What’s up with the US holidays calendar

I’m annoyed with all these ‘non holidays’ cluttering up the calendar as well. This year suddenily noticed Edi al-Fitr is coming up what ever the **** that is in June. Wish there was at least a filter so some of us can turn off or at least hide all these non holidays & international holidays we know nothing about & or don't care about. I don't mean to sound like an ugly American or anything but I would prefer to just have official federal holidays where people have both work & school off at the minimum. I’m really getting tired of the so called ‘PC police’ now.

Nobody but US Federal Government employee’s get all of the Federal Government Employee Holidays off. There are less than 3 million US Federal Government employees, so less than about 2% of the entire US working population actually observes the US Federal Government Employee Holiday schedule in its entirety.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

You do sound like an ugly American as Edi al-Fitr is neither a "non-holiday" or an international holiday. It is a holiday celebrated by over three million U.S. Citizens. How is including a holiday celebrated by U.S. citizens in a U.S. Holiday calendar "p.c."?

Let‘s stop beating around the bush. Complaining about PC is saying “I’m am racist and a bigot who believes that me and my kind are the only ’Americans’ who have rights.“

ppostma1 wrote:

Unfortunately, Apple does not suggest the solutions in the preview of this discussion and it takes a long time to dig through 16 pages to find it.

Yeah, it's so awful having to spend ten minutes looking through a thread! Or three minutes doing an internet search!

The vitriolic responses are to people who very obviously didn't read any of this topic before adding yet another gripe. They simply found this topic and added their own, useless rant. Had they bothered to read it, FIRST, they would have found the solution multiple times, with no need to add any comment at all.

ppostma1 wrote:

that has a lot to do with the mass unhelpful, vitriolic replies to this thread

I agree. The posts casually expressing bigotry and prejudice are absolutely disgusting and hard to wade through.

i’m still highly amused at the suggestion that a few folks getting upset and offended about Easter being left off the calendar and campaigning to get their religious holiday added are getting so upset that the religious holidays of most of the other 5 BILLION people on the planet were also added.

Apple has millions if not tens of millions of customers that represent pretty much every religion, race and gender identity out there....and then for a customer to expect that company to produce something to meet a single person’s desires and preferences to the exclusion of others????? On a much larger scale it’s like going to Baskin Robbins, declaring that you hate Jamaica Almond Fudge along with 15 of their other flavors and demanding that the shop stop selling the flavors that you personally don’t like and ONLY sell the flavors that you, an individual, approve of.

You dont’ like a flavor of ice cream...dont’ order it.

You don’t like the contents of a calendar....don’t use it.

Sadly, some people view things from a very zero-sum perspective. Any respect or recognition given to groups other than their own is seen as diminishing them. It strikes me as such a sad, angry and limited way of looking at the world.

forumscanhelpus wrote:

Thank you! This is much better than the cluttered apple calendar. Most people only practice one religion and don't need to know every religion's holidays.

That is a good point. However, for me, I have co-workers and some of them practice other religions, including all of the religions in the Apple holidays calendar (Eastern Orthodox, Hindu, Muslim and Jewish). I find it useful to know when they will be celebrating so I can wish them happiness, and some of them will take time off to celebrate. I know not to invite my Muslim friends to lunch during Ramadan, because they fast during daylight hours. I know not to bring baked treats for my jewish friends during Passover unless they are yeast-free. And, as I reside in the NYC area, local schools are closed for the religious celebrations of other faiths. And, of course, that some parking regulations in NYC are suspended on many religious holidays; that's very valuable information.

And most of these new invasions on my US Calendar are for “citizens”? Wonder if Memorial Day, Flag Day, 4th of July etc. are on Apple’s Arabian/Mexican/.....Holiday Calendars? Surely there are Americans living there also.

There are many holidays such as St. Patrick’s day that I would like to not see but they cannot be deleted. And there-in lies the solution - GIVE US CONTROL OF OUR OWN Computers and iPads. We should be allowed to delete those holidays we do not want.

I will definitely have to get rid of the iCalendar and get another one: this is a sad state of affairs when I have no control

over my own calendar, on equipment that I have purchased.

Haha, I was actually replying to a post on page 2 of this discussion so not sure how it ended up on page 17, but you on the other hand could not even read my entire comment that appeared just below your own.

I stated (to make it clear to someone with literary deficits) that “I will have to get rid of the iCalendar”. Seems pretty clear to me. And my gripe is that when I selected the calendar with US holidays four years ago they update it to what it is now (and yeah, Juneteenth Day is celebrated by how many Americans?) with me not having the option to delete the

preponderance of unwanted recurring events and alerts. Subject closed.

but you on the other hand could not even read my entire comment that appeared just below your own.

Bull. You have no other comments in this topic, or anywhere else on these forums. I have no posts on page 2. Is lying also one of your talents?

Insoptivos wrote:

And most of these new invasions on my US Calendar are for “citizens”? Wonder if Memorial Day, Flag Day, 4th of July etc. are on Apple’s Arabian/Mexican/.....Holiday Calendars? Surely there are Americans living there also.

Are you suggesting the over 3 million Muslims, 3 million Hindus and over 6 million Jews who are citizens of the U.S. are some how less important than you are? Their passports look the same as yours. They aren't stamped "Second Class Citizen".

No, not entirely, but they were certainly front and center when Easter disappeared. Then weren’t happy when it came back because of all of those other icky ones being included.

No matter who’s doing the complaining, it has always really came down to, “Can‘t you simply ignore the events that don‘t apply to you?” But then, these would be the same type of people who would take a magic marker and totally obiviate those “bad” events on their printed calendars.

I think it's a symptom of some very unfortunate ideas that have undergone a resurgence (or at least are more public) in the U.S. But, as the Hosts frown upon too much politics in the general forums, I will leave it at that except to say the following. I love the fact that I live in a country that people desperately want to come to because of our founding philosophies of equality, freedom of speech and religion. It breaks my heart when we don't live up to our ideals.