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Dec. 8th, 2009 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyIt's the last panel that gets me laughing.
I honestly think the idea of the War On Christmas has a lot in common with the garbage about how gay marriage will destroy marriage--both reveal a very narrow, ethnocentric worldview. The Christmas kerfuffle especially shows no appreciation for the similarities between cultures. And, of course, the assumption that one's own culture is the default is always in the foreground.
Anthropology, folks--it's not just about Those People In Forn Parts. (And as long as we have winter and cabin fever, we're going to have winter holidays.)
I honestly think the idea of the War On Christmas has a lot in common with the garbage about how gay marriage will destroy marriage--both reveal a very narrow, ethnocentric worldview. The Christmas kerfuffle especially shows no appreciation for the similarities between cultures. And, of course, the assumption that one's own culture is the default is always in the foreground.
Anthropology, folks--it's not just about Those People In Forn Parts. (And as long as we have winter and cabin fever, we're going to have winter holidays.)
