Soup: The American Tourist and Mexican Fisherman
An American tourist was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The tourist complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The…
Can we talk for a moment about how this is a weird and somewhat pathetic rip off of Heinrich Böll’s famous short story; Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral?
The internet does many great things - facillitating unbridled cultural appropriation is not one of them. In this case the appropriation takes the form of literally taking a classic piece of post-war German literature, translating it, dumbing it down, repackaging it for its new audience (Americans) and slapping a new title above it. Oh and then throwing some indistinct double racism in there for good measure.
The real kicker is the ‘Author Unknown’ tag at the bottom.
