I do live in the US, actually. In my case it's not so much that I'm arguing for Christian holidays but for family holidays, there's just a significant overlap. My standard expectations of day off-ness are Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day, those being the times we went to visit my grandparents out of state. Other than those, people can make their own arrangements; I personally have a standard request for Halloween evening, it being my mother's birthday and general favorite holiday. I don't mind Easter not closing too much, but boy I get cranky for Christmas. (Although not being Christian, I've volunteered to be part of a skeleton crew for it before.) So really I suppose I'm not being fair, but everybody needs a day off sometime, right?