Comments on: 2008- Santa’s year… http://kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net/2007/12/14/2008-santas-year/ neweurasia\\\'s Kyrgyzstan blog Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:46:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Ataman Rakin http://kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net/2007/12/14/2008-santas-year/#comment-29546 Ataman Rakin Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:06:03 +0000 http://kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net/2007/12/14/2008-santas-year/#comment-29546 "Santa will become a part of Kyrgyz cultural and spiritual heritage. I wonder what will be next step of Santa mania in Kyrgyzstan…" :)))) Manmanman. 'Spiritual'. Are they really so desperate and outlandish that they need to play the clown to that extent?! That reminds me a bloke from the city administration of Sülükta who I met when I worked in the south of Kyr in 2001, the 'Year of Tourism'. He was convinced that opening beauty salons in Sülükta (a dreary, run down coals mining town) would put his town on the world tourist map and seemed very confused when I burst into laughther. Now that we're at it, why not turn Kyrgyzstan wholesale into a theme park where Chinese tourists can come and toss nuts and coins at the natives... Come on Kyrgyz: where's your pride? “Santa will become a part of Kyrgyz cultural and spiritual heritage. I wonder what will be next step of Santa mania in Kyrgyzstan…”

:)))) Manmanman. ‘Spiritual’. Are they really so desperate and outlandish that they need to play the clown to that extent?!

That reminds me a bloke from the city administration of Sülükta who I met when I worked in the south of Kyr in 2001, the ‘Year of Tourism’. He was convinced that opening beauty salons in Sülükta (a dreary, run down coals mining town) would put his town on the world tourist map and seemed very confused when I burst into laughther.

Now that we’re at it, why not turn Kyrgyzstan wholesale into a theme park where Chinese tourists can come and toss nuts and coins at the natives… Come on Kyrgyz: where’s your pride?

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