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Public holidays - to have or not to have : Comments
By Dino Cesta, published 18/12/2014Should we re-evaluate our existing public holidays, to consider abolishing some and introducing other more worthy public holidays for significant events.
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<<However, national holidays do enforce a sense of what a culture values and what it doesn't.>>
And that's what's horrible about it.
'Enforce' means using force or violence. Who are those values enforced upon? Certainly not over those who already share those values - so the idea is to use violence in order to push certain cultural values by hook or by crook down the throat of those who either oppose them or simply have other priorities.