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Possible parallels between the Vietnam and Iraq wars, noted frequently in mainstream media, are not lost on America's large Vietnamese community.
Intimate memories of war and strong patriotism for America characterize Vietnamese American press reaction to the war in Iraq.
WESTMINSTER, Calif.--Barely 10 days into the war on Iraq, media pundits and army veterans began to speculate on whether the sands of Iraq could become the quagmire of Vietnam.
As headlines scream 'The New Vietnam, ' the parallels are not lost on the million-plus Vietnamese American community, most of whom fled to the United States after the fall of Saigon in 1975..
and British troops having trouble distinguishing civilians from Iraqi guerillas resurrects 'ghosts of Vietnam' for columnist Son Dien, writing in the Viet Bao newspaper, in Southern California's Orange County.
But Dien warns that it might be premature to think Iraq is about to metamorphose into Vietnam-style guerilla warfare.
California is home to the largest Vietnamese population outside Vietnam, about half a million.
Here, amidst bustling strip malls with street signs in Vietnamese, in karaoke bars, pho restaurants and dentists' offices, support for the war is strong..


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Vietnamese Language at SAIS
As of 2005-06 eight students were studying Vietnamese.
SAIS offers beginning, intermediate, and advanced instruction in Vietnamese.
T he Vietnamese language has an interesting history.
With the ending of Chinese rule in the early part of the 10th century AD, Vietnamese culture developed independently.
With the arrival of French colonial rule in the 19th century, the Vietnamese encountered Western civilization for the first time; an encounter which added yet another dimension to Vietnamese civilization and literature.
S ince 1994, more than 30 officials from the Vietnamese Ministries of Foreign Affairs, National Defense, Public Security, and staff of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party have studied at SAIS for the two-year M.A.

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Sale of Viet Mercury Troubles Bay Area Vietnamese
Thailand trial opens for Viet Am accused of trying to bomb Hanoi's embassy.
Sale of Viet Mercury Troubles Bay Area Vietnamese The sale of a newsweekly once deemed a promising partnership between mainstream media and an ethnic community could leave Vietnamese in Silicon Valley without an important news source.
Some community members believe money from Vietnam is behind the sale.
SAN FRANCISCO - Oct 26, 2005 - Unlike some ethnic enclaves, the Vietnamese-American community in Santa Clara county, Calif., does not lack for news in its own language.
Three Vietnamese daily newspapers, half a dozen weeklies and several monthly magazines cater to a Vietnamese-American population of 125, 000, not to mention radio and television programs and an array of Web sites.
The largest of the weeklies, Viet Mercury, was owned by the San Jose Mercury News, which has a bureau in Hanoi and shared its content with its English daily, adding a wealth of original information, in a non-advocacy role, into the mix..
As one longtime Vietnamese reader in San Jose put it recently, "You read the Viet Merc and the San Jose Mercury News for information.
That unique mix of editorial missions may be ending, however, as the San Jose Mercury News recently sold its Vietnamese-language weekly.

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Among the stops in Little Saigon were the Westminster headquarters of Nguoi Viet, the first Vietnamese daily newspaper in the U.S., where journalist Anh B.
Do, daughter of the paper's founder, introduced the group to Vietnamese culture.
At the Asian Garden Mall, Vietnamese food, clothing, toys and crafts were sampled.
Tram Le, performance artist and curator of the program "FOB, " which took place in fall 2002 under the auspices of the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association, introduced two of the forty artists whose work was included in this exhibition, film and performance series..
The last stop of the day was the Buddhist temple in Garden Grove, where monk Thich Phap Chau spoke about the role of spirtuality and religion in the Vietnamese community.
The Vietnamese banquet that followed ended a day of cultural immersion, and prompted lively discussions about cultural differences in the classroom, pedagogical challenges and appropriate responses.
Kim-Trang Tran Nguoi Viet Online "Reclaiming Insults: ‘F.O.B.’ suggests we’re all in the same boat" (OC Weekly) .

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