[Vnbiz] Nha Trang Bay

Thu Jun 7 15:14:33 PDT 2007

Welcome back from your European adventure.
Please share the 3 most important/impressive things from this trip.
The idea of "what comes out of the right heart will be right" is an 
attractive, but somewhat Utopian notion.  That's not to say that it's 
wrong, just that it is too subjective by itself to be reliable and 
predictable.  Many of Vietnam's previous generations really believed and 
followed their hearts but ended up with disastrous consequences or bitter 
disappointment.  They would have been better served listening to both 
their hearts and minds.
People everywhere has the right to petition their government, the 
difference is whether or not their government listen to them, which in 
turn directly depends on whether or not the people has the power to change 
those in power.  Culture plays a role, but there are more fundamental 
principles that transcend culture.  One of those principles is that no 
authority would willingly yield its power without a certain level of 
resistance.  In such an environment, raising your voice will ineviaby 
cause friction.  The critical difference between different system is 
whether or not violence is needed to affect changes in government.
Best,  HPP

"huong dang thu" <hdangthu at gmail.com> 
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Thanks bro and sis for the discussion, 

Thax bro Thien for your emotional writing about Nha Trang. I very like it 
:)

Thax bro Tuan, bro Tai, bro Hoanh, bro Craig, bro Phong, bro Thang for 
your different ideas about providing feedback to Vietnamese government. 
You all help me understand more about the issue. 
In my opinion, I have to say that I like this idea very much. I know that 
in US, people have right to petition to the government regularly, but not 
in VN. Yes. VN is different from US. VNese culture is different. We have 
lived long with one-way interaction (from above to below, from the King to 
the people, from the government to the people, I think). But I think Vn 
should learn from US about this. 
How can VN do that job? I don't know the exact answer. With me, the 
discussion here somehow does that job. Because I can learn that I should 
think about sth to communicate with the 
Government, which is the thing I have never think seriously in my life 
(because no one tells me so)!!

Many Vietnamese today want to do sth for our country. But i think that 
they really don't know how to make it. They don't know how to raise their 
voice peacefully but effectively. I pretty agree, "what comes out of the 
right heart will be right". What we do is only to build the better 
country. I believe in the future and I think we are making that future :). 
So why don't we keep talking, brain storming about some way to provide 
feedback to the Government, to build our two-way interaction 'talking and 
listening' between us, the people in general? 

Why not?

Wish my bro & sis happiness,
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