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People Of the 78 million people living in the country, 85 percent are what we refer to as Vietnamese. To the south, in the central highlands, are the Rhade and the Jarai peoples. Now the Vietnamese government is implementing programs to improve and develop communities, bring lowland Vietnamese people into the mountains, and educate the children of these Montagnards, while still allowing them to maintain their heritage. library.thinkquest.org /25734/data/culture/people.html   (621 words)

USCCB - (MRS) - Vietnamese The proudest moment for Vietnamese Catholics in diaspora was the canonization of 117 Vietnamese Martyrs in Rome on June 21, 1988, an event which drew 10,000 Vietnamese from around the world, although their fellow countrymen in the homeland were forbidden to attend. Vietnamese have a number of complex rituals in their traditional celebration of weddings, which are not strictly followed in this country. Vietnamese celebrate ancestral commemorations such as memorial day, which is a time of perpetual remembrance of parents and grandparents by their children. www.usccb.org /mrs/pcmr/ethnicities/vietnam.shtml   (1959 words)

Vietnamese people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt or người Kinh) are an ethnic group originating from what is now northern Vietnam and the southern People's Republic of China. The predecessors of the Vietnamese people emigrated from present southern China to the Red River delta and mixed with the indigenous population. As a result of the partition of North and South Vietnam, nearly one million Vietnamese migrated from the north to the south to escape actual or perceived persecution. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnamese_people   (798 words)

Vietnamese In Ancient Times The hypothesis that Vietnamese were "children of the dragon and grand children of the fairy" has always been cherished by the Vietnamese people through centuries. According to it, the Vietnamese took their origin from a bag of one hundred eggs born out by Au Co, a fairy married to a dragon, Lac Long Quan, the king of the Under-sea. The Vietnamese took their origin from a dragon - the leading of the four sacred animals - and a fairy symbolized by the bird they chose as their totem - a bird called "Lac" or "Hong", a kind of swan or sea bird, whose familiar figure decorated their dwelling. asiarecipe.com /vietorigin.html   (1207 words)

Traditions Vietnamese is basically a monosyllabic language having six tones, which give the language a sing-song effect. The Vietnamese family is composed of the parents, all children, and their in-laws, the gradparents, the great-grandparents, and also in some circumstances, uncles and aunts and their spouses, cousins, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and all in-laws. Vietnamese women are clever and outgoing, but they can become extremely shy when put in the spotlight. www.geocities.com /christine_quan/traditions.htm   (1198 words)

EthnoMed: Vietnamese Cultural Profile The Khmer (people of Cambodia) are thought to have migrated east from India, the Laotians came from the highlands of China's Yunan province, and the Vietnamese came south from the lower Yhangtze valley. Many people were displaced from their lives as rice farmers and forced to work under horrible conditions in rubber plantations and coal mines. In contrast, Vietnamese traditionally believe that human nature is basically good but corruptible; that man should strive for harmony with nature; they live oriented to the past, not the future; they are traditionally attached to one place, the ancestor's land; they value the process of being or becoming, mutual dependence and lineality. ethnomed.org /ethnomed/cultures/vietnamese/vietnamese_cp.html   (6263 words)

Sound system in Vietnamese Vietnamese is a isolating language, that is, one in which the words are invariable, and syntactic relationships are shown by word order, just as in the cases of Taiwanese and Chinese. Because of the great linguistic influence on Vietnamese, Vietnamese used to be regarded as a member of Sino-Tibetan language family, to which the Chinese language belongs. Traditionally, Vietnamese dialects were divided by Henri Maspero (1912) into two main groups: 1) the Haut-Annam group, which comprises numerous local dialects of the small villages stretching from the north of Nghe-an province to the south of Tha-thien province. www.de-han.org /vietnam/chuliau/lunsoat/sound   (959 words)

Vietnamese People moved in search of warmer climate, to be near a larger Vietnamese community, or in search of better jobs. A large number of Vietnamese people who came to Idaho in the 1980s were Chinese whose families had lived in Vietnam for anywhere from one to three generations. Several people mentioned that by the late 1980s, dances were organized on holidays and occasionally at other times of the year, as well as picnics and river floats in the summer. www.idbsu.edu /history/issuesonline/fall2005_issues/3f_vietnamese.html   (5404 words)

Saigon Info: Vietnamese People Nguoi Viet At present, when speaking of "the people of the south," we think of the inhabitants of the Mekong Delta. Though their mentality is different from that of the rest of the country, it is by no means secessionist. The Vietnamese population has always been made up of wet rice farmers working on submerged fields. www.saigoninfo.com /vanhoa/people.php   (805 words)

Vietnamese Cuisine Vietnamese people say their country resembles two baskets of rice on either end of a carrying pole. The Center, where Hue, the ancient capital of the Vietnamese kings is located, features a highly decorative, very spicy cuisine, reflecting the pleasures of the country's royalty and the abundance of spices this region's mountainous terrain affords. Vietnamese cooks believe so strongly in the superiority of this method, that they even simmer and stir-fry over this type of flame. www.angelfire.com /wi2/mayeshiba/Vietnam.html   (2399 words)

