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  1. A Glimpse of Vietnamese Oral Literature: Mythology, Tales, Folklore by Loc Dinh Pham, 2002-04
  2. To Swim in Our Own Pond: Ta Ve Ta Tam Ao Ta : A Book of Vietnamese Proverbs
  3. Brother Cat and Brother Rat/Vietnamese English Version (Chung-Kuo Hai Tzu Ti Ku Shih. 41 Tse.) by Wonder Kids Publications Group, 1992-06
  4. Celebrating New Year - Miss Yuan-Shiau/Vietnamese English Version (Chinese Children's Stories) by Wonder Kids Publications Group, 1992-06
  5. The Blind Man and the Cripple / Orchard Village: Vietnamese-English (Chinese Children's Stories Series) by Wonder Kids Publications Group, 1992-06
  6. Story of the Chinese Zodiac: English Vietnamese by M. Chang, 1994-06
  7. Look What We'Ve Brought You from Vietnam: Crafts, Games, Recipes, Stories, and Other Cultural Activities from Vietnamese Americans (Look What We've Brought You From...) by Phyllis Shalant, 1998-10
  8. The original myths of Vietnam (Vietnamese studies papers) by Ngọc Bích Nguyẽ̂n, 1985
  9. The Golden Slipper: A Vietnamese Legend (Legends of the World) by Darrell H. Y. Lum, 1994-06
  10. Legend of Mu Lan by Wei Jiang, 1997-10
  11. Ithaca in black and white: A play by Paul Woodruff, 1999
  12. Conflict of Myths: The Development of Counter-Insurgency Doctrine and the Vietnam War by Larry Cable, 1988-08-01

81. A Reality Check For A Clueless Nation
Published on Thursday, May 3, 2001 by Ted Rall. The mythology of Vietnam A Reality Check for a Clueless Nation. by Ted Rall
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NEW YORK Historical memory has never done terribly well in this country, but our national case of collective amnesia over the Vietnam War surely sets a record for mass delusion. Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (finally) admits that he led a commando raid on the village of Thanh Phong on the night of Feb. 25, 1969, that ended up with the accidental killings of between 12 and 14 unarmed civilians. One of the six men under Kerrey's command alleges that Kerrey ordered the Vietnamese lined up and shot. For all we know, both men may be telling the truth as they remember it. According to Dr. Frank Ochberg, a former associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health, the stress of combat "makes it possible to remember things in a part of the brain that causes you to focus on certain events and completely ignore others." In an April 29 op-ed piece that appeared in the Washington Post, Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., Max Cleland, D-Ga., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., wrote: "Many people have been forced to do things in war that they are deeply ashamed of later. Yet for our country to blame the warrior instead of the war is among the worst, and, regrettably, most frequent mistakes we as a country can make."

82. An Approach To Dealing With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders In Vietnam Veterans
But like the hero in mythology, after suffering, enduring, The second category of stress the Vietnam veteran experiences is based in the fundamental
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An Approach to Dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders in Vietnam Veterans
Daryl S. Paulson
Twenty-five to thirty years ago, during the Vietnam war, certain cultural roles and responsibilities were traditionally male: being the breadwinnerstrong and enduringand, of course, going to war. However, we Americans have witnessed the erosion of traditional male-dominant roles due largely to the women's movement. Lacking the physical strength of men, women have used the justice system, their intelligence, and their authentic attributes to gain deserved liberation from actual and presumed male domination. Women have successfully challenged men in most professions. Today, hardly any endeavor is a purely male one. But, during the Vietnam war, fighting was the domain of men, as it had been throughout the ages. As such, this manuscript pertains to men, specifically to Vietnam combat veterans and problems they face (Paulson, 1994). Driven into a war they did not want, then prevented from fighting it with the military aggressiveness necessary to win, they lost confidence and respect. In many cases, upon their return from the war, Vietnam veterans were shunned by the civilian community and labeled "warmongers" and "baby killers." Many Vietnam veterans were forced to conceal their involvement in the war, so as not to be ridiculed but, in doing this, they lost any available cultural support so essential for adjustment for re-entry into civilian life. In moments of solitude and reflection, they could find no purpose for their involvement in the war. Many were in anguish because, without a purpose, how could they have killed fellow human beings just because they were labeled "the enemy?" They could not, so they became burdened with guilt.

