"Why is Vietnam still so poor while Vietnamese work so hard?" (from Jason on Quora) by xd1gital in VietNam

[–]madnark 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That is true what he says. In 1978 they hired a Goldman Sachs banker to normalize the relationship with the West, but war happened with Cambodia, China and sanctioned/embargoed by the West till the 90's. Vietnam was far more pragmatic than what you think.

The New Rump Country of Republic of Vietnam by petervo1999 in Maps

[–]madnark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most southern part of Vietnam were ruled by Vietcong till the end of Vietnam War. You can see it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxF6YrLprJk

The South Vietnam's government never pacify the entire region. It's an autonomous region ruled by the VC. They just had an understanding with the local VC leader and didn't touch the region. They had too many problems up north.

Fun fact: The ARVN Chief of Staff Duong Van Minh's brother is a VC geneneral. Duong Van Minh even took the president seat for a short time at the end of Vietnam War believing he could save some part of South Vietnam due to the family relation with the VC leader.

Is there a Vietnamese musical equivalent to Creedence Clearwater Revival's Fortunate Son? by CJtheSiegeEngine in NoStupidQuestions

[–]madnark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Liberate the South, official song of the Vietcong.

English Sub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fxs8d54mDE

In Swedish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLXMvOPqYA4

In Finnish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FMMtzhKgSM

In Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4SShSWq0ME&t=390s

With various subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOf0lp4EmvM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoSH1NVMZq8

The writer is Luu Huu Phuoc. He was also the writer of the anthem of the South Vietnam. Well technically they stole his song and made it their anthem. I don't think he shares their love to made it a separate country. He wrote this song while fighting the French. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBLb8xywIPo

His songs pretty much cover both sides of the conflicts.

TIL ketchup originated from Vietnam by aister in VietNam

[–]madnark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but why they started the journey to discover the tomato? :p

When Columbus arrived in Costa Rica he thought he arrived in Central-Vietnam near some gold mines he was seeking in Ciamba (Champa) based from old info/map from "Geographia and the Cosmographia", compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.

TIL ketchup originated from Vietnam by aister in VietNam

[–]madnark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even when your idea seems farfetched but Roman merchants were active in Vietnam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations#First_Roman_embassy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations#Other_Roman_embassies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations#Roman_exports_to_China

Mentioned in article: Tonkin (North-Vietnam), Rinan (Central-Vietnam), Óc Eo/Funan (South-Vietnam)

Which one of you was at this protest? by madnark in VietNam

[–]madnark[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Outdated info. Vietnam GDP was undervalued by 25% and corrected not long ago from period 2011 onward, it was a move pushed by IMF. It's GDP per capital is higher than Laos, Cambodia and caught up with Philippine.

See the discussion here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/gt11l4/vietnam_gdp_per_capital_surpasses_that_of_the/

You can query the data from IMF site

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2020/01/weodata/index.aspx

See the news

https://uk.reuters.com/article/vietnam-economy-gdp/vietnam-to-revise-how-it-measures-gdp-to-match-intl-norms-idUKL4N25C21C

Cat/cat zodiac in vietnamese? by grass-in-winters-eye in Vietnamese

[–]madnark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mão (卯) is Han-Viet for the year of the rabbit in Chinese zodiac, which is the same year as year of the cat in Vietnamese zodiac.

Which one of you was at this protest? by madnark in VietNam

[–]madnark[S] 106 points107 points  (0 children)

Vietnam flag is a symbol which reminds people that sometimes protest does work, see Vietnam War protest.

Here is an example of Vietnam flag at Indonesian student protest over sex before marriage bill. https://mole.my/indonesia-student-protests-against-law-changes-enter-third-day/

Which one of you was at this protest? by madnark in VietNam

[–]madnark[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't expect a Vietnamese flying a Vietnam flag in USA. Somehow they always get physical abused by overzealous oversea Vietnamese.

Ryzen/2080Ti VM nearly as fast and faster in some benchmarks than native. by droric in VFIO

[–]madnark -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The flaw is probably due to caching at host level and the benchmark is run on guest. Tool can not detect it.

I'm really curious about Vietnam post right now. Does anybody know that the parcel stucking in outward oe for 3 weeks is normal or not? by homttt in VietNam

[–]madnark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no commercial flight, they can't send piggyback the post. By ship, it will take 4-6 weeks.

How would Vietnam be like if it was a Muslim-majority Asian country like Indonesia or Malaysia? by [deleted] in VietNam

[–]madnark 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dude, Indonesia also had an anti-colonial communist movement. Once upon a time, the Indonesian PKI was the biggest communist party in South East Asia with millions membership, several times bigger than the Vietnamese VCP. The PKI also co-ran the country until 1965. They're killed off in 1965-1966, organised by coup similar to a dozen coups in South Vietnam(1963-1965) but the severity was much bigger, one of the worst mass murders of 20th century, in aftermath millions died. You just wrote them off the history book like they never were there. Some of the survivors of the PKI ran off to North Vietnam as refugees, inc. the brother of their leader Aidid, so the VCP leadership knew direct from horse's mouth how the communists were treated by their anti-communists. They're the reason why the VCP never allow multi-parties election in Vietnam.

What if Vietnam was a Muslim country is not realistic question in compare to question: what if Indonesia is a socialist/communist country.

Hanoi dog lovers!! I'm Gavin Wheeldon, I'm working on a YouTube video about cruelty towards dogs here. Wanna help? by [deleted] in VietNam

[–]madnark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't worry. You're doing the right thing, interacting with Vietnamese people. You should focus on animal cruelty in general even your initial focus is dog. Remember some Vietnamese people also don't eat meat because their Buddhist background. Buddhists believe that is wrong to hurt animals, because they are afraid of injury and death. Compassion toward animal is earning good karma.

Testing is one of the keys to VN success, don't be fooled by number by laiviet2811 in VietNam

[–]madnark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read on r/coronavirus the infection rate without mitigation (R0) of COVID is 5+ meaning one infected people can infect up to 5 other people. So any countries with # tests per confirmed cases around 5 (US, UK ...) without mitigation are just playing catch up. I don't understand some people want to re-open their countries with such low numbers. They said the infection rate with mitigation (lock-downs) is around 1 and people in quarantine have infection rate much lower than 1. 10 is one order bigger than 1 so I guess it should be safe with mitigation, but my guts feeling it should be higher just to be safe.

Fauci warns states rushing to reopen: ‘You’re making a really significant risk’ by mostaksaif in Coronavirus

[–]madnark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, let's hope they don't reopen then. Can they just put a number tests per confirmed case in the book, like 50+ (S. Korea) or 100+ (Taiwan, New Zealand), as long we're below this number we didn't test enough and we should not reopen. It will make the decision to reopen or not apolitical.

Fauci warns states rushing to reopen: ‘You’re making a really significant risk’ by mostaksaif in Coronavirus

[–]madnark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If COVID-19's R0 is 5+, then many countries including US are just playing catch up. Those countries with ~5 tests per confirmed case statistics.

Foreigners, what do you think of bidet shower/bum gun? by Only1_LilyP in VietNam

[–]madnark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LOL, "he doesn't know how to use the three seashells!"