Last train home

Between Vietnam and China, around this week, close to 1 Billion people get on trains, planes and automobiles, trying to go home on the country side. Catchy label for them would be ” Confucian Consumers”. They will be scrambling on any transport, whether they are black or white (to para-phase Deng’s dictum), as long as it gets them home. Home to the green fields, flat earth, and the traditional order (but they would be wearing Nike and carrying fake I phone).

KFC does a little better in China, where old mores still rule, at  least on Chinese New Year (whose parade this month in San Francisco is the largest of its kind outside of Mainland).

Neighboring Cambodia observed its New Year a few months back, this time, no major stampede has been reported.

Chinese cities will look eerily empty.

Conversely, grave yards get more visitors (Mothers Day, Fathers Day all…