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The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862–1874. Greenwood Publishing Group (1991). ISBN 978-0-275-93562-7. Randier, Jean. La Royale. Editions MDV (2006). ISBN 2-35261-022-2. Sondhaus, Lawrence. Navies in Modern World History. Reaktion Books (2004). ISBN 978-1-86189-202-7. Tạ, Văn Tài. The Vietnamese Tradition of Human Rights ...
Ancient and medieval Vietnam: judging the complicated nature of Vietnam and its country, especially Đại Việt, Vietnamese Emperors had conducted several assimilations; on one hand, this was done to the Tai and Hmong tribes within the country; on the other hand, ethnic assimilation was forced on the remaining ethnic groups, such as the ...
The Vietnamese American population grew significantly after 1975, when a large wave of South Vietnamese refugees arrived in the U.S. following the end of the Vietnam War. [8] Today, over half of Vietnamese Americans reside in California and Texas , particularly in metropolitan areas like Los Angeles , Houston , and San Jose .
French ambitions to subjugate Tonkin were opposed by the Qing dynasty, the region being part of the Chinese sphere of influence. The French eventually drove most of the Chinese troops out of Vietnam, but remaining groups in some Vietnamese provinces continued to resist France's control over Tonkin.
The culture of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Văn hoá Việt Nam, chữ Hán: 文化越南) are the customs and traditions of the Kinh people and the other ethnic groups of Vietnam. Vietnam is part of Southeast Asia and the Sinosphere due to the influence of Chinese culture on Vietnamese culture.
Diệm felt uncomfortable with the French influence and this made him pro-American because he believed that the U.S. as No.1 superpower could help Vietnam modernize and industrialize as well as help Vietnam's freedom and full independence, even though he considered Western liberal democracy to be not good for the Vietnamese at the time.
The French language's presence in Vietnam began in the 18th century when French explorers and merchants began sailing near the Indochina coast. When the French replaced the Portuguese as the primary European power in Southeast Asia in the 1790s by helping to unify Vietnam under the Nguyen Dynasty and later colonizing Southern Vietnam, they introduced the French language to locals.
In French Guiana, a small Vietnamese community originating from the refugee waves of the Vietnam War is found alongside a much larger Hmong population, of which some members originate from Vietnam. In French Polynesia, a small Vietnamese community forms part of the Asian community that is a minor percentage of the population, largely consisting ...