You need to face the truth, Viet Nam also likes to brag as much as China (funny both countries always consider themselves to be humble, e.g. "less talk, more action"). Maybe you are an oversea Vietnamese and so don't know much.
Vietnamese media LOVE to brag when there is something slightly positive. Good PISA results? It will be all over the news. If some foreign experts say something slightly positive about Viet Nam? All over the news. If Vietnamese Soccer team played a good game? Vietnamese media will brag like VN is the best. Sometime, Vietnamese media will even tell lies just to brag. Latest example is that a lot of Vietnamese media boasted that VN soccer team played so well in Seagames that the head Thai coach was so scared that he had to fly to Singapore. The truth was, the head Thai coached stayed in Thailand all this time (and Thailand easily beat VN)
@somsak can maybe confirm this. Khong the tin noi.
Maybe you are overseas so you dont know.
Actually you can see this clearly in this forum. Chinese members and one or two Vietnamese members love to post pics of buildings, roads, bridges, phones, good test results from China and Vietnam. And they keep saying they never brag
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@mike2000 is back , he will tell you the truth.
Im Viet and I'm just telling the truth. The difference I see in this forum is that only about 5% of the Viet members here brag or constantly post positive news about VN. The rest tend to stay quiet unless provoked.