I agree with you brother.
But I’m not sure if I should comment in this thread, I find AViet a very funny and strange member and not sure if I should take him seriously. Nearly all of his posts are about praising the confucian/east asian/chinese culture and attacking western or other cultures, even when the topic is only about military equipments, geopolitics, education, etc. This thread is only for VN’s economy but he still managed to use it to praise chinese/confucian culture haha.
Its not strange if a Vietnamese praise confucian/chinese culture because I have seen Viets who are like that. Its also not strange if a Vietnamese hate the west because I have seen Viets who hate the west. But I find it strange for this AViet member to also attack India like the Chinese do and talk like VN is better than India. For example, VN has absolutely nothing on the same level as Indian Institutes of Technology, not even close! Our scientific output (e.g. science academic publishing or patents registering) is nowhere near the level of India, ours is low by world’s average. Yet AViet still claimed that our domestic PhDs and education is one of the best in the world. So I’m not sure if I should take him seriously.
You are one of the few members of the Vietnamese American forumers which I find rational, otherwise I will not answer such personal attack.
You, in the West, believe that government and institutions are the most decisive factors to the future of a country. That's why you continuously talk about democracy, freedom of media and so on, also in this thread.
However, my belief, which is rooted from "How to build a nation" of Lee Guan Yew, is the quality of people, not institutions, is the most decisive factor to the future of a country, that's why I continuously talk about East Asian / Confucious culture and so on in this thread. Is it any different to your action?
Regarding Indian, you are living in the US and possibly you are working with the top crème of Indian, hence we have different opinions. You may not know that in Vietnam, in a meeting of a very big economic sector, the speaker, who is in a high position in trade, openly says that trade with any Indian companies should be avoided, because they are never honest in payment and delivery terms.
Despite all the bad mouthing about China, if you are in Vietnam, you will see that trade with them only increase year-on-year, and the share of trade with China increase too.
Regarding education, 2015 OECD report says that Vietnam rank 12th worldwide. You should not pick some successful Indian, mostly oversea Indian, in a mass of 1.2 billions, to prove your point. India, Pakistan and Egypt etc. all have received Nobel prize in physics, but Korea, Taiwan, China (except oversea Chinese) never have. Do you mean that quality of education in those countries behind India or Pakistan too?
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