83. The Use Of Myths In Science
The mosquito tale is from the vietnamese culture and the other is from Native Social studies and science might develop a unit that discusses myths from
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The Use of Myths in Science
Phyllis D. Peck
1994 Woodrow Wilson Biology Institute
Introduction and Teacher Information
The introduction and information section of this activity contains material known to many via history courses and life experiences. Please refer to references for complete explanations. The process that we, in the late twentieth century western world, know as science has changed over the millennia. Pre-historic humans were thought to have a pantheon of gods and goddesses that ruled the world and its inhabitants. During the Golden Age of Greece, science began to change to rationality and logic. With the fall of Rome and its government, scientific thought changed again, to the superstitions of the Middle Ages. At the end of the Middle Ages, the Age of Reason and the Renaissance began the trend toward the present, the Age of Information. Science now relies on data that can be reported, duplicated, verified. It is linearly logical, rational, using numbers to compute, compare and analyze information. This has not always been so. People use the knowledge they have to explain the natural and physical world around them. Ancient people and people without the technology available in the Age of Information developed stories, myths and legends to explain their world. The people of pre-history are, by modern standards, thought to have been very superstitious, with stories and characters to explain their worlds. Our knowledge of their beliefs has been extrapolated from contemporary, "primitive" societies and cultures such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Hmong of Indochina, and the Inuits of Alaska. Anthropologists have examined oral histories and religious practices of these modern cultures and compared them to ancient, pre-historical cultural artifacts. Both the modern and ancient cultures have various, but often similar, stories to explain events in their world.

84. History Department At Binghamton University
The third myth concerns the fate of the MIA/POWs in Vietnam. The Rambo myth relies on demonizing the vietnamese and completely exculpates the Americans
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Phyllis Amenda Contending versions of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement began to develop even before the war ended. The hawks' version, then and now, holds that the war was winnable, but the press, micromanaging civilian game theorists in the Pentagon, and antiwar hippies lost it. . . . The doves' version, contrarily, remains that the war was unwise and unwinnable no matter what strategy was employed or how much firepower was used. . . Both of these versions of the war and the antiwar movement as they have come down to us are better termed myths than versions of history because they function less as explanations of reality than as new justifications of old positions and the emotional investments that attended them (Garfinkle, 7). Pro-war or Anti- war. In the generation alive during the 1960s and 1970s, few, if any, Americans could avoid taking a position on the United States' role in Southeast Asia. As the above quotation from Adam Garfinkle suggests, positions taken in the 1990s, over twenty years after hostilities ended, serve both as an explanation for the U.S. defeat and justification for the positions taken during the war. The hawks' view justifies those who served in Vietnam and appears to give meaning to the deaths of the 58,000 Americans who died there. Those who protested the war or evaded the draft can tell themselves that their actions were justified because the war was immoral, unwinnable and just plain stupid.

