Foreign worship

July 15, 2011 08:22

- Frustrating! Really frustrating!

What's the matter, man?

- I don't understand why the MCs of TV game shows these days keep using Western languages ​​mixed with Vietnamese. "Hai rua" people like me don't understand what's going on. Every time they get excited, instead of exclaiming "so great" or "so cool", they shout "Ow, yeah!", sometimes even adding in many confusing words.

- Oh my god! What do you think? Don't you see everywhere people are competing to give "Western" names to "our things"? For example, hotels and supermarkets have: Diamond Plaza, Horison, Side Lake, ... High-rise buildings and urban areas have: Lotus Tower, Royan Cyti, Saigon Pearl, Hanoi Time Tower... Reading it makes my mouth tired. But clearly I'm in my "fatherland", hearing it makes me feel like I'm in the land of the Stars and Stripes or England!

- I see. Our people have a "foreign-obsession" disease. MCs are trying to follow the latest trends without paying attention to whether the audience understands the "stuff" or not? It's a serious disease that's hard to cure, we have to learn to adapt.


Duy Nam