What Christmas is all about ?

I grew up knowing about christmas being the day christians celebrate as Jesus' birth, but I think the force of commericalism has totally taken over the holiday and it is mostly just about gifts and partying. When I was a kid it still was all about the gifts and food and now even more so. The celebration of the birth of Jesus was lost a long time ago to the masses on a whole. I could say it is because many more people in the western world now are not christian but I don't think that is the reason. Still the majority of people here are christian and yet many of them do not choose to celebrate the day as his birth but rather the day santa comes. I live in a community where my family is probably one of the only non christians around and yet I still don't see many references to Jesus during the holidays. But I see tons and tons of other things like reindeer, presents and santas. This to me is because people are influenced by marketing more than their own faith. Also considering the fact that many western people are in debt living large and not living meger lifestyles like christ shows what power commericalism has on our society. I am not saying all people are like this but it is considered the majority or our society that is living this way.