In the First World we are used to the mantra, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.” It isn’t that way in the rest of the world.
In areas where the Orthodox churches are predominate it would be “Happy New Year and a Merry Christmas.”
In Africa it would not be “Happy Kwanza and a happy new year.” In southern Africa it would still be “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” followed by the question, “What is a Kwanza?” Northern Africa being predominately Muslim would not celebrate Christmas.
And of course you would need to make allowances for the traditional New Years of different cultures such as Jewish and Chinese New Years.
May God’s blessing rest on you in the coming year.
homo unius libri
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