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Re: Halloween
« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2011, 12:55:02 AM »
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So what is everyone doing for Halloween?


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Re: Halloween
« Reply #30 on: November 01, 2011, 03:48:24 AM »
I'm writing coding documentation for a tilemap library.  It's just another day.  We don't get many (if any) trick-or-treaters out here on the farm.
 

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Re: Halloween
« Reply #31 on: November 01, 2011, 01:19:37 PM »
Our Americanisation
Tonight there'll be the sound of the front gate opening, whispers, scuffling noises and a knock, and will you open the door to trick or treaters expectantly or grudgingly? Or will you hide in a back room?
Halloween has been just the trick or treat bit in Australia for a few years, but Woolworths' reporting of tripling sales for all things Halloween suggests that the American tradition, or at least the American version of the tradition, is taking a hold. That's to be expected, I suppose, as simply a part of the Americanisation of Australia, a late part since the the Americanisation is very well advanced.

American culture is now the major influence in our food, our language, our sense of humour, our clothes, our emotional responses, our attitudes, and that is at its most obvious in the swapping of Australians' British reserve for American emotionalism. Another marked change is our new division of people as winners and losers, a division based largely on money.

Most of us have railed against trick or treating, and we've railed too against the wider Americanisation of Australia, but I suspect it's too late to fight. Should we spare ourselves the angst and embrace Halloween? Should we order a turkey for Thanksgiving? Are we be better off Americanised than when we were Anglicised?

http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff-corbett/our-americanisation/2339684.aspx
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #32 on: November 01, 2011, 01:27:54 PM »
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Our Americanisation
Tonight there'll be the sound of the front gate opening, whispers, scuffling noises and a knock, and will you open the door to trick or treaters expectantly or grudgingly? Or will you hide in a back room?
Halloween has been just the trick or treat bit in Australia for a few years, but Woolworths' reporting of tripling sales for all things Halloween suggests that the American tradition, or at least the American version of the tradition, is taking a hold. That's to be expected, I suppose, as simply a part of the Americanisation of Australia, a late part since the the Americanisation is very well advanced.

American culture is now the major influence in our food, our language, our sense of humour, our clothes, our emotional responses, our attitudes, and that is at its most obvious in the swapping of Australians' British reserve for American emotionalism. Another marked change is our new division of people as winners and losers, a division based largely on money.

Most of us have railed against trick or treating, and we've railed too against the wider Americanisation of Australia, but I suspect it's too late to fight. Should we spare ourselves the angst and embrace Halloween? Should we order a turkey for Thanksgiving? Are we be better off Americanised than when we were Anglicised?

http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff-corbett/our-americanisation/2339684.aspx

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Re: Halloween
« Reply #33 on: November 01, 2011, 02:29:04 PM »
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Marg bar Amrika!


Well, bless you too! :rolleyes:
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #34 on: November 01, 2011, 02:40:10 PM »
@persia

That's depressing. Not the "points" made in content, but the content itself. It's inaccurate, cynical, and reads like tabloid "reporting".
This "Americanisation" he talks of is nothing more than globalisation, something thats happening, err,.. globally. As technology brings the world closer together its only natural that some things are going to blend and become more global.
I disagree that our sense of humor is becoming americanised, and "emotional responses"? What the heck is that even meant to mean? As for our food, well that's down to the individual,... but personally the only similarities I see are if a person limits themselves to processed garbage from international franchises, you know, like anywhere in the world.

To drone on anything is to succumb to it in the same way anti conformity is simply conforming (ie. youre still being dictated to if you go out of your way to go against it).

Im personally a little embarssed to have others think that article is anything like a typical Australian. Why would you post such an obviously exaggerated, cynical, inaccurate, and down right stupid article?

