Comment by rdtsc

> The more I investigate, the more I recognize that kudzu’s place in the popular imagination reveals as much about the power of American mythmaking, and the distorted way we see the natural world, as it does about the vine’s threat to the countryside.

When I was fifteen I came to US. We were driving around in the South and I remember being so fascinated by the Kudzu. I was saying how beautiful it is. The Americans told me what it is and how it spreads uncontrollably and how it is a not something beautiful but something horrible like a disease. Every time I see it now, I remember that conversation and how quickly my perception shifted due to it.