Um... I know you said quite a bit about how you feel at christmas, but do you feel set apart in any way because you celebrate things like diwali&go to India&still have quite strong links with there?
It just intrigues me. When I was growing up we'd all celebrate diwali as well as christmas (the area I went to school in has a lot of differing religions all packed into a pretty small space) and I don't think I ever felt left out by it, because they read us stories about it and I thought it was a fantastic idea for a festival (And we always got to do fun things for diwali), but the rest of the small proportion of my class that was christian, I don't know how they felt about it.
I'm rambling. Did I actually ask a coherant question? Ah well, back to my cuppa *sips tea*
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