For a stretch of recent American history, there was really only one major cultural skirmish over Christmas. It began quietly in the 1990s, in both shopping malls and corporate boardrooms, when the push toward a more visibly multicultural public produced a paradoxical result.
In the attempt to welcome many traditions, American life became strangely monocultural, stripping explicit references to Christmas from December in favor of the softened, catch-all phrase “Happy Holidays.”
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