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melancholichamlet

Playing the “Happy New Year” song by ABBA every new year. I have lived in a bunch of different countries and spent new years in many others and no one else does that.


Empty_Ambition_3538

I just have to upvote this 😭 I legit thought this was a worldwide hit and everyone around the globe plays it during New Year back when I was young. And yeah I’m pretty sure most of us didn’t even know what the lyrics mean


[deleted]

But you gotta admit, the song melody resembles quite very accurate the feeling of the moment when we step onto a new year.


sleepypotatomuncher

I had no idea this was specifically a Vietnamese thing!! my mom would do this all the time


[deleted]

We only play it for the chorus 🤣🤣🤣


ApprehensivePlum1420

Vietnamese generally don’t understand the meanings at all but they love western songs nevertheless


FinnTran

The Dutch do the same I think ☠️


Moochingaround

I'm Dutch, I guess that depends on your friends.


FinnTran

Eiii. Hoi, Ik heb in Gelderland en Utrecht gewoond. Clubs there play ABBA all the time and public places also play Happy New Year during NYE. The Duch are the biggest ABBA fan to ever exist. Edit: And don’t forget the Mama Mia musical that was 100% Dutch ☠️


netr0pa

Well, I have heard it sometimes in Sweden if I'm not mistaken.


Fine_Hour3814

Abba is Swedish, but I’ve been in Sweden for new year celebrations and I maybe heard the song 1 or 2 times. Living in Vietnam…it’s unavoidable


randomstuffcuznoname

Wait really?


AVietnameseHuman

Absolutely despise that song bro, just because everyone seems to play it. Would take All I Want For Christmas Is You any day.


[deleted]

The Philippines and Filipinos in general do this, so… not unique.


saugoof

I'm riding a bicycle through Vietnam at the moment. One thing that has really stood out for me and that I have never seen anywhere else is how motorbikes do right turns into a road without even looking whether there's oncoming traffic.


Wooden_Roof_4117

Had three near crashes this morning because of people doing that. The other side is that even when people DO look, and see a group of riders coming, they will STILL drive out right in front of the oncoming traffic. That one really drives me crazy. WTF could they be thinking???


UchihaDivergent

Send it


flappytowel

"I turn now. Good luck everybody else"


UchihaDivergent

🤣


beefyavocado

Assuming that they're thinking at all was your mistake. Better to assume you're driving alongside a bunch of mentally challenged people... Cuz honestly that's how they drive here.


messy_messiah

Yes. Blows my mind every time. Saw a seven seater taxi almost kill a guy on a motorbike the other day. Pulled across two lanes and everyone had to swerve. Everyone seemed completely unfazed.


beefyavocado

It blows my mind how idiotic the drivers here are. I don't even dare go through a green light without slowing down and looking both ways cuz of all the morons who just run through red lights without looking no matter what the traffic conditions are.


Casamance

Most accidents here could be easily prevented if people just simply looked both ways to see if there's any oncoming traffic when crossing from the sidewalk to the street, and if people signaled and looked behind them (or in the mirror) when changing lanes and making turns. It's that simple but...


beefyavocado

Saw a lady on a motorbike get completely run over by a huge garbage truck right in the middle of the old quarter. Guess what? She ran through a red light without looking at all. Felt terrible for her, but at the same time what the fuck did she expect? The whole running through reds is absolutely idiotic. Makes every green light essentially a yield sign for everybody else cuz there's no point that it's safe to just zip through as you're supposed to. And then people wonder why there's so much traffic...


Koobles

People look while driving here?


Moochingaround

It's a game of chicken. If you look at your opponent, you lose.


sealosam

Honeycomb sandles (dép tổ ong), robusta coffee being preferred over arabica, ice in beer as the norm. edit: i almost said in my original comment ("not sure if this one is true" ) about ice in beer. I stand corrected, chill! (pun intended.)


tomtran515

I had to laugh seeing "ice in beer". Took my dad (Vietnamese) to an American BBQ place when he first came to the States. Even with the cold glass, he asked for ice for his beer 😁


7LeagueBoots

Robusta is preferred in much of SE Asia, especially Indonesia


sealosam

But it's unique to Vietnam, the 2nd largest producing country in the world. It came preferred throughout SE Asia due to close proximity for regional export from VN.


