Christmas has divorced so far from its religious origins that assuming you need to be religious or white to know these songs is… A rather ignorant view point on the history of the holiday and other winter time festivals. Exist in any country during the season and you quickly pick up on the local traditional songs and realize there’s many of the same just translated though time.

Christmas is celebrated in basically every country on earth in some fashion. It has different names or variations, but many of the older songs and traditions remain intact for the most part.

If I recall India’s variation of the holiday is called the bada din.

Winter festivals are absurdly common in every culture and thanks to the British Christmas has basically absorbed or been absorbed into damn well near all of them.

Hell that’s part of the reason some people say it should be Xmas not Christmas. Because really that’s what it is, a generic religious, sacred or otherwise noteworthy festival.

X denotes just how wide spread and all encompassing it has become.

Xmas is one of the few celebrations that nearly every human on this planet all collectively engage with. It’s one of the only unifying days we all agree to be nice to each other.

American, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Australian, Taiwanese, Peruvian, Japanese, you name it and they have a version of Xmas be it straight Christmas or a local version of it.

Be it a simple holiday, a national festival or just a simple religious observation.

It’s one of the only good things to have ever come from the age of empire and conquest.