Vietnamese Religions The great majority of Vietnamese people regard themselves as Buddhists but not all of them actively participate in Buddhist rituals at the pagoda. It was this mystic aspect of Taoism that appealed to the common people of Vietnam. The religious belief of the common Vietnamese is a synthesis of the three traditional religions (Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism) which have been coexisting peacefully for centuries in Vietnam. asiarecipe.com /vietreligion.html   (1715 words)

Root Cause   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Vietnamese boat people are asylum-seekers who (i) fled the communist ruthless campaign to eliminate fundamental liberties, non-Marxist beliefs and ways of life, and (ii) risked their lives to escape to freedom on boats, vessels, rafts or floats after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The boat people’s active denunciation of Hanoi’s human rights violations and their spectacular successes in final-asylum democracies crystallize unequivocally their aspiration for liberty, which was the underlying cause of their flight. The boat people have risked their lives to flee ideological persecution and, in spite of their tragic experience at sea and its lasting adverse effects, they still possess the determination to voice their concerns about Hanoi’s serious human rights violations. www.danchu.net /TaiLieuDacBietDDDC/0.BoatPeopleHistory.IE.1.htm   (4154 words)

Cultural Diversity: Eating in America, Vietnamese, HYG-5258-95 Vietnamese are fond of fruits - bananas, mangos, papayas, oranges, coconuts, and pineapple. Vietnamese people tend to be excessively polite and delicate. The Vietnamese family structure is paternal spanning three generations and is the chief source of social identity. ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/5000/5258.html   (948 words)

Why I am thanking the Vietnamese people - Asia Finest Discussion Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) When people are in the kind of trouble you got yourself in, I hope no one asks "What are his opinions?", etc. and I hope we all do the right thing. People like Elysee respond to me on a rational, mature basis, correcting my errors and elaborating on what is correct. Im glad youve finally realized that directing hate or holding begrudgement against a certain race of people for something that an entire race of people shouldnt be held liable for is really an unworthy cause. www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=75479   (2400 words)

CNN In-Depth Specials - Vietnam at 25 A Vietnamese refugee is handed from a small boat to crewmen from the USS Durham in the South China Sea in April 1975 These were people that needed to be rescued and in that sense of the word it was different than many other migratory movements," Winter told CNN Interactive. The United States took in the large number of people it did largely for two reasons, Winter said -- a sense of guilt and a sense of loyalty toward the people it had walked away from in 1975, and thus a need to rescue them. edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/vietnam/story/boat.people   (1433 words)

Plea From a Simple Vietnamese by NguyenKhaPhamThanhChuong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Remember it is we, the people, who have fought hard and sacrificed in many different ways to force them, the Kings, Queens, Presidents, Generals, etceteras, to give in, give up, and give back our rights, our dignity, our life as free peoples. Today if you meet a Vietnamese exile in California or Texas you shouldn’t be surprised if he or she is apologetic for the USA, or even defends the atrocities that the USA committed during the War. But as a citizen of this planet of humankind, I owe too much to many people who have fought and sacrificed their lives for our rights of free speech, freedom of expression, to be silent. www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/chuong1.html   (1440 words)

Boat people Summary Boat people are frequently a source of controversy in the nation they seek to immigrate to, such as the United States, Canada, Italy, Spain and Australia. Boat people are often forcibly prevented from landing at their destination, such as under Australia's "Pacific Solution", or they are subjected to mandatory detention after their arrival. In 1979, Vietnam was at war (Sino-Vietnamese War) with the People's Republic of China (PRC), and many ethnic Chinese living in Vietnam, who felt that the government's policies directly targeted them also became "boat people." On the open seas, the boat people had to confront forces of nature, and elude pirates. www.bookrags.com /Boat_people   (2842 words)

Archive of Vietnamese Boat People 1- Vietnamese boat people is one of the biggest events not only in the current world history but also in the Vietnamese 4000-year history. Unless systematically and scientifically collected and archived otherwise only 10 or 20 years later when the first generation of the Vietnamese refugees pass by, when the workers in Vietnamese refugee camps pass by, then all the true stories about the Vietnamese Refugees will be burried permanently by time. To understand the root and the value of the living it is necessary for the future generations to know the undeniable true facts that their parent generations had www.vnbp.org /english/index2.htm   (466 words)

Vietnamese Cultural Background Vietnamese people like a synthetic food processing style that involves many materials and ingredients. The Vietnamese preferred to wear light, thin, well-ventilated kind of clothing that originated from plants and was suitable for such a tropical country as Vietnam, with grey, indigo and fl colours. It is not clearly stated, but Vietnamese people may be offended if your way of dressing doesn't show your respect in those places. www.traveltovietnam.com /Guide/General/Introduce/Country-People/custom-habit.asp   (571 words)

National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies As of the year 2000, there are 1,212,465 Vietnamese people living in the U.S. This includes those who identify themselves as Vietnamese alone and those who identified at least the Vietnamese group and at least one other race in the Census. California is the home of the most populated Vietnamese city in the U.S. The Los Angeles — Riverside — Orange County area has the highest concentration of Vietnamese people. About 12% of the total Vietnamese population attend college or graduate school — which is 140,647 Vietnamese people who are enrolled in a secondary education. www.navasa.org /stat_faq.htm   (519 words)

