Angry birds

One thing that amazes me about the developing world is the dominance of certain kinds of American culture. Clothing styles among the young people in particular often has English writing or US referenced graphics,

At each site that I visit is a mob of youngsters trying to sell books, postcards, and all sorts of trinkets for one dollar.

I do not purchase anything because a pamphlet in my hotel spoke about these kids as being on the fringes of a human trafficking network at worse and exploited at best.

One of the kids was wearing an Angry Birds tee-shirt. Since I happened to have my iPad out taking pictures, I flipped to the Angry Birds app and went through a few levels with her looking on.

She obviously had little knowledge of what was happening with the game. She kept saying " angry birds" over and over again as my great aim smashed those pigs to smithereens.

So much for being a cultural ambassador for the United States.