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- Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!ntmtv!ntmtv!nguyenpd
- From: nguyenpd@ntmtv.UUCP (Phat Nguyen)
- Subject: RE: Should we help the Communists in Vietnam?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.192138.25343@ntmtv>
- Originator: nguyenpd@nmtvs315
- Sender: news@ntmtv
- Nntp-Posting-Host: nmtvs315
- Reply-To: nguyenpd@ntmtv.UUCP (Phat Nguyen)
- Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:21:38 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In Message-ID: <105917@netnews.upenn.edu> tungle@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Tung T. Le) writes:
-
- >I want to go back to VN to help the poor people when it is safe to do so.
-
- >I am in the US to get a good education & make some money. I don't intend to
- >make it a home. It is a land full of opportunity and that's what I am here for.
- >I don't need to change my skin color or my heritage to succeed.
-
- Bie^'t ro^`i! No'i mai~. Another typical case of economic refugee.
- Don't you think you contradict yourself by saying "I am in the U.S
- just to get a good education & make some money" and then saying "
- to go back to VN when it is safe to do so." Why are you afraid when
- you come to the U.S. just to get an education and make some money for
- the Communists? If you are here just for education or money, then I
- can guarantee you that it is perfectly safe for you to go back to
- Vietnam. The Communists need your money. Why don't you catch the
- earliest plane for Vietnam?? I guess the Communist comrades are waiting
- for you when they hear the news that you are bringing back some money
- from the U.S.
-
- >* Some people said why don't I go back to VN to make room for those waiting in
- >camps in Hong Kong to take my place. Now this is sheer stupidity on their part
- >because they know full well that the US doesn't let people exchange places.
- >No matter how many of us return to VN, no new people can come if they don't
- >meet strict INS criterias.
-
- Ivy League education??? But really don't understand what these people
- say nicely. They mean that you made those people who escape
- Vietnam because they are desperate for freedom from the Communists look
- bad. Your actions turn them into "tro` cu+o+`i cu?a thie^n ha."
-
- >* Some people asked me what did I sworn to do when I assume US citizenship.
- >I simply swear that I would defend the US. But going back to help poor people
- >in Vietnam in no ways violates this promise. I don't intend to work for the
- >Vietnamese's gov but for the poor people in the villages. So, it is irrelevant.
- >(to tell you the truth, I took US citizenship out of convenience in travel
- >documents rather than out of feeling really loyal to the US. But, I promised;
- >so I'll defend the US).
-
- Insincere promise, insincere promise, insincere promise. Assuming
- U.S. citizenship just for your own convenience. I really don't know
- what other Americans who read soc.culture.vietnamese think about you
- when you tell them this.
-
- -- Phat --
-