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Yea, when I think of corruption, this comes to mind: https://e.vnexpress.net/photo/news/half-finished-hotel-projects-leave-central-vietnams-coast-wasted-457283
by latchkey 4y ago
Yea, when I think of corruption, this comes to mind:
https://e.vnexpress.net/photo/news/half-finished-hotel-projects-leave-central-vietnams-coast-wasted-4572836.html https://e.vnexpress.net/photo/news/half-finished-hotel-proje...
It isn't just central, it is the entire coastline.
> Unless you make $150 a month and that small bribe is actually your day's wages and you can't eat that day.
Oh totally. So many times I've seen them loading bikes onto trucks because people couldn't afford to pay. There is a lot of really f'cked up stuff there for sure.
I ended up just giving money away left and right, because I was lucky in that I could and it was the right thing to do. Nothing drives me nuts more than expats who complain about having to pay an extra 10k for something because the locals were 'ripping them off'...
- esperent 4y ago> Nothing drives me nuts more than expats who complain about having to pay an extra 10k for something because the locals were 'ripping them off'... Not all expats are rich. Many Vietnamese are rich. So yeah, it is kind of shitty that if you're a foreigner you'll be overcharged for everything all the time. It's racism, to put it bluntly, and not a good part of Vietnamese culture. I think it's totally reasonable to be annoyed about racism.