[Augustine23615]

I have no problem with African Americans celebrating Kwanzaa as a way to recapture their ancestral culture and heritage. All holidays are ‘invented’ in a sense; people in a given time and place decide that something is worth celebrating (or see it as part of their religion), so they celebrate it. Likewise, I would not expect anyone to have a problem with European Americans rediscovering values they have in common (both secular and religious) and creating a race-based holiday around it. I have in mind a combination of the medieval European Christian virtues (though Christianity is a Near Eastern religion, not a European one) and closely related secular virtues – honor, duty, self-sacrifice, self-reliance, reverence for nature, and so on. These virtues are no more confined to the white race than the Kwanzaa virtues are confined to the black race. We can all learn from one another, if only we will.

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Name : Augustine23615, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,