When walking through the streets of Vietnam, I often see people with injuries or scars in places that are rarely seen in Japan. I have wondered why so many people injure themselves in such places, so I would like to explain based on my own experience.
I've been curious about this since I first came to Vietnam...
When I first arrived in Vietnam, a woman in my office came to work with a bandage on her calf. I didn't ask her why she was injured because we didn't communicate with each other on a regular basis, but after a while I saw other women outside with injuries in the same area, so I gradually became aware of it. As I became more aware of it, I saw more similar cases, but since there were more women than men in number, I wondered if it had something to do with gender, but it remained unclear. One day, however, I saw the same thing myself and came to understand.
The injury was caused by a motorcycle.
The cause of this calf scarring, it appears, was due to the motorcycle. One is an accident caused by contact with a burnt muffler, where the leg is burned when dismounting or hitting a parked motorcycle.
Another accident occurs when the front wheel of the following motorcycle hits the front (your) motorcycle where your legs are on the ground.
In urban areas such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, traffic jams of motorcycles occur during rush hours, and the space between motorcycles is very narrow. If you are not careful, it is common for the front wheel of the motorcycle behind you to hit the rear wheel of your own motorcycle. If you are unlucky, you can get hit in the leg when you are stopped. I had the same thing happen to me a few years ago and injured the same spot. I was wearing jeans at the time, but the skin still peeled and bled.
I also mentioned earlier that I think it is more common among women than men, but I think the reason is that Vietnamese women are more likely to be barefoot, so if they are injured, the wound tends to be deeper and leave a mark, and because they are more likely to be barefoot than men on a daily basis, it is more noticeable.
I had wondered why people commonly injure themselves in such places, but I came to realize it through my own experience. It is very typical of Vietnam that the cause was motorcycles and traffic jams, or is this just another culture?
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Takuma Inada
Representative of SESSA VIETNAM CO.
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After working in Vietnam for 7 years in the human resource field, he established SESSA VIETNAM, a human resource consulting company in 2021. In 2021, he established SESSA VIETNAM, a human resource consulting company. The company provides human resource consulting services for companies and job seekers, focusing on "recruitment", "labor consultation", and "work permit acquisition on behalf of clients".
He has made it a daily routine to observe Vietnamese people and think about the "why and what" of Vietnam. His motto is "If you do it, it will come to you.
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