“Be Colonized”
March 14th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
There is English fever here in Vietnam and I’ve been really amazed as to how the quality of English speaking has changed so much from 2005 until now. As part of the English craze, there’s a lot of clothing here with English on it. You see English words on people clothes, with all your recognizeable brands, presumably fake: Gucci, Prada, Calvin Klein, etc. Sometimes you also see a lot of jibberish on shirts too, words that just look like someone slammed their fist on a computer keyboard. This shirt, however, is truly exceptional. At first, it made me laugh outloud in surprise. However, the more I think about it, it’s rather depressing.
While walking in district 1 in Ho Chi Minh City, we saw a street food vendor with this on the back of her hoodie:
