[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by anathem

Ethnic or cultural identities, stereotypes and categorizations are never as simple or black and white as a world punctured by that malignant discourse of nationalism would want you to believe. What you talk about is a complicated terrain of competing and contested meanings, divergently interpreted histories and ultimately, a question of how arbitrary, contextually sited constructs are assumed to be iron-wrought truths and become endlessly reproduced as accepted everyday "reality".

Heh, I'd really like to see how a Vietnamese nationalist would react to your assertions. The Confucian bit may well be true to a certain extent (though one could say, for want of generalizing and for fear of participating in a totalizing, nationalistic, waste-of-time sort of manner of looking at things, that this little nugget is even more applicable to South Koreans; and they definitely aren't very "Chinese", or are they?) but that follow up was definitely a bit unnecessary and insensitive.

So Vn culture is rojak, neither here nor there...oso definitely not confucian according to your comments above?

Not sure what the moral of story is...care to coment in brief...