9:54 The sign says High School "Tran Dai Nghia" 10:39 -10:50 Vietnam is too far from Mexico, hence, no landscape maintenance. 11:00 - 12:00 The sidewalks, the street pavement, the street paint could not have been older than 5-10 yrs, yet overgrown, dilapidation are everywhere. The culture of landscaping and maintenance exist only in the most cosmopolitan parts of the biggest cities of Vietnam. The mentality of the rest, even though living in modernized towns/cities, is still that of the rural Vietnam. They haven't learned the way of the civilized town dwellers. They - from the common people to the city officials - can walk by such decrepit sceneries with trash strewn everywhere, unkempt upkeep and feel perfectly in harmony with "nature." While you took up self-deprecating humor of being "hillbillies," many Vietnamese growing up under the communists and are now living the life of the "bourgeoisie" are still truly hillbillies. It will take a long time over 1-2 generations for the culture to change.
I disagree a little. True that a number of Vietnamese were not adapted to modern cosmopolitan living. In some tiny, isolated Vietnamese enclaves in the US, people still carry out their old way of life, but most adapt very fast. In my several trips visiting Vietnam, I think what the real problem is: the communist-induced culture and mindset: It's "not my problem: NMP". I visited many Vietnamese houses/private properties with impeccable internal upkeep, some even with ostentatious, unabashed, conspicuous consumption decorations. Yet, right in front and within the proximity of their property, it was a third-world slum. They don't care for anything communal and public, because they have no care nor trust in the system of governance, i. e. the communists. My acquaintance sponsored her family from rural Ben Tre to a posh neighborhood in Irvine, CA. Within a short time, the father meticulously maintained their manicured yards and landscape (even with a landscape contractor) because it was their property, and they had pride in the ownership in an upscale neighborhood. It was sort of like Eddie Murphy in Trading Place when he stopped his ghetto behavior the moment he realized he owned the place. I once made a comment and a Japanese friend agreed: in Japan, people would keep trash loaded up in their house to maintain a clean public place because people love their country, and in Vietnam, it is the opposite: people dump trash in the public to keep their house clean. The reason is that the Vietnamese are deeply alienated from the government, the public, and they don't feel any ownership: "it's not my government, not my properties, not my problem". The communists have been destroying Vietnam's traditional culture and society for half a century.
@@KPDigitalTravel my pleasure. The people are disgusted at corruptions from the top all the way down to the mayor/city-manager level. The latter are supposed to take care of their city, but they have the Potemkin-village mindset: only if there is a big event with exposure will they clean up. Otherwise, taxpayers' maintenance money will line their pockets. Any citizen who complains will be black-listed and persecuted. That's why things are like that. You don't see such dilapidation in touristy-sections of Hanoi and Saigon: those are permanent Potemkin villages, but are also business-driven (no tourists, no money). But hey, we do that in the US also. SF cleaned up its homeless and drug users only for the 11/2023 APEC summit. After that, it was back to normal. Maybe we are worse than DaNang, which was somehow permanently improved after the 2017 APEC.
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On the front of the school said, LIve, fight, work and study like Uncle Ho Chi Minh. So not the name of the school but more a motto.
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Maura was doing a great job solo, but the video ended mid sentence about the GS25.
9:54 The sign says High School "Tran Dai Nghia" 10:39 -10:50 Vietnam is too far from Mexico, hence, no landscape maintenance. 11:00 - 12:00 The sidewalks, the street pavement, the street paint could not have been older than 5-10 yrs, yet overgrown, dilapidation are everywhere. The culture of landscaping and maintenance exist only in the most cosmopolitan parts of the biggest cities of Vietnam. The mentality of the rest, even though living in modernized towns/cities, is still that of the rural Vietnam. They haven't learned the way of the civilized town dwellers. They - from the common people to the city officials - can walk by such decrepit sceneries with trash strewn everywhere, unkempt upkeep and feel perfectly in harmony with "nature." While you took up self-deprecating humor of being "hillbillies," many Vietnamese growing up under the communists and are now living the life of the "bourgeoisie" are still truly hillbillies. It will take a long time over 1-2 generations for the culture to change.
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I disagree a little. True that a number of Vietnamese were not adapted to modern cosmopolitan living. In some tiny, isolated Vietnamese enclaves in the US, people still carry out their old way of life, but most adapt very fast. In my several trips visiting Vietnam, I think what the real problem is: the communist-induced culture and mindset: It's "not my problem: NMP". I visited many Vietnamese houses/private properties with impeccable internal upkeep, some even with ostentatious, unabashed, conspicuous consumption decorations. Yet, right in front and within the proximity of their property, it was a third-world slum. They don't care for anything communal and public, because they have no care nor trust in the system of governance, i. e. the communists. My acquaintance sponsored her family from rural Ben Tre to a posh neighborhood in Irvine, CA. Within a short time, the father meticulously maintained their manicured yards and landscape (even with a landscape contractor) because it was their property, and they had pride in the ownership in an upscale neighborhood. It was sort of like Eddie Murphy in Trading Place when he stopped his ghetto behavior the moment he realized he owned the place. I once made a comment and a Japanese friend agreed: in Japan, people would keep trash loaded up in their house to maintain a clean public place because people love their country, and in Vietnam, it is the opposite: people dump trash in the public to keep their house clean. The reason is that the Vietnamese are deeply alienated from the government, the public, and they don't feel any ownership: "it's not my government, not my properties, not my problem". The communists have been destroying Vietnam's traditional culture and society for half a century.
@@tomv2144 thank you for your input. This will help me better to explain when people ask me about the situation.
@@KPDigitalTravel my pleasure. The people are disgusted at corruptions from the top all the way down to the mayor/city-manager level. The latter are supposed to take care of their city, but they have the Potemkin-village mindset: only if there is a big event with exposure will they clean up. Otherwise, taxpayers' maintenance money will line their pockets. Any citizen who complains will be black-listed and persecuted. That's why things are like that. You don't see such dilapidation in touristy-sections of Hanoi and Saigon: those are permanent Potemkin villages, but are also business-driven (no tourists, no money). But hey, we do that in the US also. SF cleaned up its homeless and drug users only for the 11/2023 APEC summit. After that, it was back to normal. Maybe we are worse than DaNang, which was somehow permanently improved after the 2017 APEC.
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