Last April, the number of Vietnamese people traveling to Japan during the cherry blossom season was quite large. Coming to the culinary performance in the form of buffet (food buffet) in a restaurant in Tokyo, many people were surprised by a notice board written in Vietnamese: “Dear customers. Please take the right amount of food to eat. In case there is a lot of leftovers, we may have to pay extra. We hope for your understanding and understanding.”
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A bulletin board is “deterrent” but quite polite. It’s worth noting why this restaurant (and many other places in Japan) only post announcements in Vietnamese, and not English, French, or some other common language? It is clear that the Japanese are very “concerned” and … worried about the disturbing buffet behavior of a part of unconscious Vietnamese tourists. Instead of taking the right amount of food to eat, some people carelessly piled up the dishes on the plate, until they were too bored to eat it all, so they left the excess.
Eat buffet is full, charge 1 time, but also do not show the thought of “eating for money, bowl of rice” like that. Honestly, that kind of “food culture” is not liked by anyone. Don’t blame the restaurant owners for publicizing such a notice of diners, because their tolerance has exceeded the allowable limit.
Not only is it about eating, a part of us Vietnamese going abroad also “stamped” countless ugly behaviors, the most common being noisy talking, disorderly activities, littering, spitting, “preferring” to interrupt than queuing and having “high ratings” about… petty theft. All of these things need adjustment, even “major surgery” if necessary.
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In the past, the Japanese were very sympathetic to Vietnam. But the time has come for them to “unable to understand” the eating and drinking of their natives. That makes us think and behave properly. We all know that Japanese people are admired all over the world in many ways, including that they have a standard educational background right from elementary school. That is the reason why the Japanese passport has risen to become the “classest” in the world, above the passports of the United States, Canada or the European Union.
“Looking at people and thinking about us”, it is time for Vietnamese education executives to further promote the Citizenship Education program in schools, right from the primary level, on behavior when going abroad.
That helps us “improve the national image” in front of our friends from 5 continents. Vietnam is open to the world and the world is also open to us to visit. That interference is an inevitable trend of the times, especially that Vietnamese people’s travel abroad has been “popular” and more crowded each year.
Don’t let the offensive images of Vietnamese people become incurable.