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	<title>Comments on: Halloween Stories</title>
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		<title>By: Christoph</title>
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		<description>That first story is just hilarious. First of all I&#039;m kinda surprised that 9yr old child knows who Hitler was, but I guess he probably likes to watch the history channel or so...
But the father&#039;s response is priceless.

On a side note: They&#039;re trying to kinda introduce Halloween in Switzerland (and Germany as well), so like 5yrs ago suddenly the stores were starting to sell costumes and masks and stuff. And some TV channels made and still make specialized ads for their Halloween program etc... But so far it&#039;s still a minor event in Switzerland. I guess in 20-30 years when the childs that actually celebrate Halloween now are grown up and have children on their own it might become a more widespread thing in Switzerland. But right now it&#039;s such an obvious marketing strategy by the stores and TV channels and most people aren&#039;t really buying it cause it&#039;s not a tradition here. Looks like &quot;creating&quot; a &quot;new tradition&quot; on a national basis is pretty hard to do. [I guess &quot;new tradition&quot; is a contradiction in itself but I can&#039;t think of a better word to substitute tradition]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That first story is just hilarious. First of all I&#8217;m kinda surprised that 9yr old child knows who Hitler was, but I guess he probably likes to watch the history channel or so&#8230;<br />
But the father&#8217;s response is priceless.</p>
<p>On a side note: They&#8217;re trying to kinda introduce Halloween in Switzerland (and Germany as well), so like 5yrs ago suddenly the stores were starting to sell costumes and masks and stuff. And some TV channels made and still make specialized ads for their Halloween program etc&#8230; But so far it&#8217;s still a minor event in Switzerland. I guess in 20-30 years when the childs that actually celebrate Halloween now are grown up and have children on their own it might become a more widespread thing in Switzerland. But right now it&#8217;s such an obvious marketing strategy by the stores and TV channels and most people aren&#8217;t really buying it cause it&#8217;s not a tradition here. Looks like &#8220;creating&#8221; a &#8220;new tradition&#8221; on a national basis is pretty hard to do. [I guess "new tradition" is a contradiction in itself but I can't think of a better word to substitute tradition]</p>
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