Halloween spirit in Berlin -- not particularly distinguishable :(

I know this is a blog about traveling.
But traveling, in a basic sense, includes every "journey" taken by only leaving your house. So Berlin becomes a place for great travel opportunities too. Since even if you live here, the city is just too big for you to discover all its sights and wonders in a lifetime.Hence my "travel" experience includes events and ongoings in my hometown as well.

Berlin is a global and cosmopolitan city. It shows to have been influenced from all over the world: on every other corner we have a kebap distributor or a Chinese-Japanese-Vietnamese-Thai restaurant. But what is recognizable above all is the prevalence of US American stores, food chains, even English speakers.
What disturbs me then is that you can perfectly well blend in when wearing head adornments like this:
(elf ears, flowers on your cheeks, I even wore orange-striped tights and bright green shorts with purple boots to tick off all colors) ... however, a slightly strange apparel on this day today (on which I wasn't the only halloweeny person) is seemingly as easily absorbed into Berlin's international image of culture as are the ever-present golden arches or iPhones...all of which presents from the good United States of America to us mere mortals in the rest of the world, some more loved than others. For me especially, I'm not so much for the consumer culture part (although still a compelled part of it in a global society), but what interests me more in such a city as Berlin (of which negative critics would say is a great example for having been successfully "americanized") is the factor that still relates to the culture of America, today namely: Halloween and dressing up.

I find it sad that you put some effort into promoting Halloween spirit in such a city whose youth grows up with American cultural images and then be greeted by those exact same youths' faces full of ignorance of American culture alive (namely: me) dancing in front of their eyes and who only recognize a slight difference in you when they're close up ("in your face" so to speak). I guess to actually stand out and be recognizable as the elf I intended to project I might have had to don some wings and a full mini-skirt costume.

For the 3 people today that have recognized something different in my appearance, I provided them with the treat-y part of American children's candy quests on All Hallows' Evening, for the other, maybe the trick-y part will be to still wonder "Wasn't there something odd?"

Attention-seeking or not out of the question, my Halloween-experiment failed to the point that I will have to eat my bag of candy alone.."oh well!" ;)
For all those who still celebrate American traditions and not just American products,
Happy Halloween!

P.S. "What's this?"  =D