48 stories about Vietnamese "bad habits"

In December, Nha Nam published the book Vietnamese Bad Habits by writer Di Li. The work is part of a pair of research books on modern Vietnamese personality: Vietnamese Bad Habits and Vietnamese Good Habits (not yet released).

With Vietnamese Bad Habits , writer Di Li is the first female author to present her point of view analyzing Vietnamese bad habits and explaining them based on decades of research and her own experience.

The book includes 48 stories about bad habits, such as: egotism, valuing emotions over reason, one-sidedness, blaming, being lazy to thank, being lazy to read books, being lazy to express positive emotions but only liking to say negative things directly, criticizing and praising, being tactless or interfering in personal matters, male chauvinism, being too considerate, making noise, being bureaucratic, liking bribes, petty corruption, liking achievements, liking to be a teacher and not a worker, being obsessed with degrees, studying only for promotion, lacking independence, vanity, showing off, greed, not protecting public property, selfishness, thinking short-term and only seeing immediate benefits, the habit of breaking the law, never knowing enough, wastefulness...

Cover of the book "Vietnamese Bad Habits" (Photo: Nha Nam).

Writer Di Li took 15 years to complete the work, knowing that "it would cause a lot of controversy, because opinions are something that cannot be "quantified", so there will never be a common answer".

"Moreover, when the views more or less "collide" with some people, it is very likely to cause sadness. But I hope readers will receive these stories with the most goodwill, because the book is a serious result of long-term research on the character of the Vietnamese people, including both bad and good qualities," the author shared.

Journalist Yen Ba, when writing the introduction to the book, said that "this book contains all the personalities (and temperaments) that people avoid talking about publicly, let alone concentrate them in one place."

"Writer Di Li wrote this book as a way to teach herself, to reduce one bad habit each day. She did not write in a statistical way, recounting or condemning the bad habits of Vietnamese people, but through it the author and readers together draw useful lessons for life," commented journalist Hoang A Sang.

Di Li is a multi-talented writer with remarkable writing ability, having published dozens of books of all genres, especially making her mark in detective novels and travelogues. Vietnamese Bad Habits is her 27th book.

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