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Don_DickleM to Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish · 1 year ago

ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

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ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

Don_DickleM to Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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    ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

    I don’t understand that sentence.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_wives'_tale

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        ELI5 How come it seems now the old [wives’] tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

        That’s still a rather incomprehensible sentence.

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          Rephrased to it’s intended meaning, that would be:

          ELI5 how come it seems now [that] the old [wives’] tale about Vietnamese people eating pets [is now being applied to] immigrants into the USA?

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      This is funny as the Vietnamese joke about Chinese this way, they have a saying that translates as, ‘the only thing they don’t eat with 4 legs is a table’

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        Even chairs?

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      Maybe OP is from some place with a high Vietnamese population so there were rumors about this? TX, LA, or CA maybe.

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