Happy Holidays greetings history.

In the U.S., "Happy Holidays"  has become the holiday greeting for the general public in the last decade, such as social places , schools and greeting cards. It is used for Thanksgiving in the United States and in New Year.

In U.S , "Happy Holidays" use in place of "Merry Christmas" goes back to the 1950s and was a commonly used phrase at the Christmas season at least dating back to 1890. The words  "Happy Holidays"  become popular with the Irving Berlin song "Happy Holidays"  released in 1942.

  Happy Holidays  have several meanings and variations :

•  An English translation of the Hebrew Hag Sameach  greeting on Passover, Sukkot, and Shavuot is  "Happy Holiday",

• As "Happy Holiday", in place of  "Merry Christmas".

• As "Happy Holidays", in place of Thanksgiving.                              

Happy Holidays card

As "Happy Holidays", in place of "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year."

The increased  use of "Happy Holidays" has become controversy in the U.S . Supporters say "Happy Holidays" is a greeting and it is not designed to attack  Christianity or any religions, but rather a response because of a growing population the non-Christian. Critics of "Happy Holidays" say it is generally secular. The reception can be seen as materialistic, consumerist, indifferent or anti-Christian. Critics of the sentence that he associated with a greater culture shock called a "war of Christmas." However, some Christians fear that the confusion of the 20th century Saint-Nicolas (6 December), Christmas (December 25th) and Epiphany (January 6) to subsume the meaning of Christmas itself took the use of "Happy Holidays" and "Happy Holidays" all season, reserving "Merry Christmas" for December 25.
In an interesting accident, some critics see secular "Happy Holidays" as an attack on cultural diversity because of the nonspecific nature of the expression.

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