11 Things NOT to do in Vietnam - Travel Tips and Guides 

What part do you think it’s extra? Im Vietnamese too and I know the things I mentioned are real deals. The time we accept whatever foreigners do for being called friendly has gone. Like other Asian countries, we should raise our identity and get them respect our cultures.

​@@JoyceX That is actually what i'm trying to tell people, especially young people. A lot of us just overrate the western culture and forgot where are we came from. That's sad and also a shame. I can't blame people for not interesting in our own stuffs, but we need to do something about that, seriously. Being modernized doesn't mean erase our own culture to replace it with something from the other culture. I don't want to compare us with the Korean/Japanese, but yeah, those 2 did a great job of keeping and developing their own cultures, which is the most important way to advertise their country's identity. Vietnamese are not just a bunch of people who only know how to "free style living".

I'm not sure about that man, do you really happy when some foreigner tell you "hey, Vietnamese girl are good!" "hey, Vietnam is cheap" "hey, life in Vietnam is a chaos"... that sounds like they are mocking us more than praise. I'm living in D7, working here and when you are close enough to them, they'll tell you what they really thought about Vietnam/Vietnamese, it's not like what you see on the screen, believe me, those words make me feel so up set, for years. There's a guy who worked with me in a project 3 years ago that told me a story of him moving to Vietnam, first time he know about Vietnam was about war (of course Vietnam war) through a project in a game's outsource company, then he have an interesting to learn more about it, which is the first step for him to dig deeper in history, culture stuff. After that project, he try to apply himself into another one which should be in Vietnam, that's Glass Egg company in HCMC (work for Titan Fall II project if you wonder). after a year living here and working, he just realized that Vietnamese are not doing what he'd read about our cultures while he still in the US, that's a big disappointed in his mind. I'm a traditional man, i choose to learn which is good in western culture, but also keep our culture in my blood. Nobody gonna respect you if you don't even show respect to your own root. Btw, do not expect to have a good grammar in my comments, my English is a self taught, i never had/went to any English class/center before.

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You mean in big cities people don’t need to hand things to the older in a polite way? It’s not a sign of being open-minded, it’s a polite gesture of Vietnamese towards the older. Every Vietnamese is taught about it from kindergarten. I’ve lived in big city Saigon too and I know educated people don’t change this gesture no matter where they are.

@@JoyceX Ive lived in sg, hn and danang as well, an Im talking bout ppl who are in their 40s to 60s, they're quite open and easy in manners as much as Ive seen myself. Handling things over using one hand is alright. Two does not making any difference to them either.

Nah, i'm still offer a polite way. It's better to keep the culture instead of digging a graves on it, just look around, most of the developed countries in Asia, they are developed but still show respect to their own culture, keep them like a treasure. It's beautiful in my perspective. For a lot of times i tried to tell people, modernized doesn't mean treating your own culture like trash, throw it away and replace it with the whole pack of foreign culture, it's disrespectful and also a shame. Just like that, it's also the way western/another Asian people see us, they'r gonna judge the whole community while the people in our community don't even know how to show respect to our own stuffs, and that's a shame, it's really really bad.

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