[Golden question]

I've lived in VN for 4 years. I learned alot of things. Once there was a fire in a commercial building in Saigon. Close to 100 people died. They reported only 8 and the whole place was covered with tarpulin the next day. CNN decided to report 11 fatalities.

[COLOR="Red"]Corruption is tolerated, but the people remains proud. Traffic is terrible, but people see it as progress. The Vietnamese are a proud people. We must not take that away from them. It is what my own people lack. Noticed when you see VN people in chaos over something, but suddenly everything is resolved after a few minutes?[/COLOR] We should learn from them.

I once lived in a room on the 2nd floor. There was this stabbing incident down stairs. Someone called the police who arrived 30 minutes later. The police demanded 1,000,000 dong (yr 2002 rate) from each store surrounding the place and left without catching the criminals. Now you know why traffic accidents are resolved without the police. They'd impound your motorbikes and would be given back to you for 200$US.

They lack universities. So, they make exams for school children tough enough to limit the number of college enrollees. Very simple solution. Unlike in my country where education is a constant source of problem for lack of school buildings.

Every business institution in VN pays a monthly retainer for people in authority (the fire department, the education department, the police, the city administrator, etc...). But they do not complain. It is their system.


Just saw this at one of the forum by a foreigner teacher who work there before and would like to share,quite agree on this sentence in red