Europe: Halloween “undermines our cultural identity”
Oct 29th, 2005 | by Neil Barton | Posted in humor | Comments Off
VIENNA, Austria – It’s almost Halloween — and all those ghosts, goblins, tricks and treats are giving Hans Kohler the creeps. So the mayor of Rankweil, a town near the border with Switzerland, has launched a one-man campaign disparaging Halloween as a “bad American habit” and urging families to skip it this year.
ADVERTISEMENT“It’s an American custom that’s got nothing to do with our culture,” Kohler wrote in letters sent out to households. By midweek, the mayors of eight neighboring villages had thrown their support behind the boycott. So had local police, annoyed with the annual Oct. 31 uptick in vandalism and mischief.
