There is nothing to talk about for your first part since yours is just agreeable with what I have written.
Second, about vietnam's and korean's intention to cut themselves from china culture's influence, that is quite obvious. For example, both tried to remove the teaching of Chinese from their educational systems during the recently decades. For example, SK is even paranoid that it wants to replace all the Chinese letters with korean letters, even change its capital's name from hancheng (a name used for thousand of years) to shouer (a similar pronunciation close to its english name seoul)
Without knowing Chinese, a lot of korean students nowadays do not even know how to pronounce words in their literature since a lot of their important literature were written in Chinese at least until the earlier 20th century. It seems the same is done in vietnam as well.
As far as English teaching, well, China indeed has put it in an important role. However, you seem to have forgotten that nowadays more and more foreigners are learning Chinese since the China's revival happens just so fast. It just took 30 years for China to race back to the front again. Maybe another 10 to 15 years, China will be No. 1 again, the position it has taken for most of the past 2000 years.
BTW, didn't you have a great number vietnam students in China's universities as well? Haven't you sent a great number of your military officers to China for training during your independence, anti-french, anti-U.S. wars period???
As for China's threat, well, if China really wants to be your threat, you think China is that nice to you now??? At least, what I can think of is that China can simply shut down all of the trades with vietnam, stop sending electricity to vietnam, stop all investment into vietnam and punish any Chinese companies that do business with vietnam. By doing that, I call that China's threat.
It seems that you take that word "threat" too lightly. As for working with U.S., and Russia as well as India, well, it is your freedom. However, look at U.S. and Russia's track records, it seems that they can use you and dump you at any time. Look at those loyal followers of U.S. and Russia before??? How about Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq and etc.... they have all followed one or the other country for quite some time but in the end got betrayed just like that.
U.S. is not your neighbor but China is. Well, I am curious since when acting tough against China has proven to be a good strategy for a country like vietnam, or korea historically???
In the end, as for my respect towards korean or vietnam, it has almost gone down to zero. As hundreds of thousands of Chinese died in korea to defend them, tens of thousand Chinese gave up their lives in vietnam during WWII, anti-french, anti-US war periods, it seems both countries have forgotten that and removed that from their history books. All the fight were carried by themselves. Good job. Such 数典忘祖，忘恩负义 bastards, should I have any respect for them at all???
Star√ation;2374770 said:
At the time the Manchurian took control over China, Chinese cultural, institutional system was quite superior to theirs, thus it would be suicidal if not adopting Chinese's.
One of the extraordinary unique characteristics of the Chines civilization is about your absort-ibility. The Han Chinese gained and expanded their civilization not through effort of wars but mostly from cultural exchanging and aborting.
Well, we're not Vet, Viet or else. We're Vietnamese. Treat other with respect you shall receive more in return. Calling someone with their exact name is the way to show your respect.
Vietnamese culture is a mixture in which Chinese culture play the leading role. Not only that, Vietnamese people nowadays must be successors of ancient local Vietnamese and Chinese.
Huh, Vietnamese writing system, it has nothing to do with French, it was up to Spanish missionaries.
Vietnamese did not try to cut itself from Chinese culture. Chinese literature, movie, music.. are quite popular in Vietnam. It's just because Chinese culture is not an optimal tendency anymore. You see that, everyone in the Earth now learn English, drink Coca Cola and watch Hollywood movie, even China itself wants to be a second US, the place where most Chinese elite class choose to be their home in future is the US, UK, Singapore.
But illiterate in Chinese now leaves a huge gap between this generation and our culture, the Vietnamese government as I know gonna have some plan for teaching Chinese. But it was to busy and to preoccupied with China's threat over the South China Sea in dealing with China, the US, the ASEAN, the Vietnamese public, the Vietnamese media...
I prefer a small home rather than a huge hell.
