Nouveaux riche

I saw a humvee this evening on my way home. I was quite surprised; what's a gas-guzzling hunk of crap like that doing in this country? It must cost my annual salary just to keep that thing fueled! Then I saw it pull into a Gusto (Japanese equivalent of a Denny's (although Denny's is here too)). I was once again reminded that the west has passed on much more than it's economics and fashion.

All of those gauche aspects of western "civilization" are making their way over here too. Every teen-ager wants to look like an idiot because young westerners look like idiots. Kids over here, like pop stars, with no business handling the kind of cash they do, spend it on items of instant gratification with no regard for the future. That's why you see people like this with 80,000$ cars and 3.50$ taste.

I think I'll go get a hamburger...