> > > M"Don't even get me started on being the only
> > > major Anglicized nation in the world to not
> > > celebrate Boxing Day"el
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> > Boxing Day? What is it? If it's some holiday that pertains to Britain as a country instead of just Western society in general, then that's probably it. Most of the other former British countries became independent in a way where they still remained friendly with the British, whereas we basically overthrew them in a big giant war. And then another one when they tried to take us back. We're on good terms with them now, but we generally don't go about picking up more holidays from England because we like them now.
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> Boxing Day: December 26; traditionally the day when the gentry would give presents (in boxes, I guess) to their servants, and sometimes other members of the lower class riff-raff. It's now a legal bank holiday, which I'll assume means no work and no school.

The term "Boxing Day" refers to the opening of church poor-boxes, I think. The money inside them would be distributed amongst the poor of the parish on the day after christmas. Or I might be thinking of Maundy Thursday, but I'm fairly certain that that the Maundy Money comes directly out of the Queen's pocket.

> It doesn't sound like a patriotically British holiday, so I'm not sure why we don't observe it. Pity that we don't though, it would be nice to get the day after Christmas off (not that it would make much difference for a student like me, but my parents would definitely appreciate it).

For the cost of about 4 days, you can quite easily get a fortnight off around Christmas and New Year's. I think that's great.

winter"Not really too sure without research"mute