229- Lien Hang - Why Knowing Our History is Vital for Our Own Future

[@ngan.world712]

I am Vietnamese living in Vietnam. I really appreciate this amazing work that offers great analysis about Vietnam history. Please keep it up!

[@TheVietnamesepodcast]

Thank you for your endearing words. The Vietnamese history is rich with so many facets to explore.

[@siddude]

Thank you, Dr. Nguyen. Originally I wanted to be a historian too.. We need more Viet speakers doing research on VN.

[@edwardho996]

Thank you for doing this for our country, especially for our young and future generations.

[@phan1182]

This is an under-appreciated interview! This woman is amazing. I hope she inspires more overseas-Vietnamese to learn and propagate Vietnamese history that is whole and unbiased. So much of Vietnamese history is told by political tribalists.

[@TheVietnamesepodcast]

Lien Hang is a treasure.

[@phuoctammynguyen3946]

Much appreciation for this podcast. You did it again Ken connecting the right heart and mind with amazing guests and issues like these. Wishing your like-minded ideals spring off projects to the much hungry generations. I see great leadership potential combine with genuine caring and knowledge you both have.

[@phan1182]

Ken's view of the Vietnamese communist government as an eastern confusion style of government vs the western liberal democratic style of government (31:40) is an interesting take that I had not thought about. He needs to have a whole discussion about it with a confusion scholar. It's not surprising given that Vietnam is the country most dominated and influenced by China of all the Asian countries.

[@TheVietnamesepodcast]

Yes, I’ve been discussing this a lot with scholars lately. There’s not any clear cut answer but it seems like a logical pathway. When I go to Asia, folks tend to fall in line with the government and not question things with the government as much as we do in the west.

[@Cai-Luong-Chi-Bao]

Confucian?

[@Bstylaz]

Yo! Just letting u know, i think your intro is incomplete. it cuts of at 0:27

[@peacefullearning2912]

I concur when she said that being Vietnamese means working toward reconciliation. Moving from Vietnam to Canada, I realized there is more division within the Vietnamese community than I thought, the differences between the Vietnamese in the diaspora and the Vietnamese in Vietnam. Lots of the Vietnamese in the diaspora have negative views about Vietnam, not just the politics but everything. We do need to understand both sides more, we do need to bridge the gaps, and each one of us needs to contribute to that reconciliation.

[@TheVietnamesepodcast]

Dear peaceful learning. Yes to everything in this post. We need to all contribute to reconciliation.

[@ki5ngau]

The notion that Viet had been dominated and oppressed for a 1,000 is not a communist notion. It is drilled in us way before communism even began.

[@misterd-lyangeleno3574]

as well educated as these academics / professors are, i wish that they did have a chance to read & understand vnese history according to ours (i.e. historian tran-trong-kim). for our 2000+ year history, 1800-now is only the last 2 hours of a 24-hour clock. they need to know about king ngo-quyen who took the ancient VN out of the 900+ years of control (slavery) from the ancient china > this has nothing to do with the "communisty narrative" about the vnese people fighting for their own independence.

[@Cai-Luong-Chi-Bao]

us?

[@yanzivon]

Vietnamese are Mon Khmer people they are one branches of the Cambodian people, their language belong to the Austroasiatic language . Mon Khmer language .

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

I would mark Ken Burns' documentary series on the war a 2 or 3. If you want an infinitely better documentary series watch the 1983 PBS series 'Vietnam: a television history.' I also recommend the 1974 film 'Hearts and Minds' as well as 'Winter Soldier' made during the 1972 Winter Soldier Investigation into the way the American military prosecuted the war by never-ending atrocities against the Vietnamese population. Ken Burns' documentary is a piece of propaganda for the 'let's rewrite history so America and the military comes out looking good' lobby. You're wasting your time watching it.