Tag: MLK

• Happy Vietnamese New Year (and a reminder of Tet ’68)

  Chuc mung nam moi! Happy ‘Tet’ everyone. January 31 marks the most important holiday of the year for the Vietnamese. Yes, yes. It’s the same as Chinese New Year, but no self-respecting person from Vietnam who speaks Vietnamese (like myself) would ever refer to it using the name of their northern neighbor. It’s ‘Tet’! For…

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  January 31, 2014

  History & Culture, Vietnam

  Chinese New Year, Lyndon Johnson, MLK, Robert Kennedy, Tet, Tet 1968, Tet offensive, Vietnam, Vietnamese New Year