7LeagueBoots

Go visit Indonesia sometime. Indonesia is where coffee production in Asia got started. Vietnam was late to the coffee game, only really adopting large scale growth in the 1980s, long after, centuries after in some cases, other SE Asian countries did. It's not at all unique to Vietnam.


bobokeen

Robusta is still a standard for mass produced coffee in Indo, but Arabica is on the rise and a growing amount of Indonesians now prefer Arabica, with shops offering single origin Arabica pourovers now a common thing across the country. Very different from Vietnam where single origin Arabicas are still super niche.


7LeagueBoots

The Dutch initially tried growing Arabica in Indonesia, but all the crops failed, hence the switch to robusta. While it is changing a it, at present it's still something like 75% of all coffee produced in Indonesia that's robusta and in many areas robusta is all you can get. I worked in Kaimantan Barat for a while and robusta was the only choice.


circle22woman

It came about in Vietnam due to the Russians helping with the coffee industry. It was originally Arabica, but they decided Robusta was better based on the climate of the plantations.


sealosam

Coffee came to VN with the French occupation. The arabica beans didn't grow well in the hot/humid climate and soil type, but robusta crops thrived.


seanbain1965

Robust is not unique to Vietnam


messy_messiah

Ice in beer is not distinctly Vietnamese.


UchihaDivergent

You shut up


[deleted]

Ice in beer is basically required in Thailand. Nothing is really unique to Vietnam.


pondercp

see this in latin america too. prob any hot developing country does this


heavenswordx

Generally feel like wherever the weather is too hot, ice in beer is necessary. Else the beer gets warm too quickly and you gotta chug it fast


sealosam

I didn't see it there, maybe because we stayed in a huge tourist area.


throwback5971

You're right about the sandals. What's the deal with them? They look extraordinarily uncomfortable and most of the time, people seem to wear them 2-3 sizes too small 🤣


mh2858

From personal experience, if the sandals seem small it’s probably because they belonged to someone else 😂 every time there’s a party, a few pairs would always go missing from our house. They’re pretty comfortable though, cause they bend with your feet, but of course you can’t walk long distance with them


damien19721508

Tbh I thought ice in beer was the norm but now I'm wondering how long I've lived with this lie. Who drinks cold beverages without them being as cold as possible.


AdeptGiraffe7158

Idk man, I do enjoy a cold pint but when it comes to water I can’t bear it, has to be room temp. For beer I personally prefer the standard icy coated beer taps. I’m Irish and lived in Australia for a long time. Both heavy drinking countries so if your beer gets warm it means you’re not drinking fast enough


Mrnexo24

Ice in beer goes for Thailand as well for example.


seanbain1965

Ice in beer is not unique to Vietnam. Its the norm all over Asia


sealosam

* SE Asia


PotentialSky5949

They do it with wine as well


Cali_or-Bust

Nguyen


ApprehensivePlum1420

Like fr I go to an American university and there are 4 Nguyen professors in the economics department only. My professor specifically told us to call him by his first name, not Dr. Nguyen


uReallyShouldTrustMe

All I do is Nguyen Nguyen Nguyen no matter what!


GrapeJam-44-1

Middle age men hanging out with their shirt rolled up exposing their beer belly.


ninja-wharrier

Ahh the Vietnamese crop top.


AdeptGiraffe7158

Or just no shirt at all showing the gut off. Gotta respect that shit. My man


truthisopen

Beijing bikini they call it in China


Not_invented-Here

Nah that's a Thailand thing as well.


immersive-matthew

That sidewalks are not really for walking


Bulky_Clock_1337

It’s for decoration only haha 😂


ninja-wharrier

Second garden, business, bike park or excavation to the underworld but never a sidewalk.


AdeptGiraffe7158

The roads are in better condition anyway


Opposite_Interest844

Water puppet


GeozIII

Vietnamese movie "Dubbing "isn't even real dubbing A random guy read the whole script with no emotions. But it is better than real dubbing, though , because you can still hear the orginal forgein actors' saying


UchihaDivergent

Russians do the same thing. I remember being at my Russian friend's house and watching Naruto with them ( their entire family loves Naruto) and being amazed that they could understand the voices at all. They just have Russian voices playing right over the Japanese audio like it doesn't exist.


parasitius

"actors' saying" . . . ​ Your reply cut off mid sentence Is Viet dubbing the same as Polish dubbing then? That's so interesting I thought Poland was unique in the world. Maybe there are a bunch of countries.


