Tuesday, February 26, 2019

BABY BOOMERS?

I don't know whether you realize this or not but there's just been another Nixon-in-China event.  The president of the United States is in Vietnam.

6 comments:

Katherine said...

My husband was in Vietnam a few years ago. He stayed at the Hanoi Hilton -- the hotel, not the prison. Everyone was very nice, and the common language is American English.

unreconstructed rebel said...

In Hanoi? I could believe that of Saigon, but Hanoi?

Katherine said...

Seriously, Rebel. He was a little concerned about the visit, and very pleasantly surprised at the atmosphere.

unreconstructed rebel said...

Interesting. When I was there in '68, Hanoi were the enemy.

Christopher Johnson said...

I guess I can see it. Vietnamese men and women who emigrated here after the war and raised families in America going back to visit relatives, their kids bringing Americanisms and American English with them. Plus, there's the Internet.

Katherine said...

Yes, Rebel, they were the enemy when my neighbor's father, a fairly high-up official in Saigon, was thrown in prison after the North Vietnamese takeover. His mother, who was not raised to work, was called upon to support the family and to feed her husband in prison, since the government didn't do that. They got out in the early 1990s and came to the US. I was privileged to meet his mother before she died several years ago, still obviously a lovely and gracious lady.