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Thanks for another wonderful piece by Cintra Wilson. I have to admit, though not quite as colorful as her family, what she describes is so much closer to my own experience every year that it makes me think that this (dare I say it, "multi-cultural" collision), is probably not that uncommon and is perhaps the unifying element in the paranoia that is the "War on Christmas" that we keep hearing about; the fact that Christmas is increasingly less about the christian religious aspects and more an excuse to hang with the "family" - the ever fractured, non-linear, extended-in-name only, bizarre entity that is the american family. It seems to me that the cultural wars are nothing more than taking a look in the mirror and seeing the edifice of every accepted cultural norm being turned on it's head and a shitload of people that are, like, "okay" with it.
