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Originally Posted by matt
Well...first of all for the fairly shockingly selective editing (hatchet) job you did on my post and your subsequent quoting of me.
You conveniently left out the part where I referred to: but comments like "bugger the yanks" and "Aren't we more intelligent in Australia than to follow the lame brain American culture?" don't come over too well.
That's a couple of examples of comments which I think are fairly contemptuous and rude toward our American cousins.
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I didn't answer this deliberately in wanting to stir the pot any further. In the end, I think you are taking me well out of context..
What I said prior to saying "Bugger the yanks", was;
"Why do we promote something that represents the perpetuation of conformity in human cultures rather than establishing and celebrating the unique diversity of all world cultures. In OUR southern hemisphere, we should out and celebrating the coming of summer, where the winter chills are forgotten, and we can all be out in the open air, enjoying our skies and country"
Here I was referring too the homogenisation of culture being consumed and conforming to someone else ways instead of forging a path defining our own culture. Clearly the concept of Halloween is about the change of seasons going into winter (as stated so eloquently by mithrandir.)
In the southern hemisphere the seasons are reversed. My solution is to instead to add something new to our Australian way of life . Bugger the idea of being mere followers of another foreign country, lets follow our own destiny and celebrate aspects of OUR culture.That's is all I said!
As me saying "Aren't we more intelligent in Australia than to follow the lame brain American culture?" Well considering the number of people seemingly here willing to follow the cultist festivals, well perhaps Australians
are equally as lame brained as the American culture!
IMO, Halloween as celebrated by the Americans IS lame brained - and I think some American folk agree also with me! It seems an odd mixture of paganism, commercialism and propaganda to serve the Hollywood film machine to impose American culture on the rest of the world - as already established at least since the 1950s.
Frankly I want my cultural background to become more Australian. not less! "Halloween" is being export to Australia based on the American culture through the television media.
Ever wonder why the majority of TV each week is American? Have you thought how this impacts Australian culture, especially by targeting our children, and now consequentially, Halloween is being propagated through the schools. This is the same methodology as the blitz on advertising done by McDonalds when first establishing its operations in this country.
Ever wondered why the morning programmes flog Hollywood gossip as news or morning new programmes on nearly every commercial Australian networks? I.e. Sunrise and Today?
Why do the TV stations do this. I.e. What is their motive? Clearly they rely on American productions to fill in the airways, with the carrot being discounts on packaged studio-based a whole gambit of good and bad material. We buy the product, they fill our heads with mostly propaganda.
Perhaps instead of calling them lame brain, I should have called it as it simply is - media brainwashing. Rule #1. Get the little kiddies first. Works a treat everytime.
No wonder 84% of people in that poll I linked are against this event!!
As for those appearing as American apologists - well that another story!
