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?
Replies
I also think that thanksgiving has kept is meaning because people respect the holiday as a whole because of the meaning it holds. I also love Halloween and paranormal stuff, but I'm a chicken and get scared too easily.
I think holidays are becoming commercialized because everyone tries to brand their stuff as great gifts and such. I like Halloween the most because of the horror movies and the temperature is nice and all the activities. I think holidays still have good meaning because just that people are advertising doesn't mean it should ruin the fun
I agree with you because the commercialization of holidays only happens when a company tries to sell things to the public related to the holiday or festivity.
Holidays, especially Christmas, are becoming commercialized for better or worse. Christmas has almost always included giving gifts, but nowadays it's way more expensive. I wouldn't say that it lost its meaning though. In order to give gifts, you still have to be around others.
I agree with the rocket-high prices for Christmas gifts because we could get a toy from Dollar Tree and we would be happy, but nowadays people feel the need to spend thousands of dollars on something simple like a toy.
I think holidays are becoming more commercialized becasue they are such a big profit for a company. During the holiday season many people spend thousands of dollars to have a good holiday. The holidays do hold an important meaning that people still believe but it's also a time for compannies to make hige sales.
I totally agree because holidays are the peak time for a company to make the sales that they didn't make in the year and they will do anything to get the most profit including commercializing holidays and persuading people to go to a certain place for the holiday.
I think that holidays have there own meanings, but there are some different perspectives about what it means to them. But I do think that people do use it for commercialized reasons.
I agree that holidays can have their own meanings and different ideas of how they are celebrated, I also agree because as a cause of the commercialized reasons, people might have different perspectives.
I think that holidays are becoming commercialized with all the different seasonal products being sold during their time. For example, there are lots of Christmas themed items that are sold during Christmas time so big companies can make more of a profit off their products. I think that holidays have lost part of their true meaning, and now they are more centered around the items and not the actual experience.
-
1
-
2
-
3
-
4
of 4 Next