Calls for boycott of Christmas in China rather miss the point

"ALL CHINESE PEOPLE should cherish our traditions and boycott foreign festivals!" On Christmas Day, groups of female college students wearing traditional clothes appeared at several tourist sites in Chengdu, South China's Sichuan province, calling for people to boycott Christmas. Beijing News comments:

Every December, there are some people that call on others to boycott Christmas. They protest on the streets and some of the more radical ones even disturb the normal operations of shops. These people have one reason in common for their actions, they regard Christmas as a foreign festival and when Chinese celebrate it that's a kind of cultural invasion.

It seems these people are rather ignorant. They do not know that New Year is a foreign festival and they forget the calendar we currently use originated in the West, too. That's not a cultural invasion; instead, that's cultural interaction between the East and the West.