Quelques mois auparavant a Hanoi ouvrait le premier KFC et debut de ce mois ci, juste avant l’APEC, un second ouvrait sur la rue Ba Trieu.

APEC a peine termine, les tays a peine rentres, déclaration fracassante de Nguyen Ba Hung (deputy director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs- specializes in U.S. issues), dans un article de Than Nien qui est une traduction d’ un journal local, Than Nien traduit rarement ses confrères. Attention, 3, 2, 1 :

“It’s only food, but it can have an influence,” said Hung, the Foreign Ministry official.

“If young people get to like this American fast food, they may develop a fixation for the country that produces it. They may feel they can no longer be 100 percent Vietnamese. We don’t want that to happen.”

Hung needn’t worry about everyone in Hanoi, which served as the capital of Vietnam during the war. Here, a traditional atmosphere remains. Workers still walk the streets wearing non la, the traditional conical hats.

Preuve comme quoi… quand je disais qu’ il y avait au Vietnam une fuite des cerveaux vers le prive! Qu’en pense le Ministère des Finance?

L’article cache aussi des trésors d’ un nationalisme coco enfin retrouve :

A large and youthful population, free-market changes and a fast-growing economy have marked the former pariah state as Asia’s last significant bastion of untapped retail potential.[…]

Although primed for an even larger foreign retail invasion, Vietnam knows that the road to capitalism via the spicy chicken sandwich is fraught with peril: The nation is among those with the most cases of avian flu, which has killed dozens of people.

Source: KFC makes good debut in Hanoi