why most of people in middle east dont celebrate the new year holiday?
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Which New Year do you mean? Different cultures and countries have different New Years'. Yup, surprise surprise! In Sri Lanka the Sinhalese and Tamil population celebrate their New Year in the middle of April. Here the New Year dawns when the sun moves from the period of Pisces to the period of Aries in our horoscope and constellation signs. There's more to it actually, but I'm not familiar with the intricacies. In the Middle East most of the population is Muslim. Muslims all over the World celebrate their New Year in November after a period of fasting. It indicates the period of the beginning of the Winter Solstice and also the New Moon. This could be one of the reasons why the Middle East doesn't celebrate the New Year in it traditional sense, i.e. when the clock strikes twelve midnight on the 31st of December. \nAs said before all cultures and countries have different times and reasons to celebrate the coming of a New Year. But as humans, we're always ready for a party, so most of those countries celebrate the traditional New Year as well :)
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On New Year's, people look forward and back, as did the two-headed Roman god Janus who lent his name to the first month of the year. It's a time for resolutions, a custom that goes back several millennia to the Babylonians, whose most popular one reportedly was to return borrowed farm implements. Nowadays, we're more likely to resolve to become better, skinnier, more fit, more patient, and smoke-free.\n\nParties, champagne and fireworks are common around the globe, but there are some more idiosyncratic customs as well. In Spain, 12 grapes are eaten during the last 12 seconds of the outgoing year (Peruvians eat 13). People who belong to polar bear clubs may indulge in a refreshing icy dip; the Coney Island Polar Bear Club of NYC has been doing this on New Year's Day since 1904. One Hogmanay custom popular in northeast Scotland is fireball swinging, which involves marching through the streets while twirling three-foot flaming balls on six-foot chains.\n\nOther places tend to drop things during the final countdown to midnight. The most famous, in Times Square, is a 1,070-pound, 6-foot Waterford crystal ball, but other choices in various US cities include a pine cone, a pickle, a pretzel, and a live opossum in a cage.
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No we dont. Infact we dont have a public holiday to celebrate the 'UK'....eg a national celebration day. There was recent discussion in paliment about this, but I have not heard anything more about it.\n Not like some sort of 'independence day' like the states have .
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The vast majority of Americans want it recognized as a federal holiday, so ... that's the way of it.\n\n.
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What country? What state, if US. What kind of employer?\n\nI certainly don't think Yom Kippur is a legal holiday in China, or Easter in Israel, for example. I know we don't celebrate Boxing Day in the US, and I've never even heard of Remembrance Day.\n\nAt my company, the answer is none.
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yes , Lebanon is a small country in the middle east. don't you watch the news??!!! it was the main subject of the media a year ago and there are a lot of lebanese living outside
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People in the middle east are loving to all nations and love all human kinds. The only problem they have is the governments, people hate governments not the people. And the hate of government is because of bad policies western governments have had towards the mid east
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When you say most religious holidays, what religion do you mean?  *No* Moslem  holiday falls during the winter.  In fact, no Moslem *date* falls during the winter!\n\nJewish holidays fall during the growing season--at the beginning, middle, or end of the summer.\n\nOf the major Christian holidays, one is a winter holiday, and one is a spring holiday.\n\nSo I have no idea what religion you're referring to!  (I know less about other religions, so I can't comment...)\n\nP.S. to gollum--of the three religions you mention, only *one* was born in Arabia--Islam.  Judaism and Christianity both have their roots in the Land of Israel.  It is to the north-west of Arabia, and with a much less desert climate.
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Because sometimes there is work to be done on the holidays and someone has to do it.\n\nSome services do not close - eg. fire fighters, ambulance service, hospitals, police, phone companies...etc.\n\nAnd if the services don't stop, someone has to do the work.
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Thanksgiving is not supposed to be about our individual religions or cultural backgrounds.  Christians, Jews and Muslims can and do observe the holiday.\n\nOutside of the US and Canada, however, there isn't a Thanksgiving day (maybe England has one, I don't know...) \n\nIndia, Africa, Asia, and pretty much the rest of the world doesn't observe our Thanksgiving any more than they observe our Independence day or Cinco de Mayo...
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Some people in the middle east will party I'm sure!
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one of the biggest might be the worlds youth day, or women's day. But nothing beats new year. Also chinese new year.
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There are a lot of middle eastern folks in business, but I don't find them all mean.  Go to a different store..
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there are alot of countries responsible for what has happened in the middle east. Every western nation has had a hand in dividing up the middle east for either religion or oil. Isreal is only the most recent example. If we gave every country in the middle east the support we give Isreal, that would be a very different region today. \n\nThe cultural divide is the only thing I see that has stopped us. For instance, after 9/11 many groups were advocating that we lock up all muslims in the US in concentration camps because they are muslim. The people of the middle east's reaction to this attitude is what is causing the problems. They hate the way we think of them. \n\nWill there be another attack? probably. Will we hear about it? I hope not, but some politician will probably want to reap the political rewards of making us afraid despite what it would do to this country. Thousands of people die in the US every day. Terrorism is the least likely cause, and our government should recognize that.
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Excellent question!  Especially since my father is a used car salesman.  haha.\n\nAnyways, I know that certain people will not celebrate things like Christmas and Easter because they are not in the Bible, and the reason for this I believe is two-fold.  First of all, the Bible actually prescribes a very specific list of holidays that it requires.  These are the Jewish holidays, such as Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Shavuot, among some others.  Within this law it is stated that no one may add nor take away from the Law.\n\nTherefore, a strict interpretation might seem to indicate that these holidays, AND ONLY THESE HOLIDAYS should be celebrated, at least as RELIGIOUS holidays.\n\nHowever, Jews do celebrate some other holidays besides these because they are believed to be "within the spirit" of the Law.  For example, the Bible teaches that one should rejoice in the great things that God does in history.  So, Hanukkah celebrates a miracle that God performed for the Jewish people, and is considered to be acceptable to celebrate.  But it never is given the high status of the holidays which the Bible specifically describes.\n\nOn the part of Christians, I think it is noteworthy that Jesus seemed to accept the holiday of Hanukkah, even though it was post-Old Testament.  His disciples celebrated it, and Jesus told them to do so.  \n\nMost Christians however do not make this connection though I think, because they are not familiar with Jewish custom, and do not realize that Jesus was referring to Hanukkah when he mentions it.  (I'll get you a verse if you'd like, just ask and I can look it up).\n\nSo some Christians think that no holiday should be celebrated if it is not in the Law.  Christmas and Easter and Birthdays are not mentioned therein.\n\nOthers would say that birthdays are ok because they are not religious.\n\nOthers would say that Christmas and Easter are not permissible because they derive from non-Christian holidays that they believe embraced ideas contrary to their faith.\n\nThere are many things which have become custom and the people tend to assume it is biblical, when really, it is not necessarily.  Even the idea of getting married in a church or place of worship is not mentioned, and yet many would say firmly that a marriage done in a courthouse is not a marriage "in the eyes of God."\n\nI don't know why they would hold this view except that they must be ignorant of what is in their scriptures and what is not.
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i have been in malaysia ...4 years ..in KL ..didnt knwo about that ..\n\ntrema kasih day! no ..idont think so ..\nbut they got many holidays ...more than here in iraq ..best one is hari raya and merdika ..\n\ndid i miss that?
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Greeks celebrate New Year's day the same way as most nations in the Western World.\n\nIn addition, the 1st of January it is the day of  St. Vasilios  -- therefore all people with the name of Vasilis or Vasilia celebrate their nameday (which in Greece is almost as important as their birthday).