Even sounds to me like youre trying to agree, which is baffling (unless youre trying to be irrationally cynical?)
« Last Edit: November 01, 2011, 02:45:25 PM by fishy_fiz »
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: Halloween
« Reply #35 on: November 01, 2011, 02:56:14 PM »
Oh, and back to the original topic, I didnt intentionally even think of Helloween on the day, but did coincidently spend the day reading a Richard Laymon novel, which is pretty Helloween-ish  :)

p.s. anyone ever read any Laymon?
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #36 on: November 01, 2011, 03:00:53 PM »
Spent Halloween in Providence, Rhode Island reading original manuscripts from the H. P. Lovecraft collection. Well okay, they were photocopies of the original manuscripts but I was able to read, "The History of the Necronomicon" and several other documents written in his own hand!
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #37 on: November 01, 2011, 03:12:23 PM »
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #38 on: November 01, 2011, 03:15:14 PM »
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Our Americanisation
Tonight there'll be the sound of the front gate opening, whispers, scuffling noises and a knock, and will you open the door to trick or treaters expectantly or grudgingly? Or will you hide in a back room?
Halloween has been just the trick or treat bit in Australia for a few years, but Woolworths' reporting of tripling sales for all things Halloween suggests that the American tradition, or at least the American version of the tradition, is taking a hold. That's to be expected, I suppose, as simply a part of the Americanisation of Australia, a late part since the the Americanisation is very well advanced.
 
American culture is now the major influence in our food, our language, our sense of humour, our clothes, our emotional responses, our attitudes, and that is at its most obvious in the swapping of Australians' British reserve for American emotionalism. Another marked change is our new division of people as winners and losers, a division based largely on money.
 
Most of us have railed against trick or treating, and we've railed too against the wider Americanisation of Australia, but I suspect it's too late to fight. Should we spare ourselves the angst and embrace Halloween? Should we order a turkey for Thanksgiving? Are we be better off Americanised than when we were Anglicised?
 
http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff-corbett/our-americanisation/2339684.aspx

Given that the forerunner of trick or treat came from Scotland and the UK, was taken up and changed in the USA and is now kind of of an import, I don't really see the point.
 
What are the Aussies worrying about, they have no culture of their own, so like the borg they must assimilate
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #39 on: November 01, 2011, 03:33:51 PM »
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Given that the forerunner of trick or treat came from Scotland and the UK, was taken up and changed in the USA and is now kind of of an import, I don't really see the point.
 
What are the Aussies worrying about, they have no culture of their own, so like the borg they must assimilate


Oh boy, it seems Amiga.org has turned into, "lets generalise with nonsense and insult other nations".org.

Good job persia, your usual chirpy attitude is doing your fellow country men proud (ok, thats blatant sarcasm for "you really are a sad, depressing cynical person"). Seriously guy, why are you even here? You do nothing but offer negative input towards *anything* unless its apple related.

@JJ

I understand your attitude. After all you sent your ciminals to a warm, rich. tropical island paradise while the rest of y'all stayed in cold, depressing, tiny england. Seems only natural to hold a grudge  :P
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #40 on: November 01, 2011, 05:03:48 PM »
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Our Americanisation


You're not spelling it "Americanization" yet, not American enough!
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #41 on: November 01, 2011, 05:19:11 PM »
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #42 on: November 01, 2011, 05:51:03 PM »
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Spent Halloween in Providence, Rhode Island reading original manuscripts from the H. P. Lovecraft collection. Well okay, they were photocopies of the original manuscripts but I was able to read, "The History of the Necronomicon" and several other documents written in his own hand!


A Lovecraft Halloween, I salute you sir.

As for the America bashing I keep reading I will say only this: I've met a fair few Americans in my life and my own Grandmother was born in Boston. I've liked nearly every American I've met and I think in general the American people are nice enough. Your government however are a bunch of evil psychos, sadly the same is true for our own UK government, I implore everyone to look beyond the lies of the media and to never judge a people by that countries politicians. Talk to people, be open, most of humanity is pretty decent.
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #43 on: November 01, 2011, 06:43:50 PM »
The problems there is no attempt to "Australianise" Halloween, just a wholesale absorption of it.  Right now it's the middle of Spring, it would be nice to incorporate bits of Spring into the holiday and less begging.  But maybe in today's world Australia is no longer an island and we need to accept the wholesale importation of a foreign culture.  Trick or Treat seems to have pretty much been absorbed by the UK too, so if we are following in the UK's footsteps.....
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Re: Halloween
« Reply #44 from previous page: November 01, 2011, 07:36:58 PM »
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Well, bless you too! :rolleyes:


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