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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid is probably saying stuff at school. [/quote]

Exactly.  I posted that about an hour ago too.
I bet when they are doing Christmas activities/lessons OP's kid is making a big deal about how his family doesn't do X or knows that Y isn't true, etc.[/quote]

I doubt this is true. If it was they would have brought it up. There is a lot of reading between the lines going on. [/quote]

Op here. I don't think that is true because our child is pretty young however he has been acting strange and sad when he goes to school lately. I can ask. He's okay when he comes home on the bus. He's very social and has a lot of friends. For certain holidays I usually don't disclose anything to my neighbors. I have before and I can see the disappointment, especially on Halloween. A lot of our neighbors (50 percent) aren't Christian but they put up Christmas lights and Halloween decorations. For Halloween, my kids don't dress up and I bring them late to school. They still attend class parties, eat cake, etc. Some people value privacy. I have an Iranian friend who doesn't like disclosing where she's from in certain situations. Other people are from Palestine but may say Jordan or Egypt. I have another friend who is Russian but says she's Ukrainian. When people ask where we are from I disclose but my husband doesn't always like to disclose.

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This doesn't sound like a great way to make friends honestly. I'm very liberal and don't care what religion someone is (or if they have none) but it’s hard to make friends with someone who seems cagey all the time. What religion is against Halloween costumes? I live in a very diverse area and don't know anyone against dressing up.[/quote]

I’m a first generation American and also not a Christian. I can say with one hundred percent confidence that it’s the people who say they are “very liberal and don’t care what religion someone is” who are the most bigoted.

You are the reason that people like me and the OP like to keep our origins private. I’m a person, an individual who is not defined by my ethnicity or religion or sex or any of the other little classification that liberals like to group people into. I’m not a box for you to check on your list of “diverse” friends, so that you can feel good about how open-minded you are while conveniently putting me in a category of “other” and “distinct” from you.[/quote]

Okay. But don’t be confused when you keep everyone at arms length. [/quote]

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