Commercialism, Christmas, Culture and Consumerism

[Peter Muir]

With the festive season approaching, it brings together a number of aspects of the IGC Award.  How has Christmas spread (infiltrated?) into different cultures around the world? I'm thinking here of Balinese shopping malls decorated with Xmas trees and Balinese Hindus "celebrating" Christmas.  And this celebration relates a lot to shopping.  Discussions on the commercialisation of Christmas would be an interesting activity to explore .  This in turn leads to consumerism - how does celebrating Christmas impact my personal global footprint?  How has consumerism changed Christmas?  A quick internet search comes up with some good resources to look into this subject.