Viet Ham

Woodinville, WA, March 28th /Vietham.com/ — Today, VietHam.com, a US-based thinktank focused on cultural parity issues for Vietnamese Men, saw the confirmation of an emerging global interest in Vietnamese men with Angelina Jolie’s latest adoption of a 3-year old Vietnamese boy, Pax Thien Jolie. Miss Jolie is an award-winning actress and sex symbol to humans throughout the world.

But Pax Thien is merely a Vietnamese boy, what does this have to do with Vietnamese men? In a mere decade, Pax will already be in the pubescent bloom that produces some of the signature Viet male physical traits: dark, languishing eyes, tempestuously flaring nostrils, and regal cheekbones.

“Viet Ham appreciates Miss Jolie’s long-term valuation of Vietnamese men–no doubt she is prescient in her confidence that little Pax will eventually outrival her own “hotness” and in turn generate a lot of interest in Vietnamese men down the road,” said Malaise, founder of VietHam.com.

About VietHam.com
VietHam.com, first established as a personal blog on Blogspot (later acquisition by Google), is a US-based cultural thinktank focused on improving the traditional and changing image of the Vietnamese man, and believes that there isn’t enough publicity or awareness about Vietnamese men in US popular culture, politics, and business. VietHam.com revolutionizes the stereotypical Vietnamese male cultural presence by aggregating stories (’evidential ham’), both literal and figurative, that showcase Vietnamese men in all their beauty, eloquence, and understated finery.

VietHam.com is headquartered out of Woodinville, Washington. For more information, visit: http://www.vietham.com.

In highschool, Duc was an asexual leprechaun who guarded his pot of girlies with a zealous disregard for fraternity. Then it happened. The excess of E in his environment accelerated his sexual maturation with ruthless abandon. He turned his perverted eye to his own pot and decimated the huddled, frightened females with endless waves of demonic debauchery.

There are many stories that could be told about my recent trip to South Korea, but there is one that should be told amidst the steel and flesh of a bustling nation.

I got off the last KTX train coming from Gumi, an inland industrial city roughly 3 hours south of Seoul. It was close to mignight. Most of the luxury name shops had long shuttered their windows and lights, yet the train station in Cheonan was just starting its night shift as a shelter for the entrepreneurial homeless. These folks jockeyed for position, some for room to sleep, others to promote their personal brand of misery and helplessness.

Still an hour from my hotel room in Seoul, I quickly navigated through and over people in the station. I had not waited more than a minute outside when a black taxi pulled up to the curb. A Korean man in his mid forties leaned across his passenger seat and unleashed a torrent of his native tongue. The absence of my immediate response didn’t confuse him, but rather effected a transition in his manner and face, like gearshifter sliding into a familiar gear.

“Where?” he asked me.

“Seoul…..Grand. Inter. Con. Tinental Hotel,” I responded in a slow, deliberate manner.

We seemed to reach an agreement. He motioned me in, and I gratefully got into the rearseat. I looked around the cabin and dashboard and found comfort in all the familiar knobs and dials. Below the taxi meter, there was a framed ID photo of the driver and his license details. The pale young man in the photo held a stern look that seemed intended to mask his youth. I snuck a look the driver and found that same stern look now congealed in dark, leathery skin. I spent the rest of the taxi ride contemplating how his life must have been for the past twenty years. This bothered me a great deal that a person had spent the last two decades of his life picking up people, dropping them off, and waiting in traffic.

That night, I reassured myself that my taxi driver must have passed up chances in his life, missed certain turns that could have significantly changed things for him. It turned out to be solace for one night. By the end of my trip, every taxi driver and photo ID I noticed told the same story.