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Explain Like I'm Five

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Kalcifer 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

ELI5 How come it seems now the old [wives'] tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

That's still a rather incomprehensible sentence.

[–] FeatherConstrictor 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Rephrased to it's intended meaning, that would be:

ELI5 how come it seems now [that] the old [wives'] tale about Vietnamese people eating pets [is now being applied to] immigrants into the USA?