps I always get a ad or see an ad but new holiday stuff. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving or Christmas because I get to spend time with family.
Yes, I agree with you because as soon as Halloween ends companies start selling and promoting their products that are Christmas-related, and those ads can even be annoying because of how frequently you encounter them.
I believe that it is obvious that holidays are becoming comercialized. The best example of this seems to be Christmas. I think that when it comes to Christmas, many people associate it with gifts and other unimportant things, especially when compared to its true meaning.
I agree because the holiday that is the most commercialized of all is definitely Christmas and it will probably still be for a long, long time because of the fact of the gifts and the major influences of companies, and I think that newer generations will forget or not care about its true meaning.
I think that it's true, I feel like the only holiday that has kept its true meaning for the most part is Thanksgiving, since they pushed it really hard in school as kids, at least for me. If I had to pick a holiday it'd be Halloween, I love anything spooky and paranormal.
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