only get 2 weeks off a YEAR -- not like the 45 days folks here in Qatar generously get. So it's not surprising that many people there choose not to spend their precious vacation days around religious holidays.
It's also common that everyone gets Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1 off -- but beyond that, if you want to, as you say, "club the Christmas holidays" (seriously? I've never met one person who has done this...), then they eat into their 2 weeks' of time, and most choose to save that for the better weather of summer, in my experience.
And you needn't get all pissy and sarcastic. I wasn't saying that it was oh so excruciating to sit in a hot car with bad A/C and not be able to drink. I was merely pointing out that Ramadan has no collective spiritual meaning for us non-Muslims so there's no upside to our depriving ourselves of food/water in public; we're not earning brownie points in heaven, it just kind of sucks.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou
only get 2 weeks off a YEAR -- not like the 45 days folks here in Qatar generously get. So it's not surprising that many people there choose not to spend their precious vacation days around religious holidays.
It's also common that everyone gets Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1 off -- but beyond that, if you want to, as you say, "club the Christmas holidays" (seriously? I've never met one person who has done this...), then they eat into their 2 weeks' of time, and most choose to save that for the better weather of summer, in my experience.
And you needn't get all pissy and sarcastic. I wasn't saying that it was oh so excruciating to sit in a hot car with bad A/C and not be able to drink. I was merely pointing out that Ramadan has no collective spiritual meaning for us non-Muslims so there's no upside to our depriving ourselves of food/water in public; we're not earning brownie points in heaven, it just kind of sucks.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou