Vietnamese people
The Vietnamese are a group of people with their own culture living in Southeast Asia. Most Vietnamese live in the country of Vietnam, although there are many Vietnamese people living in other places. Many Vietnamese people speak Vietnamese.
History
The Vietnamese people could be a mixture of different groups from different parts of Asia.
According to legend, the Vietnamese people are the children of a dragon and a fairy.
Many Vietnamese girls and women were trafficked into China in the 19th century.[1][2] Chinese pirates in the Tonking Gulf region took Vietnamese women as wives.[3] In the Gulf of Tonkin Vietnamese pirates were defeated in 1409 and 1373 by the Ming Chinese navy and the Ming navy frightened Vietnam from invading Champa in 1403 and defeated Vietnam in 1407 in the Red river delta.[4] Chinese pirate and bandits operated in the highlands of Tonkin in French Indochina.[5]
Religion
Most Vietnamese practice a mixture of Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and animism.
A minority of Vietnamese are Catholic Christians.
Vietnamese people outside of Vietnam
There are millions of Vietnamese people living outside of Vietnam. The United States has the number population of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. Many Vietnamese people left the country after the Vietnam War. They did not want to live in a Communist country.
Vietnamese People Media
Map of the Vietnamnese Diaspora in the world. (The map might include people with Vietnamnese citizenship)* Vietnam*
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Người Việt 𠊛越 (Vietnamese people) written here in the book, 大南國史演歌 Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca
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One of the traditional costumes of Vietnamese people
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Vietnamese bureaucrat officials, 1883–1886
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Vietnamese mandarins in front of the imperial palace in 1939.
Vietnamese soldiers in 1972
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Map of the countries with a significant Vietnamese population
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Congregation of the Mother Coredemptrix in Carthage, Missouri
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Ethnolinguistic groups of Mainland Southeast Asia
References
- ↑ Lessard, Micheline (2015). Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam (illustrated ed.). Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series: Routledge. ISBN 978-1317536215.
- ↑ United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1990). Daily Report: People's Republic of China, Números 127-133. National Technical Information Service. p. 51.
- ↑ ANTONY, ROBERT J. (2014). "Violence and Predation on the Sino-Vietnamese Maritime Frontier, 1450–1850". Asia Major. Academia Sinica. 27 (2): 104. JSTOR 44740552.
- ↑ Lo, Jung-pang. (1958). "The Decline of the Early Ming Navy". Oriens Extremus. Harrassowitz Verlag. 5 (2): 150. JSTOR 43383349.
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).