My impression of DrTran is that this person analyses and challenges history like a professional historian - he literally opens my mind on some Vietnamese history issues I would never have thought about.
The person's writing style, both in Vietnamese and English, proves a sophisticated and highly educated mind.
The amount of knowledge contained in his posts are so vast I wager that the "Ivies graduate" claim has to be 99% true. You have to read A LOT in order to make such claims as
Phải chăng đánh đuổi Pháp là sai lầm lớn của Việt Nam?
Bottom line is, just putting the letters "Dr" doesn't make you a doctor anymore than going to the church makes you a Christian. Do you think Dr Albert Einstein really is a doctor?
On the other hand, DrTran's claim to be a "doctor" only further reinforces the weight carried with his posts. TuongLaiVietNam, for example, is a PhD, but I don't feel as much weight in his words as in someone whom I already know is a doctor.
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I believe only people with no lives get obsessed about some virtual identities, so much that they HAVE to keep saying spiteful and malicious things to satisfy their lame desires of degrading others.
Seriously, in this cyber world I never even bother what some "online ID" say ABOUT THEMSELVES.
I don't give a sh*t if DrTran or whoever else made 700 million USD or graduated from Yale and Cornell. Heck, even I can brag about how stunningly beautiful my blond girlfriend is, or how much money I've made over the year. All this information, however, cannot be confirmed - they can be easily made up or exaggerated; and above all, they add NOTHING to the discussion.
So why can't you just ignore them and focus on the person's points, instead of their irrelevant personal information? We come here NOT to know about someone's personal lives, but rather to exchange and extend our knowledge of politics, economics, history, geography, etc. So if you find an arrogant boaster or even liar on this online board, the best thing you can do is IGNORE him. No need to scream out loud "Look everyone, I find a liar here!!!"
Your attempt in "debunking" an ONLINE identity just makes you look like a bunch of no-life pathetic and jealous losers to me. Seriously, stop hating, stop making spiteful, scornful comments and you will automatically gain people's respect in a positive way.
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