unpopularity of the Diem’s regime‚ Operation Phoenix and many more. One of the key explanations as to why the Vietcong gained support was down to the attraction of Communism. The Vietnamese peasant’s lifestyle fitted with the concept of Communism. Communism was all about equality and fairer distribution‚ since majority of the Vietnamese population were farmers‚ harvesting was done communally. The people of South Vietnam could easily adapt to the principles of Communism therefore the support for Vietcong increased
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education. Before French rule 80 per cent of Vietnamese were literate in Chinese but by the end of 1940 only 20 per cent of boys were at school and a much smaller per cent of girls.
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located in south-west Sydney‚ New South Wales and is part of the City of Fairfield government area. The largest Vietnamese community in Australia is found in Cabramatta (source). According to the 2011 Census of Population and Housing of Cabramatta conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (footnote)‚ of the 22‚676 total responses‚ 6‚330 people listed their heritage as being Vietnamese‚ with only 29 stating that both parents were born in Australia. These numbers are also comparable with the total
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The Vietnam conflict began in the late 19th Century. France forcefully took ownership of the islands and made the Vietnamese islands a protectorate of France. The Viet Minh‚ or the League Of Independence was formed sometime around 1940. They were a group of people seeking independence from France. The French Government opposed this action and decided to try and stop the Viet Minh from advancing their political ideals into the rest of Vietnam. In the city of Dien Bien Phu‚ the Viet Minh surrounded
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mother‚ Mrs. Bonnie Clutter‚ a daughter‚ Nancy Clutter‚ and a son‚ Kenyon Clutter. The Clutter’s live in Holcomb‚ Kansas. They wake up on November 14‚ 1959 not knowing it will be their last day. In the morning Nancy answers the phone‚ it’s a girl‚ Jolene Katz‚ who wants to learn how to make a cherry pie. Nancy is the best cherry pie maker in Holcomb. Nancy agrees to teach Jolene. Once Nancy is done teaching Jolene she leaves her with her mom‚ Bonnie‚ so Nancy can go help another girl with a musical
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Blue Dragon Festival (Zhonghe Festival)‚… Vietnamese has many holidays such as Hung Kings’ Temple Festival‚ Mid-Autumn Festival‚ Vu Lan Festival‚ Ba Thien Hau Pagoda Festival‚ Welcoming the Lord Whale Festival‚ the death anniversary of the founder of jewelry‚… Among them‚ Tet is the most important and popular holiday. Because Vietnam is a country in the Eastern hemisphere that was influenced by China for many years‚ the Chinese New Year and Tet‚ the Vietnamese New Year has many similarities. Tet often
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focus this assignment on the Aboriginal and Vietnamese cultures. I hope to be working in an area which will have these two cultures as the dominant groups. The reason I have focussed on Vietnamese refugees instead of the culture of Vietnam as a whole is that the facility I hope to work in has refugees as its main client group. I will give an overview of my research into how best to work in a counselling relationship with people from Aboriginal and Vietnamese cultures‚ ensuring that I am as culturally
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from your culture. Vietnam has unique culture‚ custom‚ and tradition. People in Vietnam are really nice; they always have wide smiles on their lips and welcome people all over the world to visit the beauty of their culture. The most important to Vietnamese people is their family. Family means home‚ and home is a place that they can trust in and feel comfortable to live with. In a family‚ the father is the one who is the most powerful‚ strong and hard working. The father pretends to be the householder
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kingdom. The word Viet he derived from the traditional name for the Vietnamese imperial domain and its people in what is now northern and central Vietnam. Nam (south) had been added to acknowledge the expansion of the dynasty’s domain into lands to the south. The Chinese objected to this new name because it was the same as an ancient state that had rebelled against Chinese rule. They therefore changed it to Viet Nam. Vietnamese officials resented the change and it did not attain public acceptance
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gets snowfall”. In Vietnam‚ 1968 begun with Pope Paul VI declaring January 1 as a day of peace. The pope had persuaded the South Vietnamese and the American Allies to extend twelve hours to their twenty four hour truce. They followed the pope’s wishes‚ but ten minutes after the clock struck midnight‚ a unit of Viet Cong caught the South Vietnamese
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