Happy Holidays Or Merry Christmas?
Topics: General Business
Its that time of the year when you should be sending Christmas cards or emails to people or organizations that are associated with your business. This includies your vendors, suppliers, partners, employees, and customers. So this brings us to one question - should we say “Happy Holidays” or “Merry Christmas”?
For those of you reading who’re not from the US, you’d probably ask, “Why would anyone say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas?” Well, in the US, there’s something called “Political Correctness”, so apparently if you say Merry Christmas, it implies something about Christ and Christianity so people from other religion may be offended…
So in business settings, especially if you do business in the US, what should you say?
Well, I personally use “Happy Holidays” just in case, but really I dont think it matter that much… do people really get offended so easily? Do you really want to do business with people who are SO particular about irrelevant things?
Tell me what you think!
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Anwar
December 19th, 2007
4:02 pm
I share the same POV with you Dominic, you wish something good to someone so it shouldn’t be offended after all, even if he has another religion, but the world is a melting pot, and doing business in absolute don’t care about theses insignificant things, but sometimes we have to take some precautions or use an universal formula like “Happy Holidays!” when possible and that’s it.