Vietnamese embark on global living journies
Over the past 50 years, Vietnamese people have left their motherland to plant new roots in Europe, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Aside from western countries, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of Vietnamese people live across Asian countries and territories such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and the Philippines. Current estimates put the number of people in the Vietnamese diaspora at about four million. Not only do Vietnamese people live in these countries, but they have certainly made their mark. On a recent visit to Vietnam, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said, “I know that Vietnamese people in Israel are good at cuisine and enduring in the military.” Au Co, considered the mother of Vietnamese civilization, when taking her fifty children to settle in the snow covered mountains of northern Vietnam, could never have imagined just how much her people would grow, develop, and spread. ...