Status Jockeying

and female games in a household with more than one wife/concubine.

More Observations from Linh Dinh

on Vietnam, identity, loyalty, the Chinese, and Israel.

Man, War and Nation

One Possible Component of Identity

One's home village, even if its size prevents it from being a village... That sort of rootedness can be a subjective component of identity but it is not the same as an actual community, which is an even better cause of identity.

Provincial Taxonomy by Linh Dinh

Endless Movement of People

Leads to... Endless Culture War by Linh Dinh

"Miss Cambodia and Miss Vietnam made international news when they were idiotically mocked by Miss USA for not knowing English. The Vietnamese beauty, H’Hen Nie,"

E! Online

A Sure Sign of Decadence

Asia News: Đặng Thị Ngọc Trinh becomes Vietnam’s first woman president by Joseph Manh Hung

UR: A Common Culture Makes the Nation by Linh Dinh

A Vietnamese Perspective on China

Tet Offensives, Hungry China and Dumbed Down Americans by Linh Dinh

Industrious and Family-Oriented

But that sort of "natural conservatism" is not enough, when the host population is not put on the same level as other ethnic Chinese, and there is no real integration into the host society. The Chinese diaspora is envied and regarded with suspicion by host populations, and for good reason. When the Chinese disapora gains too much control over commercial wealth, things can get deadly, and there is a good reason why one of the 16 Points of the Alt Right addresses this. (It is not applicable only to the Pharisee diaspora.)

The Chinese in Southern Vietnam by Linh Dinh

Asia Times: Vatican, Vietnam sacrifice a holy man

Following a meeting between Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Trieta and Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet, the controversial archbishop of Hanoi who led protest vigils calling for the return of government-confiscated church properties and greater religious freedoms, resigned, citing health reasons. Signs point to a cozy quid pro quo between the Vatican and Hanoi. - The Hanoist