my country - my pride (?)

It came to my despair as reading the news on fb unintentionally about a sign in Japan for forbidding only Vietnamese in a threatening tone.

Actually I have no idea how badly Vietnamese people have behaved in other countries so that several places get these negative preconceptions about Vietnamese like this.

Sometimes I'm proud of being a Vietnamese - with more thousand years of history and diversified cultures. Deep down in my heart, I do appreciate traditional Vietnamese women with the great personalities: diligence, three subjections and four virtues of a woman.

Even though I have European lifestyle strongly in my mind, I always remind myself to take pride in possessing an Asian heart  with Vietnamese traditional qualifications of a woman as well.

However, the more I'm confronted with many problems by a small number of young people nowadays, the more I feel disappointed and I just want to hide the truth that I'm Vietnamese as well for the fear of suffering racial discrimination.

Well, foreigners do not certainly discriminate us for the country's sake but our bad behaviours in their nations.

Foreigners, as a matter of fact,  admire Vietnamese for some fascinating reasons that my country brings to their knownledge of the depth of glorious history throughout wars. Besides, they also get sick of negative manners while dealing with Vietnamese.

For one moment, I could see a thief snatching a visitor on the street and running while nobody likely intended to care about that. At that time, a reasonable idea flashed in my mind to figure out the weird manner that Stephanie - my Germany friend had showed me at our first meeting. She said to me that there were so many people warning her to be viligant while visiting Vietnam for they would act like these and those blah blah bad things ~

I smiled bitterly and explained that not everyone in Vietnam has to be exactly the same ways that people have marked. There's a fly in the ointment, one rotten apple spoils the barrel :)

Vietnam is so famous in the world, neh?! But what sort of reputation is it supposed to establish? What  Vietnamese people have achieved so far in other countries will be ruined by some minor elements due to the fact that ill fame often speards more and more widely than good fame, as I know.

*sigh* I can see some Vietnamese swear like a trooper on Internet or even on the streets and brutally criticize thoughts or ideas that, if not following their minds, would be something wrong, weird and disgusting.

Okay, I'm done with this.

Vietnam is my native soil. I swear I'd think of sticking my ass to this country in order to aid in building it as one of the best places in the world. Sadly, my ideal and enthusiasm have gone already since I'm just an useless element with neither weapon nor spirit no longer.

I gave up. Totally I do. Hopeless! lolz~

With love,

- Hal