Noél
Keywords: holidays, festivals
| Pronunciation (IPA): | no'el |
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| Part of Speech: | term noun |
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| Forms: | Noél, Zra Noél |
| Glosses: | Noël, Christmas, New Years |
Description:
The New World Order is trying to run a multi-ethnic global hegemony in a way that emphasizes unity and doesn't recognise the rights of traditional groups. At the same time, it is a capitalist entity whose corporate power centres like a good holiday to drive business. Finally, while authoritarian in bent, the New World Order does not have the resources to be totalitarian and tries to rely on the willing support of the population to some extent to ensure its stability, and people love traditional holidays.
This makes holidays a fraught issue, and the New World Order threads the needle by promoting holidays with a secular, materialistic bent and trying to encourage their secular tendencies and global observace. Nowhere is this more evident than with the traditional holiday of Christmas and its attendant orgy of spending.
The word for Christmas is taken form the French Noël, possibly out of a combination of international recognisability and pronounciability in Common. It is rendered in Common as Noél. Noél is only used as a noun. The traditional greeting is 'zra Noél', roughly 'true Christmas'. It is an interjection and is used without a determiner.