Posted by sigismund on March 22, 2010, at 1:02:08
In reply to Re: Are you bitter? You may be mentally ill!, posted by rnny on March 21, 2010, at 12:17:30
> Wow Sigismund, you are in Hanoi? Awesome! What brings you there? Just asking.
I went to do some volunteer English teaching in Dalat.
I can't think of a culture more different from the west than traditional Vietnamese culture.
With its emphasis on the collective rather than the individual and with the sense of hierarchy within families, boundaries are completely different. Boundaries are really solid.It has been said that people come to Vietnam to see not any monuments or natural features, but to see the people who beat the French and the Americans. That is a partial truth, but what is outstanding for the most part is the extraordinary good manners, emotional generosity and beauty of the people. It's odd......I wouldn't survive in Vietnam for 5 minutes without money, the people are tough and unsentimental. Yet it is easy to find someone who wants to practice their English. I spent 90 minutes talking to a highly educated young man starting with the ethics involved in the treatment of a defeated enemy in a civil war, and moving on to the human condition.
We stayed for a month in Dalat.
I would like to go back to teach conversational English to adults.
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