http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/06-01/laos-visa-scam-in-hanoi-hanoi-vietnam.html Tue, 31 May 2011 13:10:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/06-01/laos-visa-scam-in-hanoi-hanoi-vietnam.html/comment-page-1#comment-2270 David Butterworth Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:56:46 +0000 #comment-2270 Rather than letting the people at the Camillia Star Hotel get under your skin, you might want to ask yourself why are the Vietnamese the biggest scammers in that region? Isn't part of the reason duality, or dualisitic thinking? I had a similar experience in Laos itself while hiring a mountain bike. I wrote about it and told a person about it and got no sympathy, calling my attitude: "white, racist and imperialist." While there is absolutely no excuse for the people of that country's behaviour, have you stopped to consider that it migh be something to do with the fact that the U.S. bombed the hell out of Vietnam during the 1960s, and that they partially tar us all with the same brush? Rather than letting the people at the Camillia Star Hotel get under your skin, you might want to ask yourself why are the Vietnamese the biggest scammers in that region? Isn’t part of the reason duality, or dualisitic thinking? I had a similar experience in Laos itself while hiring a mountain bike. I wrote about it and told a person about it and got no sympathy, calling my attitude: “white, racist and imperialist.”
While there is absolutely no excuse for the people of that country’s behaviour, have you stopped to consider that it migh be something to do with the fact that the U.S. bombed the hell out of Vietnam during the 1960s, and that they partially tar us all with the same brush?

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