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...Philadelphia, Ahmed found friends from all different backgrounds who welcomed diversity and helped her, she says, become "a good balance of East meets West." Now 23, she and her non-Asian roommates threw a party to mark the Islamic holiday 'Id al-Fitr in November, then threw another for Christmas???which her family never celebrated. "I chose to embrace both holidays instead of segregating myself to one," she says...
...Americans wish to believe about their national character is housed in sports: vitality, spontaneity, the bursting of bonds. No state religion for the U.S., but sports will do as well. The Puritans condemned games as antispiritual. Their heirs retaliated by fusing holidays with tournaments?football on Thanksgiving, basketball at Christmas???all blasphemies culminating in Super Sunday. Thorstein Veblen contended that sports and religion have the same genesis in a basic "belief in an inscrutable propensity or a preternatural interposition in the sequence of events." We'll take his word for it. In simpler terms, Americans make stadiums their churches because...
Shut Up Shebeens. There is another reason why there was less heavy drinking in Soweto this Christmas???government-owned beer halls and liquor stores, burned down by students last June in protest against white authority, have not been rebuilt. Moreover, yet another SSRC directive demanded that the hundreds of illegal shebeens (speakeasies) close down during the mourning period. After the fire-bombing of a few that stayed open, the shebeen queens (women operate most speakeasies) duly shut up shop, and Sowetoans did their Christmas drinking quietly at home...
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