White Man's Burden

Once upon a time, my brother gave Mother a book as a present. And now he's asking for it back, because she never reads it anyway and he'd like to. My mother, behaving in an equally classy manner, cannot locate the book, recall what it looked like, or even repeat the title. She's never even read the whole cover.

 
 


























Oh, the picture. A ripoff of the well-established Darlie brand toothpaste, long-popular all over Asia. White men or dark men, the toothpastes are used by Taiwanese folks like me.