[Vnbiz] Building the American-Vietnamese friendship and understanding

[Rajakumar sankar]

Dear Hoanh,


I am happy to  hear that you are thinking of a people to people interaction
through informal mechanisms. I would suggest that it would be use full to
find  NGO's in  US and Vietnam. These identified NGO's ( More number of
NGO's to be identified in Vietnam) can start in festival of vietnam in USA .
And similarly In vietnam  festival of USA can be organised. The Vietnamies
in USA can promote this and they can decied collectively as to what aspect
vietnam they want to expose in these festivals. A club by name friends of
Vietnam can be promoted in USA- this could be do celeberate the festivals
and also appreciate the vietnam culture and people.  Theater from vietnam
can also be performed, exchange program of people betwen Vietnam and USA can
be worked out.

I appeal to all the vietnames in USA to take up these activities as a
priority.

Wishing both the country people to understand each other and exchange peace
and development in all sphere of life.

Thanks for reading my views,

Giving Ideas is easy making it happen is very difficult,

I am ready to take uop any responsibility given to me in this direction as a
person love peace and development of people as equals and partners in
development.


Regards


Rajakumar

On 6/11/07, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear CACC,
>
> I have been thinking about this issue for a while, but I am reluctant
> about writing this down, because every time I come up with an idea for
> action, I am afraid that I will have to run the project (I have tons of
> projects already on my hands).  Anyway, I have always felt that the US-VN
> understanding should be increased, especially from the US side.  The
> Vietnamese in general know the US well, but the American don't know Vietnam
> well.  Most of them, including the politicos in Washington, still think of
> Vietnam more as a war than as a beautiful country with a wonderful people.
>
> So how do we help improve the mutual understand between the two
> countries?  In this family alone, we have Vietnamese American, we have
> Vietnamese students in the US, we have many Vietnamese with superb English.
> Over the years, Vietnam has many US alumni, i.e. graduates of US
> universities. So can we come up with simple mechanism to do that?
>
> I know that there is government-run US-Vietnam Society (Hoi Viet My)  in
> Hanoi and its leaders (anh Vu Xuan Hong, anh Hoang Cong Thuy, anh Pham Khac
> Lam ,etc..) are actually my personal friends.  But I am talking about a
> people-based mechanism ( i.e., non-government).  And I don't like the idea
> of a typical 503(c) organization with all kinds of fund raising activities
> and reports, because you spend most of your daily life doing fundraising and
> writing reports!!!  (But if you like the idea of 503(c), fine with me!).  I
> am thinking about a network of friends focusing on things that make
> the American and the Vietnamese love each other more.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Hoanh
>
> --
> Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
> Washington DC
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