Chaotic Scene at Gumball 3000 in Vietnam: Admiration or Threat?

Young people flooded the streets, blocking the convoy's path, smashing windows to ask for autographs, and trampling on flower pots - Photo: TTO

As Tuoi Tre Online reported: Gumball 3000 held its first event in Ho Chi Minh City on September 14 and 15 to promote supercars, attracting hundreds of thousands of people. This is a good opportunity to promote tourism .

However, some unwanted situations such as " have caused the host to lose points with tourists.

Commenting on the incident, reader Nhan wrote: "I can only shake my head in dismay! This is mob syndrome."

To avoid the above chaos, reader Nhan suggests: We need to cure this persistent "disease" to maintain a good image in the eyes of international friends.

From the perspective of reader Dinh Khoa, this is not admiration but... intimidation. Why?

Here is a share from reader Dinh Khoa:

What a pity for the opportunity to promote image and culture.

Before the event in Ho Chi Minh City, the founder of Gumball 3000 expressed that they would have great experiences in Vietnam to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their special journey.

Unfortunately, "mob syndrome" and excessive enthusiasm leading to rude behavior have turned an event that could promote the image of Vietnam and its people internationally into an unhappy event.

Young people rushed onto the street, blocking the way for the motorcade, smashing windows to ask for autographs, trampling on flower pots...

That is what remained in the eyes of those present at the recent event.

A forest of phones were pointed at the convoy. Some were taking pictures, some were live streaming, some were even fighting each other to compete for position and the opportunity to get closest to the racers…

It's easy for someone to dismiss it as fan behavior, but to me, creating a chaotic scene at a major event that the whole world is interested in like Gumball 3000 is really the behavior of ugly young people.

Not only this event, but countless other activities and events that took place showed that many participants were probably not interested in directly enjoying the values and emotions of the present.

On the contrary, they only focus on filming and taking photos to get images of people and things that are of public interest and then post them on Facebook, Tiktok, Youtube... to get likes, views or make money, or consider it a way to show their class and self-worth.

All of these things completely go against Vietnamese culture and values.

From admiration to... intimidation?

In that crowd, how many people really understand supercars? Or do they come to them as a "follow the trend"?

Not to mention the owners of more than 100 supercars participating in the event are all prominent names, influential in many fields such as music , art and business, famous YouTubers, football stars, attracting attention from young people and millions of fans worldwide.

And those offensive images were accidentally spread.

When seeing the pictures of the event I sent him, my friend who works in the education sector burst out laughing and said he didn't know if this was admiration or... intimidation?

Then he sighed and shook his head: "To be honest, some young people are behaving rudely and dangerously, mistakenly thinking that it is cool and stylish.

It can be a manifestation of loneliness, alienation, loss of direction in positive life and valuing technological connection over direct human-to-human connection".

My friend also commented: Letting such chaos happen also shows the weakness of the organizing committee.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/khung-canh-hon-loan-tai-gumball-3000-o-viet-nam-ham-mo-hay-ham-doa-20240919114008677.htm