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I'm curious what both Vietnamese people and expats think about this.

For some context, I have a friend from West Africa who has been legally living in Vietnam for the past two years on an investment visa. She works with a Vietnamese company exporting products back to her family's business, speaks fluent Vietnamese, has built a really supportive local community, and volunteers every week with a charity that distributes food to people in need. (I'm actually joining them tonight.)

Recently she had a bad experience while travelling in Vietnam. It may well have been a misunderstanding, but it was the first negative interaction she'd had in two years here, so she shared the experience on Facebook.

What surprised me wasn't the incident itself. It was the comments that followed.

Most online trolls are easy enough to ignore, but one person in particular stood out. He's an American from North Carolina who runs what appears to be a legitimate racing media business and YouTube channel called Johnson Racing Media. He lives in Vietnam with his Vietnamese girlfriend, yet spends his time posting hateful comments, telling other foreigners to leave Vietnam, and according to several other people, has also sent them abusive private messages.

>Here's his YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnsonRacingMedia/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnsonRacingMedia

Everyone is entitled to their own political opinions, including views on immigration in their own country. That's not really what bothered me.

What I found strange was the hypocrisy. He regularly posts about how much he loves living in Vietnam because it's "safe" and because there are supposedly "no Muslims here" (which isn't even true, as Vietnam has Muslim communities and mosques). At the same time, he's telling other foreigners they don't belong here.

It just seems odd to me that someone who has chosen to build a life as a guest in another country would spend so much energy attacking other foreigners and spreading hate online.

I'm genuinely curious how Vietnamese people see this. Does this kind of behaviour stand out to you, or is it something you mostly ignore? And for other expats living here, have you come across people like this before?

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What do Vietnamese people and expats think about foreigners spreading hate while living in Vietnam?