Vietnam's Culture of Greed & Dishonesty.

[Carl Robinson]

Pegged to what's happening to what people are eating - and food they export - in today's Vietnam, here's my latest Substack on what's seriously lacking there now.  The loss of those traditional values is often spoken about amongst the older Vietnamese I know, both in the diaspora and back in Vietnam.  A bit harsh, I admit, but I've earned this opinion in my own experience then and now.    

Vietnam's Culture of Greed & Dishonesty. - Carl Robinson

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Carl Robinson

USOM/USAID 1964-68; AP/Saigon '68-75

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Australia.

[Helen Clark]

I remember this issue from when I was living there and had a running list of reported dodgy products.

Bubble Tea: Tapioca balls substituted with plastic (blamed on China)

Chilli sauce: Orange lead paint added for colour

Coffee: Actually some kind of sump oil with caffeine and coffee flavour added

Fried shallots: In reality bits of sweet potato

 Meanwhile you couldn't go to a backpacker bar without some idiot tourist convinced their hamburger "was actually definitely dog". Dog meat typically costs far more, of course. 

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Dear Carl,

Great article. Much of the moral degradation in the younger generation is happening beyond the communist borders. There is a price on morals. 

Jack