QUOTE (Nam Quoc Son Ha @ May 13 2004, 08:26 AM)
If they conquered us instead of the French and forcibly changed our surnames, just like what happened to the Filipinos, what do you think would have been our ancestors' reaction and what they would have done?
first of all. i am going to tell you about the native filipino in respect to our history of colonialism.
1) much of the philippines were able to be conquered because we were not a single entity or had solidarity as much of the other nations in Asia at the time.
2) only the people who had already established kingdoms in the philippines were spared colonial imperilism because they FOUGHT and they were UNITED and that is why they are UNCONQUERABLE to this day.
those were the:
1) IGOROTS OF LUZON ISLAND
2) LUMADS OF MINDANAO ISLAND
3) MOROS OF SULU
these people were never conquered by spain or american colonists and survive to this day practicing their indigenous and pre-imperilistic cultures..
so viets had an advantage and would probably fair better but im sure with the spaniards more advance technology they would have left some impression on vietnamese culture. french is spoken in vietnam, your writing script is gone. vietnam is the 2nd largest christian nation in asia after the philippines...
do not look down on filipinos because we suffered the worst type of white colonizer. the spaniard and the french were different types of imperilists.
spaniards take land & resources, and kill you, and try to destory your culture.
french mainly concentrate on taking your land and resources.
the only people compareable to Filipinos are the those who were conquered by the Spainards in the Americas.
look at them. they had aztec kingdoms; armies, unifed political entities, temples.... and they were conquered in less than 50 years and their traditions and languages were replaced with SPANISH.
but the philippines, it take 300 years to conquer us, and we still have 3 unconquerable entities in the philippines. and we still retain our native languages with only spanish loan words, we do not speak spanish. and spanish did not change the language at all.