1 o^ng Ta^y ye^u co^? nha.c Nam Bo^.
hailua
tuna
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM3sJ2cu15w&feature=player_embedded
hah haha
I love it.
This foreign singer learns by heart the 'Ca?i lu+o+ng" verses. That's
the plus sign for his Vietnamese skill language
He's probably than Steve D. in SCV (j/k) :-)))
tuna,
Vusu Tango
> On Mar 18, 6:49 pm, "hailua" <rangngu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM3sJ2cu15w&feature=player_embedded
>
> hah haha
>
> I love it.
That's
> the plus sign for his Vietnamese skill language
> He's probably than Steve D. in SCV (j/k) :-)))
>
> tuna,
That Ta^y a(n tra^`u can be a son of this man
http://www.vnnnews.net/first-foreigner-granted-vietnamese-citizenship
Last updated: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 |
Andre Menras, a retired French teacher, is honored to be the first
foreign man granted Vietnamese nationality in November 2009, with a
Vietnamese name Ho Cuong Quyet.
President Nguyen Minh Triet and Andre Menras.
July 25 1970 was a landmark in Andre Menras’ life. Menras and his
friend Jean Pierre Debris went to Saigon in 1970 under the “French Red
Youth International Cooperation Mission.” He climbed the statue of a
US marine in Saigon in front of the Lower House of the Saigon
government (HCM City Opera House at present) to wave the flag of the
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF), and
distributed 6000 leaflets against the Vietnam War.
Menras and his friend were arrested for these activities. He was
sentenced to three years in prison, while his comrade was sentenced to
four.
Waves of demonstrations against their imprisonment ensued, but the
Saigon government did not budge an inch and the duo served their full
sentences. Although hard and brutal, the years in prison did not pass
by fruitlessly for the young man, a former French teacher at Saigon’s
Jean Jacque Rousseau School. He learned Vietnamese from other
prisoners and they gave him a Vietnamese name, Ho Cuong Quyet (Ho
standing for Ho Chi Minh and Cuong Quyet meaning determination).
In early 1973, they were released and expelled to France. Several
months after, he published the book We Accuse: Back from Saigon’s
Prisons in France. This book has been translated into many languages,
including a Vietnamese version issued in 1974.
Almost 30 years since his hurried exit, Menras returned to Saigon in
2002 to see his friends. Since then, he has frequently shuttled
between France and Vietnam, serving as chair for the French-Vietnamese
Association of Education Development and Exchange.
Menras explained that, since he hails from the Beziers region in
southern France that is world-renowned for its champagne, he has also
teamed up with Saigontourist to open several champagne outlets. All
profits are used to help poor children in Vietnam.
To honor his contributions to Vietnam, he was presented with the “For
the Young Generation” medal and the “Medal for Peace and Friendship
between Nations” by the Vietnamese government.
In a talk with HCM City Vice-Chair three years ago, Menras expressed
his wish to become a Vietnamese citizen while keeping his French
nationality. At that time, Vietnam had not approved dual nationality
yet and foreigners had to give up their original nationality to gain
Vietnamese citizenship.
The new Law on Nationality was ratified in July 2009 and took effect
as of November 2009. President Nguyen Minh Triet knew of Menras
through some of his comrades and invited Menras to meet on November 4,
2009. At that time the President promised to grant Menras Vietnamese
citizenship.
Several days later, Menras saw the Vietnamese President again in a
meeting with his comrades in a forest near the Vietnam-Cambodia
border, the war resistance base during the Vietnam War. The President
told Menras to go to the HCM City Department of Justice three days
later to receive his grant of Vietnamese nationality.
On December 1 2009, Menras received the decision at a solemn ceremony,
attended by President Nguyen Minh Triet. From that day, Menras was a
Vietnamese citizen named Ho Cuong Quyet. He is the first foreigner to
receive Vietnamese nationality under the new law.
A reporter of the L’Herault du Jour newspaper questioned Menras: “If
you attend a sports game between Vietnam and France, what team does
your heart beat for?”
Menras answered: “In cases when I have to make difficult choices,
people often ask me: Hey Andre, are you French or Vietnamese? Like the
song of Josephine Baker, I have two loves. In prison, when I heard
stories of Frenchmen like Henri Martin, Madeleine Riffaud or Raymonde
Dien, who fought colonialism, I really felt I’m French. When I fought
against the prison wall of French colonialism, I felt I’m Vietnamese.”
He continued: “My first roots in terms of biology are western, but my
Vietnamese roots grew up from revolution and struggling. These roots
are very important because it is my youth. So please don’t ask me to
choose that which cannot be separated. If there is a sports game, I
don’t have to choose because Vietnamese people don’t play rugby!”
XL
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wrote:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM3sJ2cu15w&feature=player_embedded
Ye^u ca^`u cho chu'ng to^i xem hi`nh o^ng Ta^y nha?y bie^?u die^~n
Tango vo*'i ca'c ba` dda^`m o*? Toronto, Quebec, va^n va^n...
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