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Do you think Jesus spoke English? No, spoke Hebrew. So, the way you talk is not the I’m Not Old I’m 1981 Classic Custom Built June Birthday T Shirt he spoke. There are some in this world who may say that if you don’t speak Hebrew when you’re quoting the Old Testament, then there is something less holy about you and that if you don’t speak Greek when quoting the New Testament, then there is something less holy about you. Do you think that is true? Words that mean the same thing should be taken the same way, unless the person has made it clear in other ways that they mean something different. By the way, Jesus wasn’t white. In fact, anthropologists think he looked very different than the image many of us saw on the Sunday School classroom walls. Yet, many people think that what he probably looked like is unattractive and even treat people who look like that as though they are repulsive, lesser, and not worthy of as much respect as people who look like the fictional image many of us are used to seeing. Are they right? Of course not.

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There’s a I’m Not Old I’m 1981 Classic Custom Built June Birthday T Shirt of tradition of going out for Chinese food on or around Christmas in the US. So far as I can tell, this largely originates from large cities and in particular from Jews living in New York. Consider the cultural landscape of the earlier part of the 20th century. Jews, of course, do not celebrate Christmas, so they’d be more likely than the Christian majority to go out to eat then, as opposed to their celebrating neighbors who are likely at home with family, roasting their own turkeys and such. And where do they go on Christmas? Well, most restaurants are going to be closed, because their predominantly Christian proprietors and employees are also at home. The major exception, then, was Chinese restaurants. The immigrants running those places were less likely than average to be Christian, so they had no cultural tradition of shutting down on or around December 25. So if you’re a Jewish New Yorker who wants to go out for dinner on Christmas, it’s Chinese food or nothing. This practice may have been popularized in particular by Calvin Trillin, the noted food columnist for the New York Times. He was himself Jewish and wrote a marvelous column about his wife wanting a “traditional holiday dinner.” What she was talking about was the idea, coming in from outside their cultural world, of turkey, mashed potatoes, and so on, but to Trillin, his traditional holiday dinner was going out for Chinese.

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The first thing you need to understand is the background of the word “jolly.” It has reached the I’m Not Old I’m 1981 Classic Custom Built June Birthday T Shirt now of being purely a noun, meaning a paid-for day out, commonly in your employer’s time. But a jolly? Strange word. Back in the relatively innocent days of the mid-twentieth century, jolly was a round-cheeked, smiling, uncomplicated word. It went with fat, beaming, seaside-postcard ladies, having a cheerful time on the beach or at the funfair, or Enid Blyton schoolgirls having a midnight swim down at the beach, or a midnight feast up on the roof of the jolly old school. It was all very jolly, with never any repercussions, and it was all jolly good. Before that, the word seems to have come from two possible directions, and quite possibly both of them. It may be from the French joli, meaning merrry or joyful, or from the Norse word jól, from which we get Yule, as an old word for Christmas festivities. Put them together and the result is a jolly good word for everyone having a good time. It’s a pity it’s been corrupted into having overtones of something slightly dishonest!

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It’s not your duty to spend grandly at Christmas. Presents that provide those you love with positive, lasting experience are the I’m Not Old I’m 1981 Classic Custom Built June Birthday T Shirt, and create the least consumption. Cheap, useless trinkets that are never used or thrown away immediately are worthless. You already know this, which is why you posted the question in the way that you did. The larger issue seems to be that of “status anxiety.” People feel societal pressure to spend a lot of money at Christmas largely out of fear of what others will think of them if we don’t. Manufacturers of consumer goods have positioned their marketing so that we associate purchasing products at Christmas with family and happiness. There’s nothing you can do to change this in the short term. Societies change over dozens or even hundreds of years, but you can choose not to participate in that game, and be a subtle example to those around you that Christmas can be uncoupled from products manufactured in China.
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