http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/article_2467.jsp Comments for "Who are the Vietnamese today?, Sophie Quinn-Judge " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/article_2467.jsp <p>Vietnam today is balanced between the old collectivist traditions of east Asia and the borderless world of global culture and cyberspace. Vietnamese identity is perhaps more than ever linked to language and its <a href="http://www.askasia.org/teachers/Instructional_Resources/Materials/Readings/Vietnam/R_vietnam_5.htm" target="_blank">poetry</a>, as opposed to political affiliations. The thirtieth anniversary of the end of the “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Vietnam" target="_blank">Republic of Vietnam</a>” (the separate South Vietnamese state) sees diehard members of the pre-1975 Saigon military and civil service demonstrating in Washington DC, to commemorate what is for them a day of national sorrow. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/article_2467.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/article_2467.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/article_2467.jsp#comment asia &amp; pacific democracy &amp; power Creative Commons normal politics of protest Sophie Quinn-Judge Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:00:00 +0100 2467 at http://www.opendemocracy.net