Posts Tagged ‘costume’
OTP’s Guide to Halloween in Asia 2010
Last year, OTP gave you the low down on how South Americans decorate skulls, sleep with the dead and wear yellow panties on their versions of Halloween. This year, it’s all about pumpkin over rice, as we focus on how Asia gets sugar high for the big, spooky day. While all of these cultures have autumn [...]
5 Obscure TV Shows from Around the World
If you have ever flipped through the Spanish channel to see balloon-breasted women dancing the Meringue for no apparent reason, you know that people around the world are entertained by wildly different things. A country’s popular television show is a unique (but limited) glimpse into the culture of its viewership. Mexico’s got a creepy political [...]
Obsession with the Devil: How Latin America Celebrates Death
If any of you missed Halloween this year, let us break down what likely happened: the girls walked around in no more than a bra and panties and pretended they were cops, sailors, nurses or some sort of pre-packaged ho-in-a-bag (maybe the origin of the expression “ho-bag”). Now the guys, well they thought they were [...]
