Saturday, October 18, 2008

Globalism Strikes Back

Globalism has its ups and downs, but no other economic system produces such hilarious results.

Many Ecuadorians lend credibility to their businesses by associating themselves with anything popular. For example, on a single street in Quito I saw the Scooby Doo Hot Doggery Snack Shop and the Homer Simpson Bar. Sometimes this goes to extremes, like the Stephen Hawkings Pre-Universary Tudoring Center.


But it gets even better.

Quito is the capital of Eucador and therefore all of the major parties have headquarters there. The Communist Party of Ecuador is no exception and it looks pretty much like you would expect a third-world Communist Party building to look like. It is a sickly green color and has giant banners hanging off of it. Except in Ecuador it´s the Communist Party/Chinese Restaurant.


1 comment:

ARH Robinson said...

These posts are excellent---please keep them coming!