A minor post here. I'm traveling through the southern part of California, not too far from Indio, but, alas, I am raamenless. Lots of vegetarian food, especially Mexican with its bean burritos, but not a lot of Chinese-inspired noodle-based dishes. In fact, the Japanese place across the street has neither raamen nor udon nor any other noodly food. Hmmm. Maybe I have to get closer to LA, before I can find any. This is odd considering the number of Chinese workers who helped build the railroad that clatters past my sleeping arrangements.
It's not the trains that are loud, it's gas-guzzling cars running over the tracks. Then the tracks clank, click, rattle and roll. And I have yet to see a train; I've heard lots of train whistles bleating everytime they get to an intersection, but I have yet to see an actual moving train. You'd think the descendents of the workers who helped build this railroad would've stuck around long enough to build a raamen empire in the Inland Empire for the Empire Builder (name of a train). Come to think of it, this railroad was built by illegal aliens - immigrants - so maybe they split for the coast as soon as they were finished building our infrastructure.
A little historical exploitation:
Chinese workers on strike at the Donner Pass. (and US labor management.)
The Promise of Gold Mountain: Chinese workers in Tuscon, Arizona.
A little modern exploitation:
Chinese Workers Pay for Wal-Mart.
Chinese Workers in Iraq (and the US government's response to them.)
It's not the trains that are loud, it's gas-guzzling cars running over the tracks. Then the tracks clank, click, rattle and roll. And I have yet to see a train; I've heard lots of train whistles bleating everytime they get to an intersection, but I have yet to see an actual moving train. You'd think the descendents of the workers who helped build this railroad would've stuck around long enough to build a raamen empire in the Inland Empire for the Empire Builder (name of a train). Come to think of it, this railroad was built by illegal aliens - immigrants - so maybe they split for the coast as soon as they were finished building our infrastructure.
A little historical exploitation:
Chinese workers on strike at the Donner Pass. (and US labor management.)
The Promise of Gold Mountain: Chinese workers in Tuscon, Arizona.
A little modern exploitation:
Chinese Workers Pay for Wal-Mart.
Chinese Workers in Iraq (and the US government's response to them.)
Keep Immigrants Coming!
They Built this Country on Raamen!
