This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

I also find this interesting.

Additional non-Eagleland perspectives, please? How do you guys feel about American culture seep? Does it deprive local culture of the limelight, or is it a tolerable import?

A bit of both.

I'm in Canada, it is friggin' cold. I think a year ago it was snowing all of October where I was. Year before that it was raining hard. Everyone was wearing parkas and jackets over their costumes, so most trick-or-treaters were angry, if not sad that they can't have as much fun as people in the U.S.. They then ask their parents for candy since half the houses were like, "Are you crazy? It's fucking snowing, go away" and the other half were "Uhh yeah we weren't really expecting many kids to go trick-or-treating so here, have ONE Rockets since we didn't buy much candy."

and then some kids just plain couldn't make it b/c their parents suck and think it's too cold.
it's never too cold, suck it up

and yet, in the downtown area, all the adults were havin' COSTUME PARTIES INDOORS AND FUN AND AWESOMENESS.

Conclusion: in Canada, having "Traditional trick-or-treating" and all that is (for the most part) unlikely so adults resort to MAKING THEIR OWN AWESOME OCCASIONS as the rest of us adolescents (and younger) suffer.