Honest question: my wife and I are overweight and not thick-skinned. Are comments or jokes about body weight common in Vietnam? Just want to know what to expect and how to react.Thanks.Honest question: my wife and I are overweight and not thick-skinned. Are comments or jokes about body weight common in Vietnam? Just want to know what to expect and how to react.Thanks.
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Me as a 120 lb teenager was called fat by my relatives. 🫣They’re very blunt and very skinny compared to Vietnamese living in the U.S.
Vietnam is not Thailand, those are blunt
Em không béo, em chỉ bồng bềnh thôi 🤗
The aunties in shops and markets are just honest. 🤣. I had one tell a friend “nothing here fit you!!” But there’s lots of laughter. I went into a jewellery story and the auntie looked me up and down and then said “Oh wait I get you BIG bracelet”. Dude. But they are the loveliest people and its never mean. Just more no filter. You’ll be fine, they are the sweetest people and you can’t take offence. ☺️
Not in Vietnam but Thailand. one of the Thai men asked us where our boy was with big ears. They will describe you exactly how you are. It’s not malicious to them
South east Asian cultures, use some weird nicknames , sometimes seen as insensitive, they may nickname a child , fat , skinny , pig , beer , monster , bank , , very weird.
I’m Vietnamese, so they don’t mince words. They called me fat in my face, no bs, and that’s that. Asians are not kind toward their own kind. I prefer it that way, the truth hurts, but it will set me free.
Motorbike taxis reluctatly take larger people as passengers. Most comments you won’t understand unless you know vietnamese
I agree that the Vietnamese are very polite people, I was there last year and didn’t have any negative comments at all about my weight. Go and enjoy yourselves 🇻🇳
In my experience they’re not necessarily going to bully you out of nowhere, but don’t expect them to use politically correct terms like “plus size”. A tailor straight told my dad that she’d need more fabric for his clothing because he has a big stomach. He wasn’t offended though, comments like that aren’t uncommon in my culture.