Recent news articles about people returning to their homeland to help their country reminded me of this question that I've been meaning to ask for a while.

To reiterate, how are you going to contribute to your mother country? And what steps are you going to take to achieve that goal? The goal may be big or small, directly or indirectly...it doesn't matter, as long as you follow through.

As I'm studying Biomedical Engineering, I think I'll help my country through health-related engineering. To do this, I'll find a company to work for who has an altrustic reputation. After moving up the ladder after some years and establishing myself as a integral part of the company, I will propose that help me financially to start a health clinic in Viet Nam that provides reduced-cost treatment. Or maybe start a manufacturing plant in VN that makes medical devices which could be provided to hospitals and doctors at lower costs. Basically, I want to be able to directly help the Vietnamese people, utilizing my background in engineering and medicine.

I'm going to be a [corrupted] officer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Seriously, the best job ever.

Sorta like Paul Farmer world renown anthropologist and doctor who goes to Haiti to set up the Lasante Clinic providing free care for the destitute. Good luck, it's a worthy goal.





A corrupted custom official at the airport is probably better. That way you can get rich robbing from your Vietnamese brothers while leaving the foreign tourists alone .

I'm gonna go to the Vietnam Cambodia border and move some border markers into Cambodian territory. Just kidding.

If you got guts, you would move the markers on the Sino-Viet border to its rightful place instead of picking on cambodia.

No I want to be a high official in the goverment. That way I would get away with the corruption, and arrest those lower status without being controversial!

And you can abuse your power by raping little girls and get away with it like that one guy.

Well anyway! I'm Offtopic and I don't want to be called a thread terrorist.

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Haha sissy

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The thing is the land which China is taking is OUR original land.


Surely, we don't want to become like Cambodians always flame Vietnamese.

Sissy.

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Support of "Vietnam" or support of "Dang Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam"

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Why delete so early

because it was offtopic. I'll get banned for life if i get another warning.



lol, good luck.

lol don't worry Cambodian officials work for Vietnam. All you have to do is give them some money and they'll look the other way.

Hah, you're gonna be the mods' little b!tch on a short leash until that warning is gone; then when it's gone, you're going to make another trademark-emperor stupid comment and get another warning, and so the cycle continues.

I am going to marry a lovely, loyal, caring Việtnamese girl ^_^
(preferably from Đà Lạt)

lol, the problem is. Byron you're a Vietnamese who has never been to Vietnam and can't speak vietnamese. And I guess you'll just grow up , work and die in the country you're living in, without contributing anything real to Vietnam.

And I am going to lay some land mines around those makers just for Byron. Don't worry Cambodia has plenty of land mines. Wasting a few on land grabbers is no big deal. And, if Byron escaped, I am gonna bribe supernovasp (since he's an airport offical) to arrest him on charges that he's Khmer entering VN illegally. Byron is somewhat dark -- of course the official gonna believe that he's Khmer.

lol, Byron is this true? You can't speak Vietnamese?

Well, i guess there are other ways to contribute something to Vietnam, like buying Vietnamese products. But this won't contribute much...

well i want to be a pilot in the vietnamese air force ever since i was little but now when i grow up i know that there is alot of scacalfie in order to be that
so i have a better idea im just gonna be an airline pilot for vietnam insted
i still get to fly
help my country and ppl
but best of all, i get to be rich unlike if i join the air force

It's true. That's why he didn't answer my question written in Vietnamese

So are you currently living in Vietnam right now or have citizenship there that you want to fly airplanes?



Isn't that more about helping yourself? Aren't you taking this "resource" (hot babes) from Vietnam . Don't you want to leave some around in Vietnam so the Vietnamese at home won't get lonely?

You don't need to be a Vietnamese citizen to be a crewmember for either Vietnam Airlines or Pacific Airlines.

This is too easy, by bashing other countries in Asia. Just kidding.

At the moment, the only thing I think I could do in the future is to help Vietnamese economically, like investing in Vietnam or something.

Politics is a no no.

