Comment Re:Mental Note for Slashdot Editors... (Score 1) 437
It's got nothing to do with not liking Halloween. Aussies love a good dress and piss up as much as the next nation. The grumpyness comes from the feeling that you are being invaded and taken over by a foreign power. You know that creeping dread that the Chinese are going to take over the world by buying everything that you see on TV even if you don't feel it yourself? The rest of the world has felt like that about the US for as long as I know. We get all your movies and TV and by and large the US ignores the cultural output of the rest of the world and even remakes the good stuff so that it contains American accents and references. It's nobodies fault and it's not helpful but when people see kids aping American customs it gives them the shits (not literally, that's an Australianism).