[Vnbiz] Doing politics in the Vietnamese spirit

[Dieu Nguyen]

Dear brother Hoanh,

Thank you for sharing your ultimate honest answer. My question is more
tilted towards finding a solution to public policies regarding Vietkieu. If
we do not unite, achieving any success as a people/country will be very
hard.

Dieu

On 6/8/07, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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> Dear sister Dieu & CACC,
>
> You understand me well.  And your question is very good.
>
> As a matter of public policy, the government need to work with the
> Vietkieu community as much as it can, to improve relations as much as it
> can.
>
> But let me bring it to a very personal level and give you my ultimate
> honest answer, as a matter of my own heart:
>
> I know that I cannot control anyone's heart.  I have enough trouble
> controlling my own heart--many times I get angry even though I want to be
> calm.
>
> I cannot make others love me and I don't even try to make anyone love me.
> Trying to work on others' hearts is a futile attempt most of the time.
> Instead I try to love others the best I can, constantly, all the time.  I
> may not succeed in such attempt, because many times I would be so upset that
> I act like I just want to knock their head off.  But at least, I seriously
> try to love people as much as I can spiritually, with all my human
> weaknesses.
>
> Whether they love me or not is their business, not mine.
>
> Does this answer your question, sis Dieu?
>
> Hoanh
>
>
> On 6/8/07, Dieu Nguyen <dieu.m.nguyen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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> >
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> > Dear anh Hoanh,
> >
> > It seems like you have a particular set of audience in mind for this
> > note, which I assume to be those who live, study or have regular contact
> > with foreign countries.
> >
> > I agree with anh Hoanh that we cannot and should not worship either
> > Western power or their good will.  I agree that there are people who
> > continue to fight the futile war and to look at the past instead of the
> > present.
> >
> > All Vietnamese are brothers and sisters. It is a righteous principal and
> > I want to believe in it but there is a distance between theory/ideology and
> > reality. And the reality is there are many brothers and sisters who don't
> > like us (as us I mean to say Vietnamese who are currently living in VN) and
> > who want to fight agaisnt us. What should we do to reconcile with them, to
> > make them treat like brothers and sisters as they are ought to be?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dieu Nguyen
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
> > Washington DC
>
>
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