Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
I'm not Jewish. We just don't have a Christmas dinner is all. I guess once or twice we have, when I was a child, but with Thanksgiving just over, we rarely do a big Christmas dinner.

The bagels and lox are just a special treat for breakfast, while opening presents.
My family is not religious at all.
But parents jumped on the bandwagon when they came to Canada ..you know anything involving home-cooked nice meal, decorations, songs and presents sounded like a good thing to my parents. You have to see the parallels of just the celebratory stuff to Chinese New Years' except the foods traditionally eaten then have different meaning, but the bright colours found for Chistmas and Chinese New Year's, ie. red for berries, Santa Claus suit, etc. parallels with red in Chinese New Year.

It's not tough to "sell" Christmas to certain non-Christian based cultures.

My family views Christmas a great reason for yet another mega-family get together with multi-course, special foods, etc. and celebrate family bonding.

I must sound awfully simplistic. But as the years march along, memories of this become more precious and I confess, nostalgia grows especially when people are still healthy and alive.