SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM

CAPITAL: Hanoi SURFACE: 329.560 km2 POPULATION: 79.939.014 LANGUAGES: Vietnamés (official language), English (favored more and more like second language), some speak the French, Chinese, and Khmer. ALFABETISMO: 93.7% total; 96.5% men; 91.2% women RELIGIONS: Buddhist, hoa hao, cao dai, indigenous, Muslim Christians (predominant Roman catholics, some protestants)

Thursday, September 20, 2007

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.

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