Vietnam's Reading Culture & Another Viewpoint on Folk Wisdom

It's our 50th episode! As unabashed bibliophiles, we care and think about book culture and trends a lot. In our first segment, we discuss what we’ve observed in light of a pretty terrifying survey of reading rates in Vietnam (2:18). Then (20:33), we talk about idioms. While these pithy phrases are an important part of Vietnamese culture and help transmit and reflect important values, they can sometimes be problematic. As always, we end with Bánh Mì Banter (37:44).