Tag: Vietnamese New Year
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Reflections on Tet ’68: The Power of Media
Happy TET everyone! It’s almost become a tradition here to conjure up remembrances of Tet ’68 every year. This is a post I originally posted over two years ago and I thought I’d let it fly one more time. Have a great new year! (By the way, no self-respecting Vietnamese would ever call it Chinese New Year. Just…
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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…
Author Mark W Sasse 