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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All of SE asia will call you fat. My body weight healthy is 140-155lbs. People call me fat all the time I am 170lbs right now. Just laugh iy off. Just gotta roll with it. Own who you are.
Just say: Anh và em yêu là map đít mãi mãi ♥️
Reading all of these comments reminds me of when I taught in Japan, where I was definitely larger than any of my coworkers. One day one of them said “Kirsten, you are so big, but your … [motions to breast area] is so small!”
Lol just nod and move along. I’m Vietnamese, have a 23 BMI which is normal for westerners but is absolutely disgustingly fat for my culture, and yes I get annoyed when I go home. People see me and immediately scream: “OMG why are you so fking fat?? Did you eat your husband?” I just laugh and ask them how their worthless sons are doing. You need to have thick skin anywhere, but especially Vietnam. In a way, it helped me in corporate America a lot. When my boss screams at me and apologizes later, I just take it like it is nothing and tell him he can do 1000x worse and still wouldn’t be my mom’s easiest days. She was my first and biggest bully.
I just say you are jealous because my whole body feels like boobies
What a couple of douche bags you guys are.
Im not big but have really big boobs and was told by a little old man “big girls over here” 😂 haha now we call my boobs big girls.
Was having a dress made in Hoi An. Staff were jovial and fun. I was sitting down looking at patterns when one lady came up behind me, grabbed my boobs and said “we will need more fabric” 😂😂.
If you’re Vietnamese, you should already know the answer. If you’re not, Vietnamese do not joke like this with people they do not know.
Vietnamese people are not used to see overweight people. They are the least overweight people in the world.