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December is that month of the year where every person around the world celebrates on his own way.
It is sales season for shopaholics, holidays month for introverts and also Christmas season for Christians.
Oh! no wait, it is also Christmas season for non-Christian Tunisians.
Weird, right!.
« Acting European » is a phenomenon that has conquered our community and became an adopted habit.
Normally, Christmas is the religious day where Christians, only Christians, celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
Held on December 25, they worship the birth of their prophet by performing certain traditions that involve decorating their streets and houses with christmas trees and lights.
However, these traditions not only started to brainwash Tunisians, but also it has become a tool to distinguish a certain « aristocratic » community.
Notably, this month a huge wave of christmas celebrations emerged on social media in Tunisia.
And what is even more frustrating is that influencers and content creators have been spreading this habit and normalizing it.
Is this a new wave of colonization? or a brand new form of disguised slavery?
It is true that slavery has ended years ago, however, I think that its legacy lives on.
This new influx of adopting the European lifestyle in order to appeal to a certain society, and to fit within some socially constructed structures , takes us back to the history of the white man’s burden and the westernization process.
The western culture has always been the utopian model of all cultures.
Therefore, Tunisians yielded to this belief by being blind consumers.

The desire to assimilate and integrate into the western culture made them abandon their collective identity and submit to another culture just for the « fun ».
So are they stupid ? careless? or they’re just unconscious followers of some subtle hand of a certain power?.
Unfortunately, Tunisians are easy prey to the west to be played with in their mind games , and social media influencers have accelerated the process by blindly imitating and urging their followers to do so.
I end by confirming Kanye West’s saying and linking it to this context, indeed, « slavery is a choice »!.