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Boxing Day is traditionally a day following Christmas when wealthy people and homeowners in the United Kingdom would give a box containing a gift to their servants. Nowadays Boxing Day is better known as a bank or public holiday that occurs on December 26, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws. It is observed in Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and some other Commonwealth nations.

Boxing Day is a bank or public holiday that occurs on December 26, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws. It is observed in Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and some other Commonwealth nations. In South Africa, ...


Why have you Edited the bit I just edited? The current 'Boxing Day' information does not inform the reader of what the day actually celebrates, only of boring and detached current regulations of it. Anyone who searches for Boxing Day on Wikipedia will leave without understanding what the tradition is.


I corrected what I saw to be a mistake, about a tradition of my country, and found myself in an 'edit-war' with those who appeared to have a detached and foreign view of traditional customs I have grown up with, yet somehow they appeared to have the authority to continually remove my edit. At first I thought it must be a mistake and I re-edited it. But my honestly-put edition kept disappearing without comment, how rude.