In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss whether it's better to say "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas."

Transcript:

00:00:00

Jack

You're listening to the A-Z English podcast.

00:00:13

Jack

Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we're going to have a conversation or a debate social. Happy holidays or Merry Christmas.

00:00:28

Jack

What do you say? What do you?

00:00:30

Jack

Say to people.

00:00:33

Xochitl

I think you can say whatever you want, but I like to say happy holidays because not everyone celebrates Christmas and I don't think it's taking anything away. A lot of people who say Merry Christmas are like, oh, they're they're taking Christmas away from us and it's like they're not. We're just adding to the holidays that everyone's celebrating and taking them into account because not everyone's a Christian.

00:00:53

Xochitl

And not everyone's an American like.

00:00:56

Xochitl

US born Christian whatever, which follows the same religion, does the same holidays. There's a lot of diversity in this country and all over the world, so I prefer happy holidays, even myself. I don't only celebrate Christmas, we have very snuggles too, and a bunch of other holidays in between so.

00:01:16

Jack

Right.

00:01:18

Jack

I'm I'm I'm in total agreement with you. I think I'm. I'm older, so my habit is just to say Merry Christmas to people. I'll say it to anyone you know mistake. Just without thinking. Kind of. You know whether they're Muslim, Jewish.

00:01:38

Jack

Atheist. Whatever. I'll my my kind of default is to just say ohh Merry Christmas, you know and.

00:01:44

Jack

I I'm trying.

00:01:45

Jack

To catch myself this holiday season because, like you said, happy Holidays is just adding on. It's more inclusive, right, so it's like.

00:01:55

발표자

And I don't understand.

00:01:56

Jack

People that feel like, oh, that's the war. There's, like, a expression in America, the war on Christmas. Like, there's like, they're trying to kill Christmas.

00:02:06

Jack

And I'm like.

00:02:08

Jack

If secularizing like sorry, I'm using big words here for our listeners, secular means non religious and Christmas is already pretty secular because we.

00:02:21

Jack

You know when.

00:02:21

Jack

We think of Christmas we think of.

00:02:23

Jack

Santa Claus and.

00:02:25

Jack

Rudolph the Red Nosed reindeer and frosty the snowman.

00:02:28

Jack

And you know all these, these things that have.

00:02:30

Jack

Nothing to do with religion.

00:02:34

Jack

But they're not work. They don't care about that stuff. They're only they only get angry when you say happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas. And I don't know why they're so upset or triggered by the expression. Happy holidays because you know, like Jewish people celebrate the Hanukkah.

00:02:54

Jack

Around the same time of year that we celebrate Christmas so.

00:03:00

Jack

If I say Merry Christmas, it might be offensive to, you know, a a Jewish person. So in that case I might want to say happy holidays and make them feel more a.

00:03:11

Jack

Part of the.

00:03:11

Jack

Community. So I that's is that was what you were.

00:03:14

Jack

Saying and I I think.

00:03:15

Jack

I agree with you 100%.

00:03:18

Xochitl

Yeah. And let us know what holidays you celebrate in your home country and whether we should say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. Which one do you think leave a comment down below on our website at AZ englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ [email protected].

00:03:36

Xochitl

And join our WhatsApp group to join the conversation and we will see you next time.

00:03:39

Xochitl

Bye bye and holidays.

00:03:40

발표자

Alright, bye bye.

00:03:43

Jack

Happy holidays.

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