Hoang Thuy Linh’s “Mistake”
The difference between America and Vietnam is summarized by the public reaction to Hoang Thuy Linh and Paris Hilton’s sex tapes. While Paris’s film shot the young American heiress to instant celebrity and cemented her hold on the American public, Hoang Thuy Linh’s television show was canceled. She gave an apology on national TV for violating her good-girl image:
“I made a mistake, a terrible mistake. I apologize to you, my parents, my teachers and my friends.”
An Associated Press article Vietnam Is Having Paris Hilton Moment quotes a few interesting Vietnamese on the issue:
- “A good girl must keep herself clean until she is married,” Khanh said. “Thuy Linh should be condemned.”
- charges of “spreading depraved cultural items”
- “People will forgive him, but not her”
- “it’s OK for a boy to have sex at that age, but not for a girl”
- the episode underscored the “dark side of globalization” and warned that a flood of foreign influences “threaten Vietnam’s cultural foundation.”
In the 21st century, like all previous centuries, the morality police and gender double-standards live on. How long is it going to be before global morality becomes fully modernized?
Viagra China Ad
For some reason, Phizer decided to run this Viagra advertisement in China, emphasizing vitality:
I feel sorry for the child that’s produced by these Viagra-powered sperm, because the female-genome of that poor egg looks like it’s being completely pummeled. The ad is almost like Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, that hilarious thought-experiment of a Superman-Lana union.
White people are Asian
I found this question and answer on Ancestry By DNA’s website interesting:
I thought I was purely of Scandinavian origin, but my results show minor East Asian admixture. How is this result possible?
In our testing we’ve observed a number of samples from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe that exhibit some East Asian admixture. This is probably due to past migrations and is possibly telling us something about the interaction of various groups in those regions. In addition, cultures from these areas traveled to region of Asia and it does not seem unreasonable that children may have been produced from some of these travels introducing new genetic markers into the Scandinavian population.
Ancestry by DNA is a strange little company which will tell you, based on your DNA, what your “race” actually is. Or rather, what geography your people are from.