I am with you - too many Americanisms creeping into our culture, SUVs, Trick or Treat (not the same as Halloween), Black Friday - Santa Claus.
Next we will the celebrating Independence Day and Thanksgiving.
Is it just me or is it annoying that retailers have taken an American idea and introduced it to the Australian Market over the last few years ?
Have people forgotten the Black Friday fires ?
Maybe I'm just getting grumpy (or grumpier) over the last few years.
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I am with you - too many Americanisms creeping into our culture, SUVs, Trick or Treat (not the same as Halloween), Black Friday - Santa Claus.
Next we will the celebrating Independence Day and Thanksgiving.
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No, Black Friday in the USA got that name because, being the day after Thanksgiving and before the weekend, everyone who could, took it off and travelled, so it became a black day for sales. Retailers started to have specials on that day to try and improve sales figures, and it snowballed from there.
Seeing that Thanksgiving is not either an Australian celebration nor a holiday, there is absolutely no justification for it being any sort of special day, and as noted, the name has long been in use in a couple of states to remember disastrous fires.
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I heard only today that it came from the fact that Thanksgiving sales brought retailers back into the black after being in the red all year.
It starts at 5:35:
And I agree, Australia is being diluted, from traditions, through language usage down to spelling. I blame TV, in particular Sesame Street.
JayTee
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I'm with you too......
sales expected to be higher than xmas.
guess some people are cashed up not having had a spending spree in nearly 2 yrs.
Don't get me started on this crap, next thing it'll be independence day and thanks giving.
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Not that I particularly like it Australia has always been influenced by American culture. Have a look at the RM Williams logo, RM "Borrowed " the longhorn from Texas.
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Tote
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