"South Asian Diwali festival" is like celebrating "lunar new year" by East Asians. This new year was based on the calendar invented in China by at least the 14th century BC (yes, BC) if not earlier, from where it propagated to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. In English it was always called "Chinese New Year" until the PC crowd, to support their fabricated social-activist notion of "Asian American," a pure 1960's absurdity, dissociated it from Chinese history to call it "lunar new year." In fact, the Chinese calendar isn't even a lunar calendar. It is a soli-lunar calendar, with months based on the moon and years based on the sun. "Lunar new year" is pure woke (and/or ignorant) nonsense (as is the term "Asian American" -- I know, respect, and like Indians, but to put them and the Chinese in the same "identity" is ridiculous).
"South Asian Diwali festival" is like celebrating "lunar new year" by East Asians. This new year was based on the calendar invented in China by at least the 14th century BC (yes, BC) if not earlier, from where it propagated to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. In English it was always called "Chinese New Year" until the PC crowd, to support their fabricated social-activist notion of "Asian American," a pure 1960's absurdity, dissociated it from Chinese history to call it "lunar new year." In fact, the Chinese calendar isn't even a lunar calendar. It is a soli-lunar calendar, with months based on the moon and years based on the sun. "Lunar new year" is pure woke (and/or ignorant) nonsense (as is the term "Asian American" -- I know, respect, and like Indians, but to put them and the Chinese in the same "identity" is ridiculous).