My parents are heavily influenced by Northern values and ideals of Northern people. I was born in the South yet have many friends from the North. I have Northern accents yet I live a stricter-than-average Southern lifestyle. I consider myself to be a blended type. I have a couple things to add:
North Vietnamese people don’t really feel superior to South Vietnamese. They view the Southern as friends whom they don’t know and try to get along. In fact, I feel that Southern people feel a little bit inferior to Northern people.
I don’t know who feels superior over whom. Northern people are very hard working and stingy. Their strength lies in intellectual power. Southern people are more laid back. Their strength lies in doing business adeptly.
Those who want to get along or make friends will spend efforts to do so. Those who envy will find racism and poison to bring other people down. This applies to both Northern and Southern people.
Northern people, due to their cultural and political influence, tend to be more adept at negotiation and diplomacy. Southern people, due to their openness and freedom, tend to be more direct and straightforward.
Vietnamese people primarily identify from which region the other person comes by his accent and action. However, due to internal migration within Vietnam, the used-to-be clear distinction between Northern and Southern people have turned blurred. More people migrate to the South than to the North.
I am an attorney in the Washington DC area, with a Doctor of Law in the US, attended the master program at the National School of Administration of Việt Nam, and graduated from Sài Gòn University Law School. I aso studied philosophy at the School of Letters in Sài Gòn.
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I have worked as an anti-trust attorney for Federal Trade Commission and a litigator for a fortune-100 telecom company in Washington DC.
I have taught law courses for legal professionals in Việt Nam and still counsel VN government agencies on legal matters.
I have founded and managed businesses for me and my family, both law and non-law.
I have published many articles on national newspapers and radio stations in Việt Nam.
In 1989 I was one of the founding members of US-VN Trade Council, working to re-establish US-VN relationship.
Since the early 90's, I have established and managed VNFORUM and VNBIZ forum on VN-related matters; these forums are the subject of a PhD thesis by Dr. Caroline Valverde at UC-Berkeley and her book Transnationalizing Viet Nam.
I translate poetry and my translation of "A Request at Đồng Lộc Cemetery" is now engraved on a stone memorial at Đồng Lộc National Shrine in VN.
I study and teach the Bible and Buddhism. In 2009 I founded and still manage dotchuoinon.com on positive thinking and two other blogs on Buddhism.
In 2015 a group of friends and I founded website CVD - Conversations on Vietnam Development (cvdvn.net).
I study the art of leadership with many friends who are religious, business and government leaders from many countries.
I have written these books, published by Phu Nu Publishing House in Hanoi:
"Positive Thinking to Change Your Life", in Vietnamese (TƯ DUY TÍCH CỰC Thay Đổi Cuộc Sống) (Oct. 2011)
"10 Core Values for Success" (10 Giá trị cốt lõi của thành công) (Dec. 2013)
"Live a Life Worth Living" (Sống Một Cuộc Đời Đáng Sống) (Oct. 2023)
I practice Jiu Jitsu and Tai Chi for health, and play guitar as a hobby, usually accompanying my wife Trần Lê Túy Phượng, aka singer Linh Phượng.
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