Two things I learned yesterday

1. Changing bathtubs can be fairly traumatic for a little kid. Our little one has clearly outgrown her tub, so yesterday we replaced it with a larger tub. She stood in the water and refused to sit down. Then she howled at the top of her lungs for several minutes. I thought it would be freeing to have more space and more water. But somehow this was upsetting.

2. The Korean word for an American is "mi guk". American soldiers travling to Vietnam during the war would often be transported through Korea. They heard the term for Americans and thought the Koreans were saying "Me, Gook." Thus from American ear was born the racial slur for Vietnamese people. Since all Asians look alike. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a stupid racial slur has a stupid origin.