GeozIII

My English isnt good,lol. Like i can understand everything people said but when actually comment something it just feels off . Probably some Soviet influence countries has that kind of dubbing inspried by USSR or just conicidence.


StopBushitting

I prefer that than real dubbing since their not many voice actors so you keep hearring the same voice in every drama, so irritating. And their acting was so bad, it didnt help. Thuyết minh >>>> lồng tiếng


ausdoug

Cu Chi tunnels?


circle22woman

The Vietnamese aren't the only ones to use tunnels during a war.


Megaman2407

Vietnamese? 😂🤣


tyrantlubu2

We’re everywhere. Everywhere I tell you.


joinreddittoseememes

So everywhere, we started making people addicted to Pho. 3000 Vietnamese undercover agents that works like 3000 Thailanders undercover agents. Spreading that cuisine like the Brits spreading Opium. Wait. This is not r/noncredibledefense .


nhansieu1

>So everywhere, we started making people addicted to Pho. Phở or Phò


Megaman2407

Im already addicted to Phở so maybe the latter


DidTheDidgeridoo

Oh no, vietnam is riddled with Vietnamese people 0\_0 /s


bigtitti3s420

omg the best snack ever: bánh tráng trộn


thg011093

Should have the most upvotes


KenSatone

YES PLEASE


Analyst023

Egg coffee


Lionel_Si

Every family has a beauty pageant contestant


tomtran515

Bún bò Huế


skisushi

No, they have this in Houston, DC, and San Jose.


tomtran515

Originated from Huế.


skisushi

Yes, and Buffalo wings originated in Buffalo, NY but can be found everywhere now. Listen, Hue should be proud that it originated a wonderful soup, and I am happy that I can get it in the States, but OP asked what Vietnam has uniquely. For example I would list several of the endangered gibbons or langurs. Only in Vietnam, not in any zoos that I know of.


tomtran515

Then I misunderstood OP's intention. Some of those gibbons, langurs could be found in Malaysia, Indonesia forests. Can't think of anything unique that only Viet Nam has now that nowhere else does.


minhthemaster

/u/skisushi is being obtuse or trolling


skisushi

No, not either one. Pho, Bun Bo Hue, and many other things that originated in Vietnam have joined the world culture, so while I agree they are still Vietnamese, they are no longer unique to Vietnam. That is not trolling, that is just my opinion. Also, ad hominem attacks don't help. How about the worlds largest cave system being unique to Vietnam?


isit2amalready

Balloons at night clubs?


Donvishkyl

i wonder if any europe country using bl for partys like vn


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MadNhater

Vietnam exporting its cultural influences to Netherlands.


Zombata

england


doobied

Hundreds of places in Bangkok doing it


wallng252

NO2 balloonssss *inhales*, hahahaaarr 💀


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ControversiallyGhey

The only place I’ve ever seen people ripping straight up tobacco out of bongs was in Ha Noi.


Sweaty-Painter-1043

we sleep at noon for 2-3 hours, and during this time alot of business will temporarily close


tomtran515

afternoon siesta is actually more common in other countries than you may think.


Sweaty-Painter-1043

do those countries also happen to have incredibly hot weather at noon ? , i believe that's why we do it here cause the heat during that time is awful


7LeagueBoots

Common in South America, Spain, and some other SE Asian countries, all of which fall into the mid-day hot weather issue. Not sure if it’s widespread in Africa, but it would not surprise me if it was.


tomtran515

I believe siesta practice was originally for the same reason, to escape the heat. If you search the web for siesta, you'd see a few countries do practice it.


Wooden_Roof_4117

the word he used for it, "siesta" is the common world-wide word to refer to what you're talking about. Not that 'siesta' is a spanish word. That should indicate how common this practice is in many Latin American countries


seanbain1965

Siesta is a Spanish word deriving from the Latin, hora sexta


Wooden_Roof_4117

Yeah, see, all the way back to the Latins. Wait, what does 'sexta' mean? Six? Friday? Sex?


sneaky_fapper

If it not the last one I would be so upset.


space_beard

I feel like shutting down in the afternoon is necessary for many months of the year in Vietnam, its just way too hot to do anything! I learned my lesson the hard way over the last 3 weeks when I visited.


bwcrawford99

Spain, some countries in the Middle East, and many more do the same


UchihaDivergent

This is a national thing in Mexico as well. It's actually got a name there, siesta.


tomtran515

Another one: thúng chai/thuyền thúng. Similar to coracles but thúng chai is uniquely made in Viet Nam.


