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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If u can’t understand Vietnamese u will be fine . After all they will be laughing at u in Vietnamese .
Try to embrace it, accept it. You built that large frame brick by brick.. by cake 😅👌🏼 own it.
Well you may have a problem then. They have no filter.
like every where people may look but there isn’t fat shaming here. Plus be confident in you and you do you.
They are very polite and respectful. Enjoy your trip.
No those kind of comments are uncommon and Vietnamese people are kind and very polite. In Mexico those kind of comments are frequent but it carries no shame or malice.
Vietnamese have no filter. They’ll just call you fat, and ask why you are fat. You’ll hear the word béo a lot. I lived in Vietnam 5 years
Lose some weight then and don’t be fat
Yes and just tell them this
The country is built for smaller people. Chairs, walkways, boats, everything you can think of is meant for small size. So just go knowing that. It’s a wonderful country though.