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Erisagi t1_iwxnj8j wrote

I get the sense that sometimes people on Reddit forget that Vietnam is also an authoritarian country. Perhaps it's forgotten because of sympathies for the country's cause in the Vietnam War, or perhaps it's because Vietnam is seen as antagonistic to the PRC.

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[deleted] t1_iwzbbm9 wrote

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Erisagi t1_iwzn0fz wrote

Apparently that's enough to allow people to forget they are also authoritarian and regularly abuse human rights.

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laughinggas t1_iwxhsuf wrote

I had no idea Vietnam was like this.

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Littlebotweak t1_iwxlefj wrote

Yea, you’re gonna want to look into the fall of Saigon. It isn’t like the US left once the side they were backing won. Nope, it was the opposite of that. It was a bit like what went down in Afghanistan, in fact.

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Kilvayne t1_iwxoitj wrote

Never learned that in school!

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Inphexous t1_iwy3aec wrote

After the fall, the sanctions came in and the country fell into a recession. There was no help from the outside and people started to leave. I'm one of those people that came from Vietnam during that time.

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jens-2420 t1_iwxynlg wrote

You can still learn after your school days.

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Floom101 t1_ix30pga wrote

In fact, most of what you learn should come after you leave school.

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sfinney2 t1_iwy7t00 wrote

Are people not aware the Communists won the war and are still in power?

Granted it is not a hostile foreign power by any means but it's still run by the same authoritarian system and has not reformed into a democracy like the "Asian Tiger" countries have for the most part.

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laughinggas t1_iwydfgt wrote

That part of the world tends to stay out the world in history books at school and off the news and TV in Europe.

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cchiu23 t1_iwylfg0 wrote

Vietnam isn't an asian tiger though?

And pretty much all the asian tigers are dysfunctional in their own way (except maybe taiwan)

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Erisagi t1_ix13equ wrote

That comment is saying Vietnam is unlike the Asian tigers.

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groveborn t1_iwxpt77 wrote

Most countries are like this. America was a revolution in human rights (sorry, a point of clarification, white male human rights, especially if they owned land).

That spread around a little last century, but by and large, the Roman era laws and ancient east laws are the way of the world.

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AnalogSolutions t1_iwxfv2h wrote

5 years house arrest, then jail for 8 years? 🤷

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Al_Jazzera t1_ix55t5w wrote

How thin skinned is a government that it lays out 8 years because someone had an opinion? Communisim is a nasty vile system.

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PlayedUOonBaja t1_iwz8exc wrote

This is going to put a dent in their tourism.

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coryhill66 t1_ix33dlz wrote

Vietnam strong enough to take on the United States and when also so afraid they can't handle criticism.

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