In the Korea Times, Simon Phillips talks to a Mongolian migrant worker who just happened to have been a sports writer for Mongolia’s English-language UB Post.
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This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on June 19, 2007 at 11:27 pm, filed under Asides, East and Central Asia, Ministry of Barbarian Affairs, Mongolia, South Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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Interesting. And funny.
Is this guy a native speaker? Is he in the same century as we are?
“They are strong and intelligent looking men who have a purity of conscience.”
And I have heard stories about adventures in the “Wild West” of the red-hot Mongolian economy that make this sound like a crock:
“Coming from a nomadic culture they have none of the trappings of capitalist development and it shows in the honesty and goodwill, which they extend to me.”
And the dichotomy between capitalism and honesty/goodwill is pretty questionable too. Can only Communists be honest?
“One of the group was a nomad in Mongolia, he has the typical look of a man educated by the land; considered backward by city folk. He is staring at a clay figure of a horse, which his friend, a boxer, made by hand. It has the perfect likeness to a real horse. His gaze gives nothing away, in his mind he is on the plains of Mongolia.”