From: ltran@lsil.com (Linh T. Tran x4900)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Re: VI: The uncertainty of investment in VN
Date: 13 Nov 92 07:23:40 GMT
Reply-To: ltran@lsil.com
Organization: LSI Logic Corporation
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I don't think so. There is a lot of difference right now in economic sense:
the Communists practice feudalism by deviding the country into patches of
territory. And since they restrict the freedom of movement (although it is
improving now, we must admit), the difference in term of economy is remarked.
However, I don't think we, as humans, hate each other.

If you come to know the Vietnamese well, you will see that we speak the same
language. And although there are regional accents, it is still the same 
culture, the same set of values. And that is important to prevent internal 
wars. 

Also, the 17 years after the War is more than enough to show the people in the
North that they were cheated by their government. They were told during the
war that the South are poor, much poorer than themself. So much propaganda that
they believe in the South, people don't have a bowl to eat rice with, and
use coconut shell as bowls. And in 1975, in gesture of friendship when they 
visit relatives in the South: they brought their own bowl to give. And you know
the results. Many returned North with a dosen of China Set as gifts from 
the people in the South. 

That was among the few things. So many people went to the South after 1975,
and returned with story of big city, busy business, plenty of marchendize
(scarce to the eye of us, Westerners, but full in the eyes of the North 
Vietnamese).

And the people in the South don't see anymore that the Northern accent is
a threat from the enemy. They saw that the people in the North was cheated,
and victim of circumstances just as they are.

I think Vietnamese fought the war because we was caught into the global 
chess game. And since there was idiology envolved, we had to take side.
But if the communist came down, there is still less reason to fight.

But I do have reserve on this. The new democracy must be nurtured the right
way until it is strong enough to be the leader of the nation. There could
be groups that will take advantages of the new situation and separate Vietnam
into regions. But that is also the main criticism I made to the current 
government: unless they do something right now, they are breaking the bone
of Vietnam.



Dave Kohr (drk@melodian.cs.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Nov11.184352.15326@news.media.mit.edu> vinsight@netcom.com
: writes:
: >Communist regimes such as the one in Hanoi are doomed.  The question is:
: >how will it fall?  We would all want it to be peaceful like in Eastern
: >Europe.
: 
: Peaceful?  I guess that depends on whether or not you regard the former
: Yugoslovia as being in Eastern Europe.
: 
: But along these same lines, is there any reason to think that any sort of
: geographic break-up of Vietnam into North and South (and maybe even Center)
: could occur again if the regime in Hanoi falls or stumbles?  The more I
: learn about Vietnam, the more important its regional differences become
: apparent.
: -- 
: Dave Kohr     CS Graduate Student     Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
: Work: 3244 DCL, (217)333-6561  Home: (217)359-9350  E-mail: drk@cs.uiuc.edu
:                    "One either has none or not enough."

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Linh Tran
ltran@lsil.com
of course, it is only my opinion.
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