He would also need to show that the commie rats running Nam actually obey all that fancy 1st Amendment stuff they put in their constitution. And that they give a damn about their running dog ethnic citizens in Chinatown.
Seriously, it’s a foolproof method of getting rid of the less intelligent staff when you need to cut headcount. Weeding out people who read horoscopes in the West would do it, too.
Fair enough Monty. Please show that Feng Shui is a belief or religion recognised in Vietnam, or cite Vietnamese definitions or cases that back the assertion.
If I taught, say, Chemistry in Vietnam, and I firmly believed in phlogiston, why couldn’t I be dismissed for idiocy?
Monty, I don’t want to contribute to this hijack much longer, but the point, which you may overlooked, is that it never happened. Regardless of where the feng-shui firings are asserted to have taken place, Hemlock’s journal is an example (however poor) of an obscure practice, known primarily to those inscrutable orientals, but catching on even in the West, as Hu mor.
Practitioners of Hu mor believe that they can manipulate esoteric energies in the human body to induce Laf Ta, a psychic phenomenon which helps to purge the body of stress and other poisons, by describing or otherwise representing situations that are grotesquely out-of-line with what we would expect to experience on the physical plane.
The practice of Hu Mor, like most other cult activity, is rigourously supressed by the totalitarian Chinese government, which may explain Hemlock’s ex-pat status.
Like the anecdote above, the many entries in Hemlock’s journal detailing his dog-poisoning adventures may not, in fact, actually be true.
Hemlock your site is brilliant! Thanks so much for the link.
“Satire is not funny to Asians and anyway this hardly counts as satire.”
Like hell it aint!
Monty, it may appear to some readers that Vietnam has been singled out as having some strange constitutional protection for odd religions.
IIRC, The provisions that you refer to in Vietnam’s Constitution reflect Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Australia’s legal system also recognises that article, but through its Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act rather than its Constitution. Many other countries respect Article 18.
Perhaps even the USA has some sort of freedom of religion thing.
In which case, my rhetorical question should have read:
If I taught, sat, biology in Oklahoma or Kansas, and I firmly believed in evolution, why couldn’t I be dismissed for idiocy?
Dummy? That’s a bit uncalled for. I mean the OP’s question was what, ten words long? I thought it was a little unclear, excuse me for not thinking along the same lines as you do. No wait, I don’t excuse myself, because why would I want to be a snap-judgemental fool.
<Monty pulls head out and hears>
::Whooooooooooshhhhhhhh::
Monty: What’s that? Didn’t realize we were so close to the airport. Still, I don’t see any planes.
Neighbour <who doesn’t have to bother looking around>: We’re not. That’s the sound you hear when you do what I just saw you do.
Monty: What’s that.
Neighbour: Pulling your head out.
'Nuff of that silliness, although I really did get Tai Laff from Larry’s explanation. I don’t mind being the butt of a good joke.
Anyway, this seems to be a fun, and even relevant hijack, so here goes:
Hemlock: the commie scum running the country certainly can’t be bothered with obeying the constitution or any of the laws they pass themselves; however, they certainly demand foreign corporations and personnel to obey them plus a few other spur-of-the-moment requirements to boot.
Desmo: You can’t be dismissed for idiocy for teaching Science as Science. Even in Oklahoma and Toto-ville.