the top religions in china are traditional religions, buddhism, or not religious. so yeah christianity isn’t that common
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somewhere in the us
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I know that a lot of people who aren’t even religious celebrate Christmas anyway, but it is a Christian holiday in its origin.
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At a lot of schools, too!
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im not religious but we sort of celebrate christmas. i don’t actually know how it is in china tho cuz ig im pretty american
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Oh, so you’re an American too, I, see?
You are right about the languages though. I like to call them “starter languages” since those are the first languages you start with early on.
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the problem is it’s harder to learn later on and most of those are relatively easy for english speakers to learn and according to the fsi the hardest languages for english speakers to learn are arabic, mandarin, cantonese, korean, and japanese so i feel if you get the opportunity to learn them earlier it would be easier
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Aww, man! That’s a bummer!
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and honestly despite how difficult learning languages, knowing multiple languages is very useful
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As an English speaker who was forced to learn Mandarin at some point, I concur.
My mom also says that Arabic is really hard. My grandma was apparently really good at it though
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Yes, yes, it is.
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i think it’s a lot to do with structure. the sentence structure in english, mandarin, and arabic are all different and they use three different writing systems. the fact that you write right to left in arabic may also be confusing
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I asked, not only do the Chinese celebrate Christmas, they exchange apples to their crushes.
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O Holy Night is a religious Christmas carol, but isn’t the Mariah Carey rendition quite popular?
Sort of related to this: where I’m from, Christians make up the minority (less than 10%) yet when Christmas rolls around, they play religious Christmas songs in public and people don’t have a problem. I don’t see why they can’t get big, except for the language barrier probably.
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Where I live, there’s a massive Orthodox Jewish population, so not a lot of radio stations play the Christian ones.
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Oh I see. You live in the US, right? I did hear that there was an issue with Starbucks’ Christmas cup because the symbols were “offensive” to non-Christians, even though the symbols were related to winter and not Christianity. I’ve also heard that it might be considered offensive if you say “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays.”
Well when I was there I didn’t experience those things. Then again, the US is huge. Is it like that where you live?
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Very huge. Lots of people, especially where I live.
Some people get upset about everything, but there are lots of people of lots of different religions here. I think the two biggest ones are the Orthodox Jews and the Coptic Christians, but that’s only two.
That’s why there has to be secular Christmas music because not everyone cares about Jesus and his Mom.
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I remember this. I remember it well.
It is sad how easily offended some people get.
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oh wow. at this point christmas isn’t a so much of a religious thing for a lot of people
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Ah, I get that. We also have a lot of religions here, and even though we’re “secular” it still plays a big part in society. For example, each of the major religions (Islam, Christianity, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism) is given public holidays. The radical Muslims may have an issue, but they’re the minority. People here just don’t care.
Here, the Muslims greet the Christians Merry Christmas, and the Christians greet the Muslims Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri (Have a good Eid-l Fitr). That’s why we find America weird in that respect, because we’re also diverse, but instead of hiding religion we sort of embrace it.
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