@Silly Bubbles : I'm not going to bite this time... although I'm currently busying myself, on and off, with doing so in another thread... maybe?
People who don't 'celebrate' the particular holidays are probably effected by the generic aspects - time off from work, travel and gathering with friends and family, etc.
Could be! Still, I was - as I often do - musing primarily upon etymology, and the universality of comprehension of any given term by an international audience... and on a related note, I have long thought that designating this Forum and the Game Servers/Worlds which it represents as 'EN' implies - incorrectly - that it relates specifically to the Anglophone Sphere - and wondering why this designation was chosen in the first place!
BTW - Hannukah Dec 18-26 and Kwanzaa Dec 26-Jan 1.
... is that so? Thanks - I had no idea, especially about Kwanzaa (created in 1966 in the USA, Mr Google tells me?) and knowledge is power, as they say!
As a matter of interest, and because I do love to know the history of tradition (knowing WHY people celebrate - not only THAT they do [that much is rather obvious, really!] always matters in any multi-cultural context, I believe, if we are to try to understand our fellow-Humans at all...?
In fact, and in pursuit of the above viewpoint of mine, I was going to post a couple of very interesting URLs from Wikipedia (which most people see as being non-controversial) about the historical origins of the forthcoming Festive Season across the world - since those origins clearly explain (at least in any nation which uses the Gregorian Calendar, as I believe is typically the commonest choice?) - why the date and/or day of the week of Christmas Day and New Year's Day [both thus-named] can vary, year on year (they're from two originally unrelated traditions)... but then I thought better of it.
I feel like a traitor to my own Forum Signature, but I'm still some way from attaining the alternative, which would be simply to disappear (er, from here)!
Oh well. I suppose you'll have to resort to the good offices of Our Best Friend Google of your own accord, if you're even interested...
In any case... Happy - hmm, Holidays? Winter? Summer? Internationally Analogous Period Of Celebration...? I'm trying my best, succeed or fail!