Why ‘Happy Holidays’ means more than it seems: our wish for a warm Christmas

Dear reader, One sentence has filled Flanders in recent days as if it were the stuffing of a hearty turkey. “Happy parties!” Caterers said it when customers came to order the fondue, teachers said it when collecting the Christmas report, colleagues shouted it on the last working day of the year. But what is that, a nice party?

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