"We're not suggesting 'no Christmas' or 'no Christmas displays at all,' but in contexts where we really do value respecting and including diversity in terms of religion, the safest option is not to have these kinds of displays.
"I understand why it might feel threatening to people.
"But I think if people do care about making a whole range of different kinds of people feel included and respected, then we can make some small changes that would go a long way toward creating a more multicultural or inclusive society."
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Oh really?
Maybe the results these 'scientists' obtained are from years of excessive political
correctness, diversity and multiculturalism, what I call the three toxic stews of the West. Over the last several decades these toxic stews have done more damage to our society and the moral foundations of the United States. By making everyone, every group, every 'religion, every ethnicity, every 'gender' feel special, included and respected, we have contributed greatly to our own demise. When the experts, scientists, politicians etc. make 'non-Christians feel more secure, it always comes at a cost to some other group or religion. Notice how hardly anyone seems to mention this? In this case if we 'remove' Christmas trees then what about how the Christians feel? Full article is below. From the Telegraph.co.uk.
Christmas trees 'make non-Christians feel excluded'
Christmas trees should be removed from public places to avoid making non-Christians feel “excluded”, scientists have suggested.
Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada, found non-Christians feel less self-assured and have fewer positive feelings if a Christmas tree was in the room.
The scientists conducted the study using 77 Christians and 57 non-believers, including Buddhists and Sikhs.
The participants did not know the survey was about Christmas, and were asked to fill in questions about themselves both when a 12-inch Christmas tree was in the room and when it was not.
"Non-celebrators" reported fewer positive feelings and less self-assurance in the Christmas room. Christians were mostly cheered by the tree.
Christians, however, did report feeling more guilt when a tree was in the room, which, claim the researchers, suggests the holidays can be stressful.
Michael Schmitt, a social psychologist behind the research, decided to carry out the study after controversy over whether Christmas should be celebrated in public in case it offends non-Christians.
He said: "Simply having this 12-inch Christmas tree in the room with them made them feel less included in the university as a whole, which to me is a pretty powerful effect from one 12-inch Christmas tree in one psychology lab.
"I don't think it's really going to undermine anyone's experience of Christmas to tone it down.
"We're not suggesting 'no Christmas' or 'no Christmas displays at all,' but in contexts where we really do value respecting and including diversity in terms of religion, the safest option is not to have these kinds of displays.
"I understand why it might feel threatening to people.
"But I think if people do care about making a whole range of different kinds of people feel included and respected, then we can make some small changes that would go a long way toward creating a more multicultural or inclusive society."
The researchers published their results in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
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