I was checking my awstats (which is the software i use to see how many people visits my blog and what search words they use), and several visitors looked for “how to let a vietnamese know you are unhappy with the deal”.

So i thought, well, let’s see what we can do for that! Cause google is talking to you when you’re a webmaster… I have also an search engine optimization blog if you want to learn how to put your website on google for some nice keywords search terms, also i have an SEO guide but that’s not the point.

So how do we let a vietnamese know we’re upset?

1/ laugh, joke at him, tell them all the crap you think about them in your own language in a relax way, they don’t understand english french whatever even if they fake they do know it. It helps you to release that stress they keep sending you.

2/ Never smile. When you’re unhappy do not smile or show affections to those people cause they don’t show any to you. I mean in the whole world it works like that but it’s more emphacized here in Vietnam, here in Vietnam, they don’t care what you think, they just care of your money.

3/ Don’t blink, it disturbs them very much, i’ve noticed that. (don’t even ask me how did i figured that out…)

4/ Just tell them they are assholes and they’re meant to die alone, then go away and usually they’ll come back to you to make a better deal with you.

So i have been thinking what the vietnamese are good at or what they could have invented, thus providing the world with new things and ideas… So i think that the vietnamese people really knows how to take care of themselves, they eat healthy food, they are simple people and they seem to have a huge feeling factor, because when we see them all the time, we think “OH my gosh! they are all frustrated or what?”… But in fact it proves how much they care about others… They are scared of doing wrong things. I believe Vietnam is going to become a really great nation when mankind will start to educate itself, and i talk for the whole world.

It’s pretty hard, there is some people of the family of my sister in law (her and my brother are travelling the world by the time I talk, and will be back by the end of July)… So the family squat the house (they don’t say hello, they don’t say sorry, they don’t say thank you) and it’s really fun! We’re all like friends!

Can I Blame Them for what they are not?

I Do Not Know…. I would like to know if i can blame them for what they are not… When i think of them they do all the sins of the world and they have no principles whatsoever, they’re ready to sell their mother for a few bucks… but also when i think of them that way… the whole Vietnam isn’t rotten, i can’t imagine i live in a rotten country, why would i live here then!

It is such a complicated issue, cause there are too many variables that we have to take in account or remember each time we get into conflicts with vietnamese (culturally speaking).

What are the Qualities of the Viets?

Hum…. Hum…. Hum… I’m not sure what would be qualities… i would say that… well, i do not know. They must have qualities somewhere, may be you can post a comment and tell me about what’s good about them…

Lol, what i’m going to show you is what i hear in the morning and in the evening all the time… I live with a member of my family here and he is married to a vietnamese lady for about 2 years now. So he got some members of his family in law at home, same as i am in his home.

Check out also that video, you will see that at some point they sing LOUDER, Way LOUDER.

So, they are really different from me. They wake up at 7.30am and starts singing karaoke, then they love to watch TV very loud, so loud that it blows their ears away. When the ladies shave their leg’s hairs or so they use a product that stinks so much you would puke the very first time you smell it…

They eat food but i still don’t know what the hell do they eat, they eat noodles-water-vegetables and that’s all, i never saw them enjoy a burger or/and they are not used to fat food, or western kind of food. That’s culture! At least they remain slim… They’re not fat… Yet their food is damn weird, i would die within a week if i ate only that!

Vietnamese people can sing 5 hours in a row. They can sing till 2am in the morning or even all the night, when they sing they are in trance, they don’t realize that they are singing, it’s like taking crack or ecstasy…

In a World of Carebear

Vietnam is a world full of carebears, where nobody cares about the condition of the other carebear, they only care about being happy, they care about singing, about having fun, about enjoying, just like anywhere else in the world…. But Vietnam… Remains… the best carebear plateform ever upon the surface of the earth…

If you love easy life, then come here

Wherever you live, you have an idea of the people we are living with. In France i would say they are hypocrites cartesian skeptic and immature people. That is hard but i can say whatever i want cause i am french and free (Double F).

But about the vietnamese it’s different, i will not say it’s better. Sometimes it’s worst than in France but sometimes better so let’s highlight the “good” and “bad” behavior.

Before i Start

We’re not perfect, and that is a fact. I’m not perfect, nobody’s perfect. So whenever we talk (about anything!) we are wrong because we’re not perfect (that is a fact). Perfect means you’re all, you know all and do all kind of things.

But let’s see humanity as a whole where human beings are not perfect, but if you take all the people of this planet and make 1 person with all the spirit, mind, experiences and souls of all those people. Well the guy that came out of that would still not be perfect in my opinion!

Yet, it’s by learning from our mistakes and observing the other people that we know where we are not good at.

And also it’s when we see the truth even if it is ugly awful that we evolve in some higher spiritual places. Life is a spiritual thing and i will always think that, but that’s another subject which i will not go into now.

So about the vietnamese people Hum Hum Hum

To understand the vietnamese people. You’ve to understand where they come from. SO who are those people?
Vietnamese fought for a thousand years against chinese oppression. They’ve been murdered, they’ve been to many wars, and there was never a time when the vietnamese people were actually ‘free’. They have been colonized by France, the Mongols, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Americans etc … and still! They ‘won’ all wars.

We can’t actually say they won, if they were colonized it means they lost somehow.

