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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (146478)	9/27/2004 7:25:20 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Of course....unless you live in GST's bizarro world.....

To: Ish who wrote (146478)	9/28/2004 11:18:53 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

When you lose a war, and you are treated as a traitor for siding with a foreign enemy, and you flee your country, and your children never see that country and grow up seeing it through the eyes of their parents, you will find that expats have a view of Vietnam that is frozen in time, centered on what they lost when they found themselves on the losing side. Many years ago I hosted a high-level group from Vietnam -- the childrend of expats, now in their 20s and 30s came a public presentation. The Vietnamese gave an update on Vietnam. Then came the question and answer period. The first question came from a man in his 20s: "The only way young people can make a living in Vietnam is to sell their blood, when is the government going to put an end to this practice". One of the Vietnamese delegation asked him if he had ever been to Vietnam -- the question had to be translated because the young man did not really speak Vietnamese well enough to understand the question. He answered in English: "No, I have never been to Vietnam, but I know all about it from my parents". I know many Vietnamese expats, and they are uniformly among the least informed people on this subject because they are still living a nightmare called the Vietnam war -- a war that they paid dearly for when they sided with America and lost the war. They are often unsure of who they are -- not always easily accepted in America and certainly not accepted in Vietnam.