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Originally Posted by Pierre
Only going off what was posted.
Shame for our American cousins that Disney doesn’t like Christmas.
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Disney likes Christmas just fine. People consume a lot of Disney product at this time of year. It makes them much moolah.
As with many things, the phrase ‘happy holidays’ is just a consequence of a language naturally developing and diverging from its roots. They say sidewalk, we say pavement. We say Christmas, they say holidays, which is derived from the Old English for holy days and has been in the language since the 16th century.
In American usage it tends to include advent (itself a thing in the Christian religious calendar) and has come to include non Christian religious festivals that also occur in November-December, principally Hanukkah which is Jewish.