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| | Pham Duy and Vietnamese History |
 | | In earlier eras, political divisions, regional rivalries, feudalistic notions of loyalty, and, most recently, the Communist - Nationalist chasm, had all worked to prevent expressions of cultural and spiritual unity. |
 | | In this song, as in all his other work, Phạm Duy seeks to speak directly to all classes of people in the nation without using any political or religious path whatsoever to approach them. |
 | | While most of his compatriots, under the pressure both of world politics and feudal habit, have been running to peripheral locations from which they hurl invective at the occupants of other peripheral locations, Phạm Duy has remained, with relaxed insouciance, in the center, driving people nuts by smiling and waving at anyone and everyone. |
| www.uky.edu /Centers/Asia/SECAAS/Seras/2005/Henry.htm (5517 words) |
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