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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @08:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @08:00PM (#755314)

    Most horrifying thing this Halloween is the continued hegemonic encroachment of US holiday traditions into non-US parts of the world.

    Err, hate to tell you this, but this 'holiday tradition' is mostly Scottish and to a lesser extent Irish in origin, a bastardised and sanctified vestige of the old Celtic Samhain festival, and I know there are a number of Scots and those of Scottish ancestry in Australia (got relatives down there), ditto wrt the Irish, so the tradition shouldn't be that much of a stranger to your shores.

    Yes, the 'Scottish Holiday', as one late Victorian USian writer WASPishly called it, has been well and truly Borg'd. commercialised and 'made theirs' by the USians then re-exported globally, even back to the source (e.g. I see lots of carved pumpkin lanterns here now instead of the neep lanterns of my youth, I suppose it makes sense as they're a hell of a lot easier to carve), but that's the USians for you, Cultural Magpies..brash noisy Cultural Magpies...

    As an asides, some of the 'Witch' costumes I've seen on sale are neither part of the Scottish or American traditions, but bear a hell of a lot of similarity to the costumes worn by some of the witches in various Animes, albeit usually cheaply faux-Gothed up a bit versions, so I'm assuming a Chinese/Eastern influence is now working its way in to the mix.

    Besides, what are you complaining about? you Aussies should be used to the USian hegemony by now as they've pwned you lot since Gough Whitlam got 'Royally backstabbed' at the behest of the USian TLAs.