Comment on Happy American import day
Zagorath@aussie.zone 18 hours agoIt’s probably a little overly simplistic to think of it as being “established” like that. Instead, multiple different elements of the holiday, which might originate in different places at different times and radiate out in different ways.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 42 minutes ago
Then by your own logic, why are you blaming this entirely on the US?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 35 minutes ago
I’m not. I’m blaming capitalism and cultural imperialism, for the forced import of a piece of American culture.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 33 minutes ago
Who’s ‘forcing’ it? It’s spreading because people have fun with it.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 23 minutes ago
Shops and media which profit from increased sales and viewership. Same as the recent “black Friday sales” nonsense despite the fact that we don’t have Thanksgiving.
Incidentally, I wouldn’t mind Thanksgiving. It’d need adapting to the Australian context, but it feels a hell of a lot less commercial than Hallowe’en…which is probably why there hasn’t been any attempt to bring it here.