[IWE] Your thesis is defective

[Ashton Brown]

{Chortle}  Hoist by own pet... (rale soul?)

Guess I was naively presuming the 'Gung-ho-Immigrant' effect: 
immediately adopt, flagrantly,  every folkway - particularly the silliest.
Yes, did realize that - somewhere in LA area, they wouldn't even be 
leaving home -- but would most of that 7000 realize this??
(Hell yes; 5 secs after landing.  D'Oh.)

Didn't know.. about Vietnam striking terror into catfishers' hearts.  
Will there be anything left for downsized Muricans to do, in ~2011?
And so it goes: homogenization gets an exponential boost from the myth 
of "free trade".

(But will the Ho Chi Minh City teens soon be wearing those ugly Murican 
pants? Too?)
Gumbo in Cam Ranh?
.
Spaghett-Os ?
.
Viet babies named Kyle???



..desperately paging Kurt Vonnegut


Andrew Grygus wrote:

>>.. those Last Days at the US Embassy in Saigon / with 
>>helicopters) ... these 7000 of the Few, the Mobile and the Chosen:
>>--> get to become Consumers amongst us'ns!
>>Imagine the fun -- recalibrating their digestive tracts for fizzy sodas, 
>>corn in everything from the fake-sugar to the Franken-beef to the gas 
>>tanks; 
>>    
>>
> <>
> Recalibrate their digestive tracts?
>
> To quote (from memory) a Vietnamese refugee
> somewhere in the U.S. Midwest or South (I forget which),
> "We are very thankful for the U.S. Government to place us
> here so we can start new lives in America - but as soon as
> no one's looking we all move to Los Angeles"
> There is no need for recalibration, or corn anything or
> Franken-beef here. With hundreds of Vietnamese
> restaurants and dozens of Vietnamese supermarkets
> you can eat as Vietnamese here as you ever could in
> Saigon.


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