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Your opinion is not a fact.
Neither is yours. There have been a number of religions that practiced holidays at the winter solstice.. such as Triespero celebrating the birth of Hercules. It's not a matter of 'copying' each other. It's a matter of a regular celestial event that has significance to people. You don't have to come in contact with other cultures and religions to notice, well, the days are starting to get longer. Iran had the Yalda festival, when Mithra was supposed to have been born (The Iranian mithraism is much older than the Roman one). Stonehenge marked the winter solstice, and that is far older than even Judaism.
Let's face it, the reason for the season is the tilt of the earth on the axis, and that was happening long before man came on the scene. Man just noted it, and gave it religious significance.