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'Faces of Vietnam' Photo Exhibition
1. Faces of Vietnam
My name is David
I’m a Fulbright scholar (cultural exchange)
My photo display in November 2006: ‘Faces of Vietnam’
My message: ‘Vietnam is no longer a war;
It’s a country with people’
4. Faces of Vietnam
How big is Vietnam?
•About the size of the New Mexico state;
•Population: 82 Mil (a bit less than one third
of the U.S. population)
•S shaped like ‘two rice baskets at the end of a
pole’
5. Faces of Vietnam
What are the most salient features of Vietnam?
Economic reform underway since 1986 with impressive progress:
Economic growth: 8% on average since 1990s.
From famine to world exporter: rice, coffee, pepper…
Over 20 millions of people lifted out of poverty since 1990s.
Income per capital: $600/year or $3400 (PPP).
6. Faces of Vietnam
What are the most salient features of
Vietnam?
•Political regime: One party (communist) with a market
economy;
•Religion: majority Buddhist but important catholic
community (No2 biggest in Asia after the Philippines); almost
non-existent Muslim.
•Culture: Confucianism, Taoism, ancestor worship
7. Faces of Vietnam
How ‘normal’ the relationship between Vietnam and
the U.S.?
Relationship frozen between 1975 and 1995.
Since 1995: gradual normalization
opening of embassies
bilateral trade agreement. VN products found in
supermarkets: shoes, textiles, clothing, fisheries…
U.S. imports from Vietnam soared from 50 mil in 1994 to
1,900 mil in 2005 or 30 times.
8. Faces of Vietnam
How ‘normal’ the relationship between Vietnam and
the U.S.?
•Exchange of state visits
APEC Summit in
Hanoi, November 2006
9. Faces of Vietnam
Anything else?
War related issues:
•Missing in actions (MIA): US troops: 2,000 in Indochina;
Vietnamese: 300,000
•People still get killed or injured by unexploded mine
10. Faces of Vietnam
•Disagreement over human rights and religious freedom.
•Exploration of security relations to cope with China’s
expanding influence in South East Asia.
11. Faces of Vietnam
Where is Vietnam heading?
•Over one thousand years fighting Chinese, Japanese,
Cambodian, French, American: VN finally at peace!
•First generation in 100 years grown up into adulthood
without foreign occupation or the sound of battle.
•Reconcile market economy with ideological orthodoxy;
Will economic reform lead to political reform?