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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoThen by your own logic, why are you blaming this entirely on the US?
Comment on Happy American import day
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoThen by your own logic, why are you blaming this entirely on the US?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Who’s ‘forcing’ it? It’s spreading because people have fun with it.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 weeks 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.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Dude Thanksgiving is like the most imperialist holiday, it’s pretty much American propaganda about how the native Americans were totally cool with colonialism and in the modern context is about buying lots of excessive food. Christmas is the capitalist day but Thanksgiving is not much better
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thanksgiving is not celebrated correctly anywhere it is celebrated. It originally was a set of 12 or 13 harvest festivals that the English settlers appropriated a single one each. That is literally a celebration of imperialism. Watch Addams Family Values if you want to see an appropriate representation of what thanksgiving should look like.
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
You mean Australia Day. You’re describing Australia Day.
Also thanksgiving is like THE most american fucking thing outside of superbowl and genocidal to boot…but you wanna bring that in while having big problems with an organic creep of hallowe’en. Which has been celebrated in Australia for two hundred freaking years.
Fuck’s sake
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The shops aren’t the ones going around saying ‘trick or treat!’. The kids / families are doing it because they enjoy it. And you’re determined to be a killjoy for some weird reason.