The A to Z English Podcast | Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?

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 englishpodcast@gmail.com. 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. Podcast Website: https://atozenglishpodcast.com/the-a-to-z-english-podcast-merry-christmas-or-happy-holidays/ Social Media: Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/671098974684413/ Tik Tok: @atozenglish1 Instagram: @atozenglish22 Twitter