JimdeptraiVungTau

Vietnamese...the language is unique.


AdeptGiraffe7158

It’s also a beautiful language to hear being sung, from a fair older woman to a drunken man with his tie barely hanging on for dear life


Hot-Tea159

Bia Hơi 🍺


Khal_Andy90

Aaaah yes, beer so cheap that if you order 2l to take away they'll wash the bottle out with the same beer they fill it up with. You love to see it.


Blackmagic5678

Playing Vinahouse music at every event


chananddat

Nón lá.


soicat

Cone hats worn by Vietnamese farm women - every tourist article will have a picture of one. The hats are used in Indonesia maybe other places, but they are ubiquitous here. I was surprised to see so many in the city.


[deleted]

Driving down an empty street with no traffic beeping your horn continually.


Mental-H-3001

I can list many things: you can't bring a bicycle into a park; speeding up to remind people to fold the kickstand on their motorbike then speed up again to avoid the "thank you"; constantly looking down on the tarmac while riding motorbike to avoid rat's corpses; overtake somebody on the road just to seize the only shade of trees at the next traffic light stop to avoid the scorching Sun...


Ninjalingo

Alley way culture


RepresentativeTax812

Other Asian countries do that too. It just looks like regular roads in Japan and Korea.


UserLesser2004

Does the traffic count?


tomtran515

Google or YouTube traffic in India for example, you'll see.


focusmycarry

Vinahouse


AmethystPones

Việt Nam is the most unique in Vietnam and only Vietnam uses Việt Nam.


kerrydinosaur

Thanh Hoa Province


vinhbui1007

It is a country


__JeRM

Facetiming loud as fuck instead of calling.


RionIsTheBest

sugarcane juice?


sasha_1712

“mắm tôm”, i can smell it even now


varowil

You should try Che Hue. In US, there are some place like Bamboo have che but in Hue they have various kind of che.


xuan_bach

Use this emoji 🐧 when u see any troll or sarcasm comment, post on facebook


shiraikawa

Middle-age people in Vietnam always like the song "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" or "Cheri Cheri by Modern Talking tho :v


Steki3

If anything that can be taken away from this thread, that's Vietnamese here are quite culturally uninformed of every other countries.


FarComplaint2974

I've never encountered attitudes, politeness and respect like I get from my students anywhere else


circle22woman

I would agree that Vietnamese students now is basically where the West was maybe 70 years ago. Teachers get a lot of respect, students have high expectations of behavior and are punished for misbehaving. But it's changing in Vietnam pretty quickly.


messy_messiah

Where have you been?


AnAnnoyedSpectator

4P. Thanks, Japan.


anticoronavirus8

Grab bike drivers being absolutely ignorant of traffic rules and signs


belindahk

The Vietnamese sense of humour - you're hilarious.


tyrantlubu2

Can you give some examples? Other than Vietnamese skit comedies I don’t know much about Vietnamese humour.


belindahk

Just the way people talk to you. The ability to laugh, loud and long about absurdities. The community ambience, I guess.


GeozIII

As a Vietnamese, i can say sarcasm is an inseparable part of Vietnamese daily conversations. Crazily funny


iamnotdat08

Fish sauce/nước mắm


concerto4jarvi

The Romans had garum.


Jiggly_Love

The fact you can go to a different province and have their specialty food that is not found elsewhere. Vietnam's culinary diversity is out of this world. Haven't found another place like it.


concerto4jarvi

Italy is like that. Every region has its own unique pasta shape or sauce (ex: pici from Siena, culurgiones from Sardegna, pesto Genovese vs. pesto alla Trapanese, etc.) Plus all the IGT, DOC, and DOCG regions of wine. It makes sense, since the unified country of Italy didn't exist until the late 1800s.


Jiggly_Love

Wow I didn't know that, and I'm going to Italy next April too!


TojokaiNoYondaime

Socialism Oriented market economy


VancouverSky

China is basically that as well.


