Indiference or unequality?

Even when Vietnam is one of the smallest countries from the 3rd world, it's people is trying to make it popular overcoming their violent past and all their war's sequels. They are showing to the world it's rich culture and also it's big advances not only in war issues. With this goal on mind, some of them are fighthing to be famous in many different fields and many others became famous just for "default".

Ho Chi Ming never want to be famous while he was searching the independence for his country, but now he has a town with his name and we can found information about him, monuments, festivals and all kind of homages all over.In the other hand, cosmonaut Pham Tuan traveling to the space, do a lot of things to improve Vietnamese proud, but he doesn't receive the same attention.

It seems that vietnamese people only care about war and all that refers to that, leaving behind other people who work hard too doing a lot in culture, changing the point of view of those who think in destruction when heard the word Vietnam. The articles are very good, giving us important information, but we found many pages of Ho Chi Ming but not about Pham Tuan, i believe that's unequality and indiference.

Minh and Tuan, two different ways of write history

Ho Chi Minh and the cosmonaut Pham Tuan became important in not an easy way, both give more than they have to give, putting into risk their own lives in different ways. While the first go to the war, the second traveled to the space.

Ho is most famous for leading the Viet Mihn independence movement in 1941, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. He led the North Vietnamese in the Vietnam War until his death. Six years later, the war ended with a North Vietnamese victory, and Vietnamese unification followed. The former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor. In the other hand, during his time in orbit in 1980, cosmonaut Tuan performed experiments with mineral samples and plant experiments on azolla. Tuan also took pictures of Vietnam from orbit for the purpose of mapping.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNhochiminh.htm

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/space/phamtuan.html
Pictures taken from:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNhochiminh.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pham_Tuan