WHAT IS REGIONAL DISCRIMINATION?

REGIONAL DISCRIMINATION

Regional discrimination is the contempt towards provincial people, specifically people whose origin is in provinces/cities other than Hanoi. This issue is mostly caused by all the stereotypes and prejudices that Hanoian gave them based on their common-bad characteristics of the region that they came from, leading to an increase of regional discrimination rate. As a result, the image of Hanoian in provincial people's mind has also been imprinted by the traits of elitist, egotist and bragger, which even worsen the hatred among the community.

(Street vendor sells Banh mi in Hanoi)

EXAMPLES?

Driving around the central of Hanoi with the license plate registered outside of Hanoi, certain common hate speech might happen like: “Me bon tinh le” (God damn it, the provincial), “Lai la bon tinh le lai xe'' (The provincial driving, again?).

Another common frequent discrimination is due to the dialect that sounds different from the Hanoian accent. Most of the time, Hanoians would make fun of others if they talk or sound different.