Kidney Thieves Urban Legend :: Urban Legends

Losing Organs at a Party The Kidney Thieves Legend and the Immigrant ExperienceMy family, near being first generation immigrants, has at times a meagerly negative view of American culture. Because of this, many of the family dinner conversations be round the differences between American and Iranian cultures and often how the Iranian culture is wagerer in some ways. To support this theory many urban legends are brought up that show the dark side of the American culture. For example, when the family was gathered together for the Iranian new year, a version of the famous legend nearly the traveler who was drugged and robbed of his organs in a hotel room was told by a family member. It is important to note that he told the bilgewater in Farsi, which federal agency that I am translating and not merely re- utter the story verbatim.The storytellers version of the story was about an Iranian foreign exchange bookman who had recently add to the US. The story begins with the student, being alone in this country, going to a fellowship he had heard of from other students. In the party, having had a few drinks, other American thing my family is against, he met a beautiful innocent little girl who offered him a drink and asked to go to his place at the end of the night. The shadowiness with which he described the girl was specially interesting, noting that even the innocent look girls cannot be trusted. The story goes that the Iranian student did not remember anything from that auspicate on until he woke up the next day in his bath covered with ice. There was also a note next to him telling him not to move and call 911. When the ambulance arrived at his apartment he was told that his kidney was removed(p) and that he was not the first person this has happened to. To add to the accuracy and irresolution of the story, the storyteller, a physician, mentioned how the ice was used to keep the students luggage compartment cold to prevent excessive blood loss and inflammation, which was essentially what unploughed him alive. After being discharged from the hospital for a few weeks with a missing kidney, a big hospital bill, and having fallen behind his studies, the student found out that there is an organized ring of organ thieves who condition in lonely foreign students, who are as the storyteller sees it, more(prenominal) susceptible to being seduced by girls.