QUOTE(jose cuervo @ Apr 10 2007, 10:14 PM)
It's true that we're not taught to hate or have animosities for people that once had an bloody history in our country.
But also let's be honest now SoCal, companies invest in VietNam for cheap labor, not because they care about VietNam, it's because they want to maximize their profits. That's the god honest truth.
Jose
I read many research by Japanese researchers about Vietnam. Most often, these Japanese economists, researchers, writers compliment the industriousness and intelligence of Vietnamese worker. The Japanese respect Vietnamese. If you don't believe me, you GOOGLE yourself and find out how many nice things that Japanese say about Vietnamese.
You go and talk to Japanese people, okay, and find out. I don't make up these stuffs.
http://www.waseda-coe-cas.jp/paper/070321-Tsuboi-e.pdfby Yoshiharu Tsuboi
Conclusion
There is no doubt that people’s lives have improved over the past twenty years since the Doi Moi
Policy was adopted. The scars of war have been healed and it can be said that Vietnam has finally
become a “normal country”. The expressions on people’s faces have become gentler and babies have
been getting fatter. However, the basic structure of the country has changed neither politically nor
industrially.
On the political front, the single-party rule of the Communist Party continues, with restrictions on
freedom. Some claim that communist rule and economic growth are compatible because China is
maintaining high economic growth even though they are also under communist rule. However,
China’s communist rule is far detached from socialism on the other side of the Rubicon River and is
a system of capitalistic developmental dictatorship. It may be referred to as “socialism” or “a
single-party rule of the Communist Party” as the system is referred to in Vietnam, but it is different
in content. Furthermore, Vietnam has several problems that are exclusive only to Vietnam.
One is
that the people were divided through war and no reconciliations have been made between the over
three million people of the former “South” who have emigrated abroad and the current regime of the
former “North”. Further democratization is needed to achieve this racial reconciliation. And the
significant economic and political progress that is being made by Vietnam’s enormous neighboring
country, China, is definitely an issue to be focused on. This is also a threat to Vietnam. Vietnam
must have its entire race, including the Vietnamese people overseas, unite and make developments
that can keep up with China’s, if not for the sake of avoiding being swallowed up by China. “To
protect national independence and not be swallowed up by China”. This was a top priority even in
historical terms, and is still the same, even though it might have changed shape.
On the industrial front, Vietnam has a fundamentally thin structure of industry where there is no
system that allows the country to domestically produce basic necessities of life on its own. They
have basically not emerged from rural society. Historically speaking, the reasons behind this are
their economic structure being subservient to colonialism and the fact that their industrial
infrastructure was destroyed through warfare. Even when taking a broad view of their society as a
whole, the Vietnamese have a disadvantage which cannot be found in any other country; which is
not having anything to build on because the warfare that they have gone through has been disastrous
both economically and culturally. Economically speaking, funds are absolutely insufficient and no
more can be procured from within the country. It is nearly impossible to build an internationally
competitive industry in a world that is becoming smaller with increasing competitiveness under
these conditions. There is no mistake that an IT-related software industry can serve as an axis.
However, there will still be limits on its development as long as it is conceived by the country as a
nation state. There will perhaps be better future prospects if divisions of labor within a regional
integration with ASEAN or ASEAN Plus Three = “East Asia Community” were considered.
At any rate, Vietnam, which has excellent human resources, possesses high capabilities for
development. The emergence of a leader who has visions of the future thirty and fifty years ahead,
and can see things through the viewpoint of not a single country, but through the framework of the
regionally-integrated ASEAN can be anticipated in order to utilize this capacity.
