Anyone seen this yet?

This article has created a huge reaction among the Vietnamese abroad lately. Even the English version of Vietnamese newspapers here mentioned it, but as far as I know, the Vietnamese versions have not mentioned it.

The author has been caught by surprise and apologized.


He is right in the eating wild animals, but is wrong in linking it to his perception of the Vietnamese being aggressive.

If you look at the stats, the Vietnamese consumes meat far less than other countries. I will try to find the stats, if I still can.

I agree Anatta, i think he got carried away a bit. Didn't realize he has apologized.

Did he really apologize? my friend just sent me this? http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/02/13 … al-column/

Ashard Deen wrote:

Didn't realize he has apologized.

Well, sorta
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog/kyle- … -vs-impact

Here is the only mentioning in Vietnam I am aware of: in the English edition.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/pages … -good.aspx

As I mentioned earlier, the Vietnamese community in the US is enraged.

Here's another link:

http://tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenew … ve-1.98176

Budman1 wrote:

Here's another link:

http://tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenew … ve-1.98176

Ahh, that was probably the article I had in mind when I was mentioning that he apologized. Got mixed up after having read too many articles. Still not sure whether he has or has not really apologized though, after his many explanations.

I heard he got most of the information for his article from a guy riding a pink bike down in Can Tho.

Budman1 wrote:

I heard he got most of the information for his article from a guy riding a pink bike down in Can Tho.

and we all know how accurate that guy is, don't we !!

Anyway, here is the official stats about daily food consumption in Vietnam

http://viendinhduong.vn/FileUpload/Docu … 9-2010.PDF

84g meat, 74 g protein and 1925 kcal per capita vs. about 330 g meat/capita in the US
http://chartsbin.com/view/bhy

Joel Brinkley was Anatta's mentor and Budman's protege. 

Poor guy!  He is never going to know his a** from a hole in the ground...

he didn't apologise at all, and he wasn't in Can Tho either --- but just as a humourous follow up,... I found this little tongue in cheek journalistic fable telling, about the projected post Stanford University career of that masterful travel writer Sir Joel Brinkley ~ http://oivietnam.com/2013/02/newest-cha … n-vietnam/

"...he wasn't in Can Tho either..."

That was right. Joel Brinkley just saw our guy from Can Tho in Saigon, sitting on on a pink bike wearing his bike pant, ate his curry made allegedly from goat meat. The view was so shockingly disturbing that it caused the above-mentioned article.

zwetschgen: In case what I just wrote does not make sense to you. Sorry, it was an inside joke we have had running around in this forum for some time