My understanding of the Christmas

zychen1973

The end of year is upon us, which means the third Christmas of my landing Canada is buzzing. It seems like this festival means more and more to us with the years lapsed. I am not meant that I began to prepare the Christmas tree or candles to decorate my apartment. No, not for those physical materials of Christmas, rather, I feel my attitude changing compared with our first year’s feelings to Christmas. I began to regard this big day as our day, you know, not just for those “local people” specialized festival. This is the day for all of us who live in Canada!

" O2 X' q) W+ O- \: ZIf you connected with those so-called western people, you would find that nobody originally belong to this land. Of course, except for those aboriginal Indian. We are all foreigner and we are all host to this land as well. The difference between Canadian and us is our appearance. They are invisible minority and we, Chinese or other Asian, are visible minority. That’s it! Therefore, why treat Christmas as others’ festival rather than ours since we immigrant here and live here now?

Maybe someone would say: we are Chinese, and we celebrate our traditional spring festival as well. You are right! However, did you experience that kind of situation that is when people in China in a festival mood, you, situated in a far-away country where no merry ambient around you. How do you feel at that moment? Lonely, definitely!

Some of us would wake up at midnight in Chinese New Year and log on the Internet to watch the big party of festival, but, again, we got no as merry mood as it should be. I, myself, only woke up once at the first year of my landing. After that, I never get up at that kind of early morning. Maybe this Boxing Day, I will get up, haha.

So, when people stayed here three or more years, I consumed that most of immigrant began to take Christmas seriously than before. I am so glad to see there are so many warm-hearted people in this forum to prepare the Christmas party and New Year party. For my opinion, we deserve any happy moment that occurred in this country and we are responsible for celebrating this Christmas for ourselves, isn’t it?

Note: some people are easy to involve, so this article is not suitable for you. In fact, this one maybe only fit for my own case.  
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Happy Christmas! Every One!
:D

zychen1973

请高手给指点一下：题目该怎么说？ 我对圣诞节的理解，或者圣诞节之我见。 介词用of or to? or others? thanks a lot!

connie

就题目而言，of 就可以了，不必改成to, 但是得去掉the

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3 P/ s$ C2 L# N/ F; F. H" bThe end of year is upon us, which means the third Christmas of my landing in Canada is buzzing. It seems like this festival means more and more to us with the years lapsed. I do not mean that I began to prepare the Christmas tree or candles to decorate my apartment. No, not for those physical attributes of Christmas, rather, I feel my attitude is changing compared with our first year’s feelings towards Christmas. I began to regard this big day as our day, you know, not just as a festival for those “local people” . This is the day for all of us who live in Canada!
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  {% `* _6 t" x7 VIf you are connected with those so-called western people, you would find that nobody originally belonged to this land. Of course, except for those aboriginal Indians. We are all foreigner and we are all host to this land as well. The difference between Canadians and us is our appearance. They are  invisible minority and we, Chinese or other Asians, are visible minority. That’s it! Therefore, why treat Christmas as others’ festival rather than ours since we are immigrants here and live here now?

Maybe someone would say: we are Chinese, and we celebrate our traditional spring festival as well. You are right! However, did you experience that kind of situation that is (删掉) when people in China are in a festival mood, you, living  in a far-away country where there is no merry atmosphere around you. How do you feel at that moment? Lonely, definitely!

Some of us would wake up at midnight during the Chinese New Year and log on the Internet to watch the big party of festival, but, again, we did not get into such a merry mood as it should be. I, myself, only woke up once during the first year of my landing. After that, I never get up at that kind of early morning I never get up again that early in the morning. Maybe this Boxing Day, I will get up, haha.
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So, when people stayed here three or more years, I assume that most of (删掉) immigrants began to take Christmas more seriously than before. I am so glad to see there are so many warm-hearted people in this forum to prepare the Christmas party and New Year's party. In my opinion, we deserve any happy moment that occurred occurrs in this country and we are responsible for celebrating this Christmas for ourselves, aren't we?

:D：部分修改处并非纠错性的，只是觉得改后会好一滴滴:D

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zychen1973

I will pay attention to those high frequency errors in my later writings. thanks, connie.

OliveOil

Christmas now is not just a religious holidays, even for local people. In my opinion, since we Chinese don't have the chance and mood, most importantly the days off to celebrate our traditional family holidays--Spring Festival, why not take the opportunity of Christmas to get together once a year with all of our family and close friends, specially while we are far away from our own land?
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3 s# T6 ^# a# ]6 ]6 UI look at Christmas as a family holiday. That's all and therefore I celebrate it. Just for fun, I have a big Christmas tree and all the beautiful ornamanents set up. I even join the rush of holiday shopping for gifts for my family! Anyhow it is the biggest day for the entire year to enjoy the holiday spirit!

zychen1973

I am so glad that I got response from both leaders of this part forum. :P