Last year, I have seen many households in my rural village got rich, built new houses, some even bought cars (foreign cars are heavily taxed so they are some kinds of luxury good). This was because as the nation attract foreign investments, our farmers have the opportunity to earn additional incomes by going into factories to work.
What is the people’s faith in socialism?
The people's faith in our Party and government is very strong. Young people (Gen Z) also have trust in our path to socialism. Vietnam's economic successess only strengthen that faith. We understand that patriotism is synonymous with socialism.
But not everyone trusts this path. Vietnam is diverse, and so are opinions. Liberal bourgeoisies do exist, albeit only a minority. If I have to guess, they are probably the ones who benefited from the exploitation by the West the most, either that, or socialist policies by the government don't often benefit them.
How is the government moving towards socialism?
Vietnam aims to "lift everyone up without leaving anyone behind". It means that we aim to reduce wealth inequality whilst developing our economy. Not only that, we also reduce opportunity inequality as well as we encourage education for less fortunate people.
(BTW, Reddit, being removed, will often mass downvote any mention of the word "equity", but "equity" was one of the factors contributed to Vietnam's success)
We also have a policy of national unity and social harmony. This means that we support ethnic minorities to build wealth (how do I translate "làm kinh tế"?) whilst preserving their cultures. We promote harmony between religions. The Party refrains from things that could cause divisions amongst different groups.
(Although, worryingly, a part of our youth on social media is importing the Culture War from the US, very dumb, but no major media are promoting this shit, so that's a plus)
Our current focus is in modernizing (digitalizing) the nation, we intend to develop our own core technologies (energy, chips, 5G, metro rails, etc) so that we may be truly self-sufficient and independent.
Our foreign policy is called "bamboo diplomacy": Strong root, flexible treetops. We aim to be friend with all nations in the world (by "friend" we mean economic partners, not military alliance).
We also have a non-alignment policy known as "Four No's". This means that as a neutral country with stable politics, we have effectively become a bridge that connects major nations together. The US wages a trade war against China on the surface, but they still trade with each other through us.
As a result, we have become some sort of geopolitical star with which everyone want to cooperate. From major powers such as China, Russia, the US, to medium sized economies such as South Korea, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Europe, etc. And I expect even more in the future.
Anyway, I'm tried of typing, so it ends here.
But before that, have you guys watched "Bắc Bling"? It is a recently released MV that promote our culture, it is well-loved by Vietnamese people.
Edit: Didn't know Lemmygrad would censor the R-word. Oh well.
The other day somebody on YouTube made a comparison between "respect" and "love".
I love my dog. But I don't respect it. My dog is entirely subservient to my will, it will never defy me. I respect a fellow human being, but I don't necessarily love them. That human being has the same capabilities as me. I would be foolish to not respect them.
Software packages in Debian are pretty outdated. I'd recommend you to learn NixOS for maximum cutting edge and maximum stability (yes, it's possible to have both, although, at the expense of compexity and learning curve).
Vietnam has no such firewall, as such, our people are accustomed to fighting Internet reactionaries. There are 2 types of reactionaries:
The loud, in-your-face ones. They will openly express their hate towards our government, the Chinese government, and Communism. They will openly spread misinformation (either deliberately or because because they believe in it) to smear their ideological opponents. The Vietnamese people laugh at their face. We do not respect them and we do not heed them. As a result, they are mere annoyances, not that dangerous (ideologically speaking).
The subtle West-loving liberals/"arachists"/"leftists"/whatever-you-call. This type do not openly oppose government policies. Instead, they will hide behind the mask of politeness and subtly mix facts and lies in order to twist our understanding. They walk the thin line between truth and misinformation, legality and illegality. The Vietnamese people generally don't guard against this type, because they aren't obvious enough to notice. This type requires actual actions from our establishment (such as police investigations) to counter.
Also, type 1 usually loves Trump and type 2 usually stands with Biden.
Anyway, white reactionaries aren't really interested in our online space. There are a few times the Vietnamese netizens and American netizens interact is when an English YouTube channel made videos about Vietnam (the topics are usually either the Vietnamese economic miracle or the Vietnam War). Fights usually happen between American rightwingers and Vietnamese in the comments, the results is usually the American comment being ratio'd. And that was Vietnam whose population is but a small fraction of China.
As for China, instead of suddenly open the gate for YouTube, Facebook, and the likes to flock in, I think it is safer for them to expand their already existing social media (Bilibili, Weibo, etc) to the English language. To be more precise: They should add foreign languages to the platform the Chinese themselves use (like how YouTube and Facebook do), not creating an "English fork" to separate Chinese from the rest of the world (which is what they already did).
I don't know why your comment has downvotes, probably from Firefox fans. I use Firefox out of necessity (I need a feature-complete uBlock Origin as well as the ability to spoof user agent), but Firefox UX is not polish at all:
Unstyled web forms (input elements) don't work well with dark themed gtk.
Context menu usability issues that were ignored for years up to now and the future.
No WPAs.
Incomplete Web standard implementation.
and many more.
Now, I understand that maintaining a big project such as Firefox is a lot of work for a small company, but the company themselves don't focus on Firefox at all. Instead, they venture into BS businesses that they are not good at and do not make sense (such as their latest attempt at AI trend).
Anyway, is Brave still a good browser for my use cases? Maybe I will consider switching. Or perhaps I will pray to the gods and Buddha from the 4 directions to make China make another truly FOSS browser.
Interestingly, I as frequent visitor of /r/Vietnam subreddit, once saw a post showing concern about the impact of USAID on HIV in Vietnam. Needless to say, I feel so underestimated. As if my country is some poor backwater economy in the eyes of Westerners.
I've been expecting the AI bubble to burst for ages but I've never imagined that the reason for it would be "AI is actually efficient". Capitalism is truly counterintuitive.
If you really look at china's policies, they are basically left wing with authoritative properties. but those properties are what keep conservative policies out of their government.
It's called "the vanguard party" and "the dictatorship of the proletariat", my dude.
Do you fail to remember how the tech world collectively cringe at one guy who intentionally injected malware into his own npm library to delete all data from Russia and Belarus?
I made a spelling mistake. I wrote "socalism" instead of "socialism".