Socially Acceptable

Last night I was having a discussion on what is socially acceptable in on circle may not be in another. An example it really isn’t very socially acceptable for a 36-year-old man not to be married in some circles say the church and if he were out in the bars every night picking up woman it would be just fine in other circles.

Now how about seasonal questions, I know first hand that because I don’t participate in Halloween activities at work it is not considered socially acceptable, but we all get through it.

Last week one of the bloggers I read regularly commented on how he disliked snow. My goodness the responses he got were amazing, he was called selfish and berated for posting something like that on his own blog. I guess not liking snow isn’t socially acceptable. However, if you lived somewhere like Montana or Michigan and made a statement like that where snow is abundant you would probably get more folks that agree with you than those opposed.

And now the big sacred cow Christmas, yes Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ and a lot of people live for this time of year, but think about it, at Easter we don’t morn the death of Christ because He is past that, so why are we so fixated on His birth. Don’t get me wrong. I love Jesus and have a personal relationship with Him. In that I celebrate who He is every day. So when someone isn’t totally gaga over Christmas and the hoopla are they socially unacceptable?

That is the question: who determines what is socially acceptable in the social circles we live in?