Posted by sigismund on November 24, 2010, at 14:39:13
In reply to Re: NEW poll of the day » Free, posted by sigismund on November 24, 2010, at 4:26:35
When I was in Kyoto I was struck by how beautiful the young Japanese men were. They spent so much money on their haircuts. I'd never seen anything like these haircuts. Long hair, sort of, just lovely. And they had these crazy shoes. Black high boots with silver buckles that wrapped around the ankle.
It's one of the reasons to travel to Asia......the people are so friendly. In Vietnam I could go to a cafe with a beautiful view and read Cormac McCarthy for an hour or two while drinking my Vietnamese rum. Then I would walk home. If I felt like it I would walk past a shop and there would be some lovely looking Vietnamese man. He would ask where I came from. I could count on a 90 minute conversation about the American War, the French War, the communist victory, life under communism, the ethics involved in dealing with a defeated enemy, what the takeover was like, corruption, was it all worth it, the roots of genocide.
Imagine a Vietnamese person hanging around a shop in our countries (mine anyway) hoping for a conversation with a local in Vietnamese about our politics for 90 minutes!
The Vietnamese people are generally so beautiful.
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