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I saw this news report on a Philippine online newspaper. I found it both funny and sad.
In a nutshell: 20 single Japanese men were protesting Christmas because it's a symbol of capitalism and commercialization.
What they're using is absolutely true but I think the deeper cause is they have no one to celebrate Christmas with.
In Japan, Christmas is an event for couples much like how Valentines is celebrated in the West. If you're unmarried, single or no guts to ask someone to a date, then you can just forget a Christmas celebration. No wonder these single men are protesting!
Though I sympathize with these single men, I find their protest childlish. They're like people who were uninvited to party they want to go to. They said that they want to "break the barrier of Japanese Christmas" that caters for couples. I suggest, instead of protesting, they hold a singles Christmas party. That would be so much fun than staging a protest.
Anyway, here's the report:
Anti-Christmas protesters calling themselves “Losers with Women” marched through Tokyo’s streets Saturday, bashing the upcoming holiday as a capitalist ploy that also discriminates against singletons.
The group of about 20 — part of the Communist-inspired group that routinely protests Western holidays — marched under angry banners that read “Smash Christmas!” in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, where couples and families strolled for holiday shopping.
The scrooges — mostly single men — said they were against capitalism and were opposed to the commercialization of Christmas.
“In this world, money is extracted from people in love, and happy people support capitalism,” said the head of the organization, formally called Kakumeiteki Hi-mote Domei, or the Revolutionary Losers’ League.“Christmas is the most symbolic event for this,” he added.
The man, who identified himself only by the pseudonym Mark Water, said the rally was also in support of unloved men.
“Unpopular men, who don’t have a girlfriend or are not married, are overly discriminated. We want to break this barrier,” he told AFP amid the shouting protesters.
Read more here: Angry single men stage anti-Christmas rally in Tokyo
