What is your identity?

Vietnam Spratly and Paracel islands (Hoang Sa and Truong Sa)'s ownership issue is on the top updated list of most Vietnam's youth forums these days.

Singapore and Malaysia have long been fighting over a Pedra island further into the sea. Who knows who wins, the Singaporeans need to talk about their break holidays, about the most recent shows on TV, about their never ending projects in school. They have no time.

I was wondering which is the better thing off of Vietnam over Singapore. Maybe that lies in this nationalism spirit.

A professor asks his students: "What is your identity?" A Singaporean says: "I'm a Muslim". "Vietnamese", says a Vietnamese. Vietnam people love their country. They pride on their nationality. Long learnt by heart in all primary textbooks is a heroic, gigantic history of 4000 year old dear Vietnam fighting for the land. The only thing missing is perhaps what tells them the fact, that the country is too poor, that the inferior them have to work harder than all to gain equality with others, that there is no seat for now self-satisfaction and peaceful laidback.

ODA funds are utilized for improving the fates of rich government officers. Corruption, though year by year repeated committed to fight, still spread fast even to the smallest unit working. Prices mount astoundingly everyday. Working people even in cities dare buy no meat for dinner amongst governments priding themselves from some-where world praises for good development. Education lags behind most countries of surrounding regions. Diseases spread rapidly without control and without information provision. People die everywhere of unreasonable this and that.

Vietnamese people love their country. But please, someone must tell them action is to go, now.