Why Do I Love Vietnamese Community - My 100 days, 1000 posts, rep. 50 and Sir Anthony Bourdain

This is my entry for #bananacontest with the topic of “Why do you love being in Vietnamese community?” by @Hungrybanana . Unfortunately I am always the late comer for all the contests (in the next sentense I wanted to tell you to join it), but if you are interested what this contest was about, go here.

I would love to be in Vietnamese community naturally with a solid love without any reasons. But sometimes thinking about why do you love something would be interesting too. So today, I give myself and Hungrybanana some rationally thoughts about the reasons why I love this community, so much.

Hmmm, so I speak….Vietnamese

That’s the biggest reason. It’s not only about the language but I mean I was born and brought up in Vietnam, so I am genetically related to it. I feel emotionally connect to them, that is the most important thing. Surrounding in a community sharing my native language make me always feel welcomed too. I can freely express my feeling without language barrier. When I write any English post, I use Google a lot for vocabularies. It takes a lot of time and sometimes English express my thoughts, feelings in wrong way. Even it’s my fault. But yes, English is still important ( let’s talk about it in another post )

I love sharing and helping them

Even though I am not an expert in anything, but in any Viet community, group, social platform, I love the role of a supporter. If I know a lot, or with a big pocket, I will help them in different ways. But even I am a plankton on Steemit with very limited knowledge about this platform, I know I can still contribute my little abilities to them. Yes Vietnamese is my native language, I grew up there, ate a lot of foods, unforgettable memories…I’d love to be selfish and share with them first what I know, what I can do to make somebody to become better.

A steady foundation on Steemit

Everyone in Vietnamese community can help to make a strong foundation on this platform, our community is growing fast here. There are many different people trying to help and grow it, especially from Mr You-Know-Who ( in a good way :-D ). And since it’s my native community, it’s always my priority to figure out how to help them. I’d to be a small brick, or even a little sand in their steady foundation on Steemit.

Quick publicity:

• We’ve just had our official logo, footer.

• We’ve got an official tag #vn ( but we also use #vietnam #teamvietnam #vietnamese)

• Sub-tags: #vn-newbie for newbies to get supported, #vn-contest for all our contests, #vn-meetup for all meetups related, and more #vn-something to come. I would start soon #vn-discord to guide newbies how to use discord, and the most and best popular discord servers. Discord plays an important part in the Steem ecosystem as most of Steemian hanging out in Discord. You can consider this as an unofficial announment of the tag.

• 2 Discord servers

• A witness.

I guess that’s all about it. Do those reasons make sense to you? Let me know in the comment below. I give myself a ridiculous aplauses for this:

P/S: As a Vietnamese, the reasons I shared earlier for me just sound mehhhh, for me personally a non-Viet loves being in Vietnamese community is something extraordinary, like @jobviet, @Hungrybanana, @fotografia101,…other Steemians I haven’t known yet ( please introduce me some below, ok?). But I would love my gradtitude to a very special person with his whole-hearted love to Vietnam (cuisine), Sir Anthony Bourdain a person who died few days ago. We all probably remember him drinking beer, eating Bun Cha with Obama in Hanoi, but hardly know how much he promoted Viet cuisine to the world. Hat off and R.I.P.

P/S/S: So if you are curious why I didn't write all this in Vietnamese, because I hope I don't want HungryBanana having any trouble with google translate :D

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