The issue with trashy westerners in Vietnam.
So a lot of people online rave about how great is to live in Vietnam. They say it’s some amazing country with cheap food, sexy women, nice people and everything is great. If you comb through YouTube videos it’s basically the same script. Vietnam is amazing, the food here is the best in the world, everything is cheap. Then queue video rolls of mediocre food, some random over priced market or some random area in the Mekong or on the central highlands with smiling locals. Smiling all the while the people traveling are looking at them like they are some kind of mascot.
This is pretty much what you get from the vast majority of white westerners who visit or live in Vietnam. But the biggest issue is way too many come to Vietnam with ill intentions or they revel in the white worship. I’ve heard some people say “it’s great being white here.” Just think about someone from the UK, US, Canada or a long list of other countries actually saying that out loud. Can you imagine the blow back and condemnation? That wouldn’t fly in the most conservative parts of Mississippi but it’s fine in Vietnam.
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The same with white westerners saying nigg*r way too many of them think that shit is okay and they’ll say it in Vietnam. Or they go on long winded right ring rants about feminism and western women. Or run up to someone and scream “black man” and start laughing in their face. This isn’t even touching on how so many of these people just look down on the locals.
Or the overall shitty behavior of white westerners in ESL. People brag about showing up high to teach at schools, go into schools and pretty much waste the entire class not teaching. Sexually harassing teen students by touching their legs or just straight up staring at their breast. Obviously, some people are actually having sex with some of these underage students but not at the level of the other types of shitty behavior. None of this shit would fly in a long list of other countries but in Vietnam so many schools will pretty much hire anyone that’s white.
Most of what you see online about life in Vietnam is posted by disrespectful, sometimes racist white westerners whose only purpose is to promote Vietnam. It doesn’t matter if they are glossing over so many other negative and positive aspects. Doesn’t matter if they are outright lying, they just wanna sell their fake version of Vietnam to you. If you take away the drugs, decent priced apartments with balconies and cheap prostitutes. 90% of all westerners would scatter like cock roaches at night in a high-rise project.
