to atobe:
just like the thai people........can fight....got
muscles.........however brain not sure.i know they spend every
single cent they have.for centuries they haventy made much progress
in their jungle country,,,,,,,,,,,,they are crude in fact....like
ah beng.they are as clever as any ah beng...u need to werk wiv them
to see that they arent japanese.
never underestimate but i think they have a system that caters
to inmprove vietnamese people at all levels.singapore dun want that
as they say people wil get to powerful after he\lping them.tghey
have a system based on helpfulness to own people,,,maskes me wonder
or rather ashamed of wat singapore is doin to its own people!feel
like using 4 letter words on whoever messed up in singaoire
policy.
they are etnic chinese....so are the japs..laos
,,,cambodians..singaporeans...koreans...just the slight difference
in thinbkin...that differentiates each cateogory of
nationality.
Sometimes you should listen critically to the keen
observation of LKY who said that with the Mekong River as
the dividing line, those people living East of the Mekong are
clearly hardworking, industrious and are a focus lot
of ethnic groups as seen in the population living in
Vietnam, China, Korea and Japan.
While those living West of the Mekong River are seen
as idyllic, pastoral, apathetic, less energetic and less focus
- as seen in the population in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand,
Myanmar, and the natives in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Yes, those living in Korea and Japan are off-shoots of the early
tribal clans in China that migrated to these new countries to form
new tribes and new clans - which can be seen in the morphing of
their written words that had Chinese origin.
Do you seriously doubt that a group of Ah Bengs could have
defeated first the French and the Americans in the two wars that
lasted from 1950s till 1974 ?
They have the tenacity and intelligence to adapt and change with
the times, and the newer generations are now educated overseas in
Europe and the USA - with scholarships or private funds from
either their own family or from the community.
Unfortunately for Vietnam, since achieving peace in 1974
- they remain hamstrung by the need to maintain
some semblance of their political ideology in managing
their economy, while China had no qualms in separating political
ideology from managing their economy while keeping
it for governance.
Is Singapore afraid of progress in Vietnam ?
Singapore is helping the Vietnamese to
quietly move away from Communist ideology by providing
funds and scholarships to train their Civil Servants and
educate their most brilliant students in Singapore.
Singapore has also helped the Vietnamese in building industrial
parks that have all the infrastructural features similar to
Singapore, and have encouraged Government Linked Companies to
capitalise on the new relationships by investing inside
Vietnam.
All these are to help the Vietnamese to adapt and become
absorbed into the global market economy, and at the same time
creating opportunities for ourselves with the building of goodwill
in bilateral ties.
Vietnam has more then 60 percent of her population of
approximately 80 million that is below 30 years of
age, which makes it a potent force for change in the next
thirty to fifty years.
Many are educated up to university level, holding more then
one degree that are earned from local universities, and will
then take a third degree from some overseas universities in the
previous Russian Communist bloc.
There were many superb engineers that had returned to
Vietnam in the mid-1960s to contribute to the war effort, and
are now in their mid-40 to late-50s - and have creative engineering
skills and experiences.
If you have not lived or worked in Vietnam and immersed
yourself into their communities, do not judge them
superficially from some narrow local experience with
Vietnamese in Singapore.
The Vietnamese are prepared to sacrifice themselves for their
own people, and continue to do so to overcome hard times.
They can be considered a nation with true nationalism in their
hearts.
Can you do the same for your fellow Singaporeans ?
