Happy Non-Denominational Holidays, Charlie Brown!

I was watching Blues Clues this morning and Joe was watching home movies about how Blue came to live with him. It was a cute little story about Steve and Joe as children, played by cute kids. All around, it was a cute show. Then came the letter from the "friends," which comes every day. This time, the friends were sending a video Happy Holidays card.

There were four friends, a white girl, a jewish boy, a black girl, and a middle eastern boy. Each of the children explained how special their holiday was. They talked about the nice presents they get, the great food they eat, and the special times they share with their families. Then when it was the middle eastern boy's turn, he was like "we celebrate Ramadaan and we don't eat or drink food." I have to give it up to Nickelodeon for attempting to celebrate all cultures. They strategically called the episode "The Happy Holidays" episode.

I guess things have become more politically correct since I was a kid. I remember everything being about Christmas. Christmas carols, a Christmas pagent where I always got stuck being a shepherd (while the white kids were wisemen and kings), and Secret Santa were common traditions in my school. Now that I think about it, we had a lot of Jewish kids in our classes. There was James Goldstein and his brother Joseph. I wonder what was going through their heads while they were forced to be in the pagent. They were probably freaked out by the baby Jesus. Poor kids.