I think vietnamese are natural people. Like the chinese, they see money as a game, remember what i say here. Vietnamese people do not want your good feelings or friendship, they want your money.
I defy anyone that lives in Vietnam more than 2 years to tell I’m wrong.
They will try to deceive you or create a fake atmosphere whenever you’re about to buy something. If you go in Vietnam you got to negotiate! You have to low down the prices, they will not do that for you, you might love that game too but i don’t.
They are also like that with each other, not only with foreigners. So those people are sharks to each other, there weapon? The smile!

Here i talk about the smile again!

Vietnamese smiles, they are very smily, oh yeah! They smile a lot. It might look good at first. But you don’t know why they’re smiling, for instance if you go buy shirts and trousers at a little vietnamese shop in the Ben Thanh Market, they will smile! Because of your $$$!

Whenever they smile when you’re about to buy something, it’s for your Cash! It’s for your money!

You don’t need to buy gifts to vietnamese, just give them money. You can have any wives you want if you have money. You can have all drugs and all kinds of things here with money, you can corrupt the cops or even corrupt anyone for just a few dollars. This is the reality about Vietnam, they are all sharks trying to get on each other, and keep reading.

The Good Side of the Vietnamese People

This is not only in Vietnam that we live in a world of Sharks. The whole world is a world full of sharks or wolves (whatever concepts suits you best). All i’m trying to do here is to give you new concepts of something you’re not aware of (if you never been in Vietnam), and for the others that been here i’m trying to be as factual as possible.

Can you imagine those people greedy? Hunger of money. Or do you imagine them differently, like humans and friendly? What would be your idea of that?

One of the major problems (not really a problem) is that we can’t know what they think. We don’t know if they are smiling for this or for that till you deal with them and see by yourself.
But with my experience i’d say those ladies smiles are pure and not fake, they are not dollar thirsty bastards. But if you live in cities like Saigon and Hanoi (cause those pictures are taken in the far ass of Vietnam up in Sapa northern Vietnam), and you want to buy stuffs and all, you will see what i mean. BUT! (And keep reading)

They are no different than us

It’s not in Vietnam that you will find the most professional liars or deceivers of all time but in Europe or America.

I hope it was instructive for you. Sorry if it was shocking, it is not my intention.

Vietnamese dudes loves to see what you got in your bags, sometimes they even put their hands to stretch the opening of the bag, to see what you got (NO JOKE). They all look at what you buy or what you got in your bag!! Even when you’re on the motorbike with all those bags they still try to look inside lol!

And if you’re unhappy with that! They don’t give a damn and laugh! But that’s what they only have in this country, their laughs.

When a man has nothing left, his only weapon is his smile.

There’s nothing we can do…

Let’s talk about the vietnamese and what they do good and wrong, because most of the time i say this is a great country wow great stuffs happens but what about the dark side of the force in Vietnam?

Real Fact #1:

2 Years ago, when i was working for an I.T. company in Saigon, i was like a technical manager or a trainee or i still don’t know what i was actually but that’s another story.
So 2 years ago, my boss tells me to go with a vietnamese technician to a company that is a bit far from where we work. So we go there, it was about 40 km far from the center of hcmc, so we go in the company that have a huge factory probably a 100 meters long and very large. The boss of that company is a friend of mine, he is french so we talked a bit with each other to know whatssup.

So we were chatting, and in his office there is a huge window where you can see all the factory. And here comes the technician! It’s here that’s funny:

The technician did so: He put his toolbox 50 meters away from the printer that had a problem and that he was supposed to repair. And well it’s kind of unusual to put it that far lol. So the technician (his name was Dung), takes a tool. He goes to the printer. Then he needs another tool and goes back to the toolbox that’s 50 meters away. Then he goes back to the printer with another tool. And goes back to the toolbox. And again and again and again.

Yeah. He did that for like 2 hours. With my friend we couldn’t say a thing, but i swear there’s all kind of things in this country that happens all the time and i don’t even pay attention to that kind of things anymore as it makes you more nervous than happy.

Other Facts #2

When you see how they made those electricity wires, there’s a lot of questions that goes in your head right?

Questions! How does trucks or high cars can drive under those stuffs? How do they know which cable is linking to which house? How do they repair the stuff? Do they repair the stuff? How they will be able to change the “layout” of their electricity wires in the future? Is there electricity problems in Vietnam?

Well! A lot of questions. One question that i can answer is yes theres a lot of electricity problems in Vietnam, that’s why most companies that uses computers have UPS for each computers in case the power is out.

Another question that i can answer is: When trucks passes beneath some of those cables, and in some streets the cables are very low. Theres vietnamese dudes that goes on the top of the truck with sweepers and they try to put the cables up or away so the truck can move in the street. This is no joke!

Well…..

Indeed Vietnam is an awesome place, there is nothing to say about all the stuff above. Vietnamese people have been oppressed for many years by their government, and we would be like them if we born in Vietnam and that’s a fact! There’s no trick!

The vietnamese governments doesn’t care about the evolution of their people nor their city, they just care about the evolution of their profit or economy. Cause they make huge profits. The average wage for a vietnamese is about 60$ so imagine the kind of profit they can make. Of course for 60$ you don’t get the super worker but it’s still a worker that you can do stuffs with.