Yeah, maybe. Tibetan Buddhists, depite currently being under Chinese occupation and opression, despite having their culture and way of life slowly eradicated - in other words despite having an easier time of it in decades gone by, they supposedly prefer the present because they realise that only in the present do we exist. And it's not a concept exclusive to Buddhism, many other religions and philosophies believe in the power of the present.
But I'm not sure this Vietnamese Buddhist shared the same philosophy:
