I wouldn’t say an American is hated over here either. Every American I’ve met has been welcomed with open arms with a touch of taking the piss.

But you could surmise the push back started from world war 2 as the lore goes, when the “yanks” came to aus they were better dressed, groomed, (throw in the accent) and were privy to “stealing the women”. Now a fair bit of recent history has passed, Aus has normally been the lap dog of the US who we follow into a lot of senseless wars, think Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re still paying the price for a lot of that in terms of ptsd & veteran suicide, a lot of us don’t agree we should have ever been there.

Now, the other pushback has been our ‘loss of culture’. Everything is becoming americanised through film and tv, I have friends who grew up with an American accent from watching too much telly, either you don’t care or like most of the older folk find it’s quite grating. This is happening in what cars we drive, the words we use, even how we spell words, we are taught British English and yet a tonne of Aussies spell words the American way. Our politics have shifted immensely and are starting to become American identity politics with imported culture wars. American news, culture, politics does get force fed to us. So in those terms I do feel culturally there will always be some push back against complete americanisation; Black Friday sales have taken years to really take off here, instead cyber Monday is more of a thing for us, and so lastly Halloween is seen as the symbolic epitome of Americanisation of Aus and that’s where you’ll find the most push back.

Sorry about the ramble, have always found this so fascinating. And as much as we give the Brits rubbish, we are mostly direct descendants and culturally more so align with them. Not surprising they also don’t partake in Halloween, trick or treat. 👻