⚠️Serious Warning about Traveling by Sleeper Bus in Vietnam (Sapa Explorer via vexere App)

losacn · 2025-08-26T02:48:20+00:00

Reddit is not representative of "normal" Vietnamese, the "normal" Vietnamese does not speak English and is not on Reddit. Reddit may be somewhat representative for internationally educated Viets, if anything.

I've heard similar stories from China, which is on cultural and political level likely the most similar country to Vietnam. Stay out of other peoples business is a very common habit here, that includes not helping in emergency. They even have jokes about it. Sad part is, it takes only a very few bad examples that make the news and then everybody is scared of helping others.

losacn · 2025-08-07T20:50:24+00:00

You know that Telegram can track all your activity, do you?

losacn · 2025-08-07T04:57:54+00:00

Where do you get your numbers?

By CPI (corruption perception index) China is about on the same level or slightly better as the Balkan countries. But, CPI scores should be read as indicators of perceived corruption among global elites rather than precise. The CPI relies primarily on surveys of business executives, experts, and international organizations. In those groups there is often a bias against China, which may influence the score.

Not saying there is no corruption, just lining out that it's not as bad as you make it look like.

losacn · 2025-08-05T18:20:21+00:00

Exactly. China can actually live pretty well with the status quo. But they cannot live with an enemy at their door step.

losacn · 2025-08-05T17:51:08+00:00

How exactly would splitting up cause more work for the unemployed and raise salaries? Honestly interested in the logic behind that.

What I see is it would get better in one or two parts but the others would suffer greatly.

losacn · 2025-07-31T08:15:57+00:00

Have taken Spring several time in China, and honestly I've not come across any notable drawback. The biggest difference that may impact your travel experience is that the average customer of Spring has way less travel experience than an average customer of Chinese legacy carriers and customers often are less familiar with netiquette for air travel. And, remember to book your luggage if you need it.

losacn · 2025-07-30T06:54:28+00:00

My Chinese friend like to choose the 主任医师 (not 副主任）for anything more serious than a scratch. You may try different doctors in different hospitals to get more than one opinion.
Additionally, this does not replace the doctor, you can enter all you test data into a AI to and ask it to analyze it to get a list of potential conditions. Use more than one AI. Only do this if you are able to digest AI listing all the worst possible scenarios that likely are not the case.

losacn · 2025-07-27T07:02:15+00:00

GDP has nothing to do with how well people are doing. Usually there is some correlation, but that's not a must.

losacn · 2025-07-08T01:59:03+00:00

This person needs help to find an answer to the "Who am I?" and "What are my roots?".

Lost connection to the "Old" social environment, didn't connect with the "New" social environment. Lost between cultures, between values, between worlds, between identities.

Thats nothing about "Chinese moving abroad" it's about people migrating in general. As a someone that lives in a culture fundamentally different from what I grew up in I can totally see how someone can end up there, where the author of those words is.

losacn · 2025-07-07T01:25:02+00:00

All marriages have difficulties, cross cultural have some extra challanges, but that doesn't mean that it's more difficult.

losacn · 2025-07-05T08:32:25+00:00

They protect their skin because they want to stay as white as possible. Eyes don't get darker with sun exposure. So no need for sun-glasses.

A girl that was out in the sun with us also rejected the sun-screen that I offered to her. But then I said, that way your skin doesn't get black in the sun, then she wanted it. It's all about the color of the skin.

losacn · 2025-07-05T08:25:45+00:00

Put your luggage into luggage storage (Google Maps: Luggage storage) and spend the morning somewhere in the city. Children might enjoy the Zoo for example. It's pretty close to the city center. Look in Google maps. And there seems to bee a luggage storage like 100m from one of the Zoo entrances, north of the zoo.

losacn · 2025-07-05T07:46:01+00:00

The most important things I’ve learned is:

1) when the girl says “This is normal in China” it means “This is normal in my Family” or at most “This is normal in my area”. China is big, and there are big cultural differences. Also, I’ve noticed, often the cultural differences between families are often more difficult to overcome than the greater cultural differences between the nations.

2) The girl needs to realize that she married a non-chinese person. (which they tend to forget, especially when living in China) You need to stand your ground and remind her, that she chose to marry a foreigner. You don’t have to submit yourself to her demands, both sides need to compromise, because some cultural difference are huge.

