You know what doesn't really grind my gears?

[Roto13]

1) Right now, Christmas is a National Holiday.

Alright.

2) The obligation people feel to give people something on this holiday.

What obligation?

3) The commercialism.

You're just doing it wrong. Christmas at my house is a family thing, not a commercial thing.

4) School being out.

People need a break half way through the school year or they'll explode.

3) The concept of nationality.

No, no, no. You do realize that nationalism is in itself at least as bad as racism and sexism, right? Only, at least in those cases there is some vaguely conceivable reasoning behind them? Here is a hint the geographic co-ordinates you happen to be born within do not have any inherent bearing on who you are. The fact that you might grow up in a different culture is hypocritical; A financier in London is going to have more in common with financiers in other major cities in other countries than with some fisherman at the arse end of Shetland. One world government is the only ethical, rational, and secure way forward.

It's pretty naive to say that someone's country (which is not only a big part of their environment, but is actually the environment that influences the environment) doesn't have any influence on kind of person they grow up to be. My fingers hurt.