Byron has got mindset towards que huong which is the important thing - anyways judging from the fact that he doesn't speak vietnamese well just means he wasnt born in VN - its not like he doesnt want to know

Byron is one proud Vietnamese. I guess he should learn Chu Quoc Ngu to be a completely proud Viet don't you think?

He doesn't speak it. Learning quoc ngu is just like reading a French essay for American, we can sound it out but we have no ideas what are you reading

there one ultimate way to remedy that

drop Byron in VN for a few months and presto

NOT even speaking it? OUTRAGEOUS. Bring him to the firing squad. LOL jk

That's a travesty for such a proud Viet

And I agree with vn1234, drop him in Vietnam, preferably somewhere in the countryside and he'll speak fluent Vietnamese in no time.

Just make sure he ain't got dropped into Khmer Krom village. Otherwise he will be learning Khmer.

^haha

or dont drop him in quang nam - cause then i wont understand him haha

Ahahaha, definitely no Khmer Krom village and no Quang Nam.

i dont know about the citizenship part but i was born in saigon, vietnam



and i know there ppl born in the US or else where that doesnt speak vietnamese and there parent r from the south vietnam gov. so all they tell their kid is vietnam is BAD and dirty so if that all they were told about it that all they would know.
so some time i feel sorry for tho kids

Lay off Byron a little - it's difficult for a foreign born Viet to learn the language, and it's much harder if they don't teach Viet classes at all where he lives. Nonetheless, there's still no excuse for at least not trying to learn; so as long as he's trying, it's all good

no one is pickin on byron - we brewing up strategies to make byron learn vietnamese the fastest and came up with parachuting him into VN - except Khmer Krom village and Quang Nam
haha

No no, he's a guy; and the best way to make any guy do something is to appeal to his smaller head. Give him a Vietnamese girl and he'll do anything she asks.

Nero you're superb

^haha make sure she knows english though - cause in the beggin byron wont understand

but then theres always body language eh?

The evolution of this thread:

Contributions to VN -> Being a corrupted officer -> Rearranging Cambodian and Chinese borders -> Supernovasp doing a Viet girl a favor by letting her marry him -> Byron's inability to speak Viet -> Making sure Byron doesn't parachute in a Khmer village -> A girl for Byron -> (who knows??)

You guys (me included) really need some Ritalin.

yea i think we should go back to topic

and that true a women can make a man do anything she want

I don't see it that way.
I see it as having a profound & eternal effect for one (Việtnamese) person rather than a small & possibly insignificant effect for many.

After some time, there will be offsprings of Việtnamese ethnicity who will know the language, culture & history of their quê hương (compliments of their parents).
They will grow up as adults, each successful in their field of expertise, & contribute to Việtnam.
They will also often visit their mother & father upon retirement of ông bà giả này in Vũng Tàu...
đấy chẳng phải là đóng góp sao cơ ?

hehe

hey DragonMP - whats that "cơ" supposed to mean - ive heard some ladies say it to me and the first time i thought they were calling me "con" after every phrase haha - is it like the viet equivalent of "eh"

I haven't planned yet... but when I can take of myself, I will do something, like donate or invest or move back there xD.. right now I'm helping someone learning Vietnamese

I am thinking about spending few months (or maybe a year) in Vietnam, helping children or low-income people in countryside to learn some basic computer skills. I don't think I can do it soon before saving enough money.
I have read some VN magazines and really admire those US and Australian students, who wandered around the city of Saigon to tutored Vietnamese poor kids for their school works even on sidewalks. I am Vietnamese, yet I haven't done anything for my own people

And he's very grateful

Yep, then there's young people born in Saigon, Vietnam after the war and who lived there for quite a number of years and then grap at the chance to come to America and afterward hated the communist because they found out they been lied to all those years about Ho, the Viet War, and what democratic nations are like while they went through school.

Then there are Vietnamese born in the West who thinks the Viet govt is great when they never lived in Vietnam. I feel sorry for those kids.



I wonder if the Peace Corp has a mission in Vietnam? Would be a great organization to do those things you talked about through. A friend of mine with a graduate degree from MIT is going to Africa this October to teach math to children.