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Re: making love language (Vietnamese or English?)
>The wait staff at those restaurants are not exactly stupid.
Perhaps not "stupid" but arrogant or ethnocentric enough to assume that no
"Caucasian" could possibly enjoy authentic preparation of Asian cuisine
(this is not a phenomenon limited to Vietnamese resturants) even if the
person (or person's friend) can place the order fluently in the relevant
language. Another example of people forgetting that no matter how valid
some generalizations at some level, even the most accurate often don't
apply to particular individuals.
Not all "Caucasians" believe, act, think, etc. alike any more than do all
Vietnamese or Vietnamese-Americans or any other group of humans and
stereotyping, taunting, or assuming the worst of motivations for what is
said, are no less edifying because spoken by someone of Vietmanese
ancestry. To quote Paulo Freire, it is the duty of the oppressed to
educate their oppressors if that is the point Kieu-Anh is trying to make.
>> And so I'll get nu'o'c ma^m instead of soy =
>> sauce. =20
>Go to the mirror, look at yourself, and say aloud: "fish
>sauce, fish sauce, fish sauce."
This is just petty.
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