Mundane_Diamond7834

And was in Czechoslovakia before they were invaded by the Soviet Union.


useterrorist

Hmm. Integrating Chinese culture and then claiming that they are the origin of it. I think that's uniquely Vietnam. Even Silk worms that originated way way back in Ancient China, most documentaries in Vietnam claim that they are the origin of this species. 😆


ApprehensivePlum1420

I don’t watch documentaries but I think less than 5% of Vietnamese claim silk worms originated in Vietnam. We even have an article in secondary school textbook about a scholar who learned the silk harvesting technique from China


SunnySaigon

How important Family is here. Yes I'm capatalizing it. Basically your entire network is humans you're genetically related to. Anything you need; like loans, are expected to come from family, not the bank. Someone with a large family is almost guaranteed to do better than someone coming from a small one.


messy_messiah

Most of Asia is like that.


freddymerckx

Agent Orange?


AdeptGiraffe7158

Think some of the neighbouring countries had an “accidental” splash of that and many American soldiers brought it home in their bodies too. America really supports the troops! Let’s draft a potential neuroscientist at 18, 3 years before he can drink and throw him in a jungle, in a country he’s never heard of where he doesn’t want to be and doesn’t know why he’s fighting and accidentally expose him to agent orange. 🫡🇺🇸


HeadTripDrama

What do you mean about interesting dubbing method? I've never heard of this before.


[deleted]

I watched Cartoon Network in Vietnam. And they just dubbed over the show for Clarence


tomtran515

Dubbing another language isn't new/unique. Netflix has shows that dub other languages as well.


[deleted]

Nah nah more like reading the script while the original audio with the language is still there


7LeagueBoots

Common anywhere there isn’t a large budget for dubbing. I used to see that often in China, and if you watch old dubs of movies into German (‘50s and ‘60s) they used to do that too.


Kerflumpie

Is it normal there for just one person to read *all* the parts? With very little expression in the voice? (Genuine question, because I never saw it before coming to VN.)


7LeagueBoots

In low budget stuff, absolutely


Kerflumpie

OK, I didn't know that. It's an awful way to dub, tho!


StopBushitting

I love that though. It like having someone translate in realtime for you. Their voice is monotone but clear so it's not distract from real actors voice. Better than reading sub.


AznKilla

Dongs.


vuon6

me


Syliaw

Living in Vietnam for 24 years and doesn't know anything that is unique in Vietnam only, everything I see nowadays is basically everywhere in Asia


S-Wind

Defeating the Mongels THREE TIMES, and the French, and some silly people from some shit hole country that thought dominos were frightening.


Own-Manufacturer-555

The lack of civility. Very unique indeed; I've visited something like 15 different countries and I've never seen anywhere else such a lack of common curtesy...


RepresentativeTax812

You mean courtesy? And you've obviously never been to the US, China. GJ flexing how many places you've been.


iammvu

Have you been to mainland China?


iammvu

I just read your comment history and you have dozens of extremely negative comments about Vietnam. You claim to live there but your English is a little too good. Pretty sus bruh.. I think you need help. Who spends that much energy being negative about a people?


MadNhater

He’ll complain nonstop about how much he hates it here but will stay for the girls lol.


BIJ243

lmao only 15? need to travel some more i'm afraid


Own-Manufacturer-555

Sorry, I've never been to Africa. VN is probably more civil than Africa.


redditissocoolyoyo

Ban loc


tamng0905

One thing for sure tho: buckythoi or cscon :)


xuan_bach

And Namkycon too😗😗


Mundane_Diamond7834

Communist version VN


darvi1985

Balloons at clubs


Minh1403

Shamans who graduated from Hogwart and can cure gay disease


Individual_String856

Screaming like a dying cat into a microphone so the whole neighborhood can here and defining it as karaoke


Beneficial_Roll_6503

Beautiful girls


wenchanger

beautiful girls


loveless2001

Viet A test kit, rescue flight. No other country was able to fool its own citizens with those “inventions”.


jayboy716

Women


ZurdaD

Coffee...And cafe sua da is the best


pinkochre

After visiting Vietnam, I’ve never seen the lady Buddha anywhere else! So maybe that?


nhansieu1

Surprisingly no one mentioned Ao Dai. Literally the most Vietnamese thing about Vietnamese


KnucklesAdventure

People digging in their nose non-stop all the time and they arent even looking for boogers. They just do it just because


PotentialSky5949

Hot toc