Traditions and holidays

[tjassi]

So the internet tells me that today is Valentines Day *surprise* and I couldn't care less. But there's just something I wanted to talk about related to Valentines Day.
Last time I was home at my mum's and we ended up talking about Valentines Day, her boyfriend started talking about how much he dislikes Valentines and Halloween because they were just weird holidays/traditions imported from America and not REAL DANISH TRADITIONS LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!! -.- This is where I got irritated.

1. Christmas is a Christian celebration of Jesus. I'd like to know just how much of a Christian he is!
2. The Christmas as in celebration of Jesus, came to Denmark around the Viking age, but the "Old Danish Christmas" as we know it today is only around 150 years old and imported from countries as Germany, Sweden and Great Britain. So yeah, it's a really Danish tradition. 
3. Also I'd like to know if he knows why we celebrated Christmas, or 'Jul' as it's called in Danish, before how we do it today. In the Viking age it was celebrated in January and was more of a winter feast where we celebrated that the days were getting longer with more light. And later on it was more about the Christian message and the wish that the coming year might bring fertility and good harvest. No Christmas tree, no decorations, just a casual Christmas dinner and then there were small humble gifts for the kids, they were not even wrapped.

Sorry for the long boring entry, I just needed to get it out. ^^''
And happy Valentines Day, Tuesday or whatever.