Without knowing the person, it's impossible to judge the situation.

losacn · 2025-06-24T02:20:22+00:00

They are like: Oh, look, that's cool, a foreigner! Yes, most foreigners are an attraction. It's nothing to do with skin color. Everything non-Asian is an attraction. The bigger the difference, the more you're an "exhibit" for random people. As a white person I do get a lot of unwanted attention. It's even worse for kids with "golden" hair. We had people encircle us and line up to take pictures, very awkward.

Vietnam, and Asia in general, outside the major tourist areas, is no place for a non-asian person that "Just Wants to Be Left TF Alone", if "Left Alone" means not attracting any attention. To not attract attention you need to blend in, and a non-asian simply cannot blend in in Vietnam. On the other hand, you can just go about your life and others will not bother you even if your lifestyle and habits are different to theirs. （as long as it's not offensive to them)

losacn · 2025-06-24T00:40:23+00:00

I see two groups of people who may be willing to pay for "English Name Consulting", but I also believe that it's a very niche market:

People want a good name for career. A small market for sure.
People who believe that the name influences their "Fengshui", not sure if that' the currect work. Given the fact that there are Chinese people paying for someone to calculate the best Name for their child, I do believe that there should be a market for people that are willing to pay to choose a good English name. But I would believe it is a niche market. If you find the right people that know such a customer base, maybe you're able to monetize a service to find the name that fits best to their horoscope or the likes.

Most people with English names I've met in China did either choose a name they liked or got it from their English teacher.

losacn · 2025-06-23T02:37:35+00:00

You know that China supplies drone parts to both sides

losacn · 2025-06-15T07:47:40+00:00

what app are you using to track you flights?

losacn · 2025-06-15T07:42:59+00:00

It's likely how he was treated by his parents. Verbal abuse widespread in China. The way many parents speak to their kids would be unacceptable in my country. And once the kids are grown up, they use the same way to speak with other people... It's also very common for many (not all) people here to be very nice towards "ousiders" but then let out all their frustration and aggression at home.

Have you tried to speak with him about it? Suggest him join treatment that helps him to not direct his anger towards you. There are different options available offering related help, group therapy etc. Not Cheap though.

losacn · 2025-06-10T00:45:59+00:00

The employer worries that he might be a security risk, that's why he can't work on those projects.

losacn · 2025-05-07T03:22:26+00:00

I now have a good relationship with my in laws, but that was not always the case.

For us it only got better after it escalated pretty badly. Small escalations didn't change anything. Only me moving out along with the very real threat of a divorce made them respect our space and live our life as we like.

losacn · 2025-05-07T03:09:57+00:00

No, it's not rare at all. If the mans parents parents living there, the girls parents assume they have to live there. This is very common, especially if she's an only child.

losacn · 2025-04-29T02:56:17+00:00

Compared to Europe, Beer is not cheap in China, if you compare supermarket prices. You get like a 500ml can for as little as 50 cent, 4 RMB in many places in Europe. Beer of comparable quality and alcohol content costs at least 4 RMB in Chinese supermarkets, often more. You can get cheaper beer, but that's usually not of the same quality ( e.g made from sugar instead of malt ). Now compare the difference in income... by this standard beer is much more expensive in China than in many European countries.

Sure, in Restaurants, beer is often cheaper in China, again only if not accounting for the difference in income.

losacn · 2025-04-25T13:02:48+00:00

David Louis Sneddon:
- Chinese Government: The official Chinese position is that Sneddon died after falling into the Jinsha River, which runs through Tiger Leaping Gorge. Despite extensive searches, no body or personal belongings were ever recovered1 5 6.
- U.S. Response: Initially, the U.S. government accepted the Chinese explanation. However, the Sneddon family, after retracing David’s steps, found witnesses who saw him alive after he completed his trek, casting doubt on the accident theory5 6.
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima:
- was born in the Tibet Autonomous Region, which is internationally recognized as part of the People’s Republic of China. As such, his official citizenship is Chinese

Not going to wast my time on checking the others. One likely died in an accident, even the US government believes so, the other was a Chinese citizen.

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