People's Daily Online -- Feature: Increased appetite of Vietnamese people for Chinese food Hoa is among many Vietnamese people who are loyal guests of restaurants selling Chinese food in the city. Some people come to the restaurants to eat their favorite food while others buy and take it out, or even cook Chinese dishes themselves. "Demand for dining out in Vietnam is increasing, because Vietnamese people now are richer than before, and more foreigners visit the country," Ngoc said, adding that a big number of her customers are tourists, or businessmen from China, the United States, India, and South Korea. english.people.com.cn /200508/29/eng20050829_205041.html   (703 words)

Asian-Nation : Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues :: Viet Nam -- Early History & Legends Many scholars and Vietnamese consider this to be the end of historical legend and the true beginning of modern Vietnamese history. Thus began the Vietnamese people's tradition of fighting to remain free and independent. Like the origins of the Vietnamese people and culture, the history of the Vietnamese language is also a mixture of different parts and components. www.asian-nation.org /vietnam-history.shtml   (1497 words)

Vietnamese fishermen shot dead by Chinese marine police Petition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) This Petition is created to collect signs of Vietnamese people all around the world for the "Vietnamese fishermen shot dead by Chinese marine police " case at the Beibu Gulf on Jan. 8th 2005. We, Vietnamese people, vehemently oppose the outrageous and brutal actions of Chinese marine police on innocent Vietnamese fishermen on January 8, 2005 at Beibu Gulf. Due to the level of violence that was inflicted upon Vietnamese innocent fishermen and callous actions of Chinese marine polices, who displayed a depraved indifference to human life, we demand that the Chinese government adequately compensate for lost lives and assets caused by the above-mentioned ungrounded killing and seizure of Chinese marine polices. www.petitiononline.com /hauloc/petition.html   (538 words)

People's Daily Online -- Chinese, Vietnamese leaders agree to further promote ties Chinese and Vietnamese top leaders agreed in Hanoi Thursday to comprehensively promote bilateral ties while adhering to the principles of long-term stability, future- orientation, goodneighborly friendship and overall cooperation. Hu spoke highly of Vietnam's achievements made by the Vietnamese people under the CPV's leadership and said he hoped that the Vietnamese people will build the country into a modern socialist industrialized one at an early date. Hu voiced his satisfaction with the development of bilateral relations and cooperation, and Manh expressed the Vietnamese side's pleasure at the extensive and in-depth development of bilateral cooperation in such fields as politics, economy, trade, culture, education, youth exchanges, science and technology. english.people.com.cn /200611/17/eng20061117_322317.html   (715 words)

Vietnam country - History of Vietnam - Vietnamese culture - Vietnamese national - Vietnamese people The Vietnamese nation was formed early in the history and often had to carry out wars of resistance against foreign invaders, which created a prominent cultural feature: a patriotism that infiltrated and encompassed every aspect of life. Vietnamese (kinh) is the official language of the country, although there are dialectic differences across Vietnam. Vietnamese cuisine is especially varied - there are said to be nearly 500 different traditional dishes that include exotic meats (but think twice before you eat a rare animal) and fantastic vegetarian creations (often prepared to replicate meat and fish dishes). www.vietventures.com /Side/country.asp   (5045 words)

Vietnamese People Cross Border River To Trade In Chinese Market An old Vietnamese lady hobbled down the track in Vietnam to the river and called for the Chinese ferryman who hauled himself across by means of ropes slung between the banks. There was quite a number of Vietnamese people in the Chinese market at Xuikou, men, women, children and even Vietnamese soldiers, the soldiers wearing their distinctive helmets. Many of the Vietnamese people selling their produce in the Xuikou market were women, but it was difficult to say whether these women were having a gossip or arguing. beifan.com /039xuikou/39xuikou.html   (593 words)

Vietnamese Zen - Zen History But they never knew the people's belief in Buddhism was the cause for Dien Hong congregation, where people set their mind to fight the enemy. This made it become the religion of Vietnamese people and they were not accused of being the traitors of Vietnam. We believe that Buddhism is a part of people's life therefore, the advancement of the people and Buddhism are the same. www.truclamvietzen.net /ZenHistory.htm   (2293 words)

Vietnamese Singer Biography - Dalena My first experience with the Vietnamese people was when my family and I went to a chinese restaurant to celebrate a birthday and were waited on by a Vietnamese waiter. After a time, I sang a chinese song for the owner of the Vietnamese restaurant (whom was of chinese/Vietnamese heritage), and he gave me a tape of a Vietnamese song (Qua Cau Gio Bay) to see if I could learn it. I've had to learn a lot, work hard and make many sacrifices but I am here because the Vietnamese people wanted me. Since I am a perfectionist when it comes to my singing and my soul is permanently connected to music, I can give nothing less then my all to it. www.vietscape.com /music/singers/dalena/biography.html   (1416 words)

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