85. UExpress.com: Ted Rall By Ted Rall -- (05/03/2001) THE MYTHOLOGY OF VIETNAM
THE mythology OF VIETNAM. A Reality Check for a Clueless Nation. NEW YORK Historical memory has never done terribly well in this country,
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86. The Blog From The Core - The Mythology Of The Liberal-Left In America
Street protest is central to the mythology of the liberalleft in America For guys like Krugman, that is, the era of Vietnam and Watergate was a time of
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The Weblog at The View from the Core - Thu. 09/02/04 07:16:23 AM The Mythology of the Liberal-Left in America Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCCLXV James Taranto with some insightful observations yesterday. (Quoted ellipses in original.) .... Street protest is central to the mythology of the liberal-left in America, which romanticizes (rightly) the civil-rights marches of the early 1960s and (less rightly) the antiwar demonstrations of the late '60s and early '70s. In contrast, there's nothing like this on the right, except for the antiabortion movement and the occasional ad hoc protest, like the one in Florida against the Clinton administration's abduction and deportation of Elian Gonzalez. The liberal media generally present these protests as if they're wholesome, all-American expressions of opinion, glossing over the reality that the protesters are a motley collection of extreme partisans, antieverything nihilists and single-issue fanatics. This allows liberal elites to imagine that their loathing of the president is a populist posture. Yet although it would be unfair to characterize the protesters as representing the mainstream of the Democratic Party, the differences between the "respectable" liberal-left and the wacko protesters have become increasingly blurred. While we've been out on the town enjoying the parties of the right, National Review's Byron York has been bravely venturing into the fever swamps of the Angry Left. Yesterday he reported on "the 'Big Tent Extravaganza,' a gathering of musicians, actors, and comedians co-sponsored by

87. Right-Wing Fantasies And Iraq, By Bennet G. Kelley - Democratic Underground
The biggest part of the right wing Vietnam mythology is that the United States could have won in Vietnam but for meddling politicians.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/01/25_iraq.html
Home Discussion Forums Articles Demopedia (BETA) ... Donate Right-Wing Fantasies and Iraq January 25, 2005
By Bennet G. Kelley It's a little known fact that while most of us are sleeping soundly, the far right gathers to rewrite history. With the Bush administration throwing in the towel on finding weapons of mass destruction, these right wing night owls now claim that the absence of WMD's is irrelevant since "there were lots of reasons" to go war. In due time, they may even tell us what those reasons were. These same night owls, however, have done a masterful job with the Vietnam War, recasting it as a mythic crusade against communism that we noble Americans would have won had we simply let the military do its job. This historical fantasy is anything but harmless, since the same themes are echoed in recent right wing comments about Abu Ghraib and our strategy in Iraq. The first part of this mythology is to dispel the notion that Americans committed any wartime atrocities. Just as the Swift Boat veterans disputed Senator Kerry's claim of atrocities in Vietnam, conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh sought to deflect attention from Abu Ghraib by dismissing it as equivalent to a fraternity initiation. This month, Limbaugh again dismissed Abu Ghraib as a media event, adding that the Abu Ghraib abuses "went on to extract information that actually ended up saving lives."

88. H-Net Review: David Kieran On The Vietnam War In History, Literature, And Film
Berets relied upon frontier mythology to establish Vietnam as a noble cause. Vietnam veterans, with specific attention to the mythology of the POW
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=121511095335893

89. [cen] Local Mythology Wildlife
is reputed to have once embraced a mythology that precluded them from = wondering if anyone else working in Vietnam has experience with this =
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90. SOS Children's Villages: Country Information On Vietnam
Besides mythology, not much is known about the history of Vietnam before the 11th century BC. China ruled the nation, then known as Nam Viet,
http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/html/country_information_on_vietnam.html
Country Information on Vietnam Climate Vietnam has a tropical climate in the south that ranges to subtropical in the north, both dominated by the monsoons. Viet Tri The foundation stone of the SOS Children's Village Viet Tri was laid in 1997. The first children moved into the new SOS Children's Village in 1999.
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Fauna/Flora The biggest threat to Cambodia's natural environment is logging which reduced the country's forest coverage from 75% in the mid-1960s to...
Helmut Kutin Helmut Kutin was born in Bolzano (Italy) in 1941. Following a family tragedy he was admitted to the world's first SOS Children's Village in Imst...
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Terrain
About three-quarters of the country's landscape are mountainous and hilly, especially in the north and in the northwestern sections. The country's highest elevation is Fansipan (3,143 m) in the northwest. The lowlands consist of the Red River Delta and the coastal plains. Central Vietnam is divided into a narrow coastal strip, a broad plateau and the Annamite Mountain Chain, which separates the plateau from the coastal lowlands. The southernmost part of Vietnam includes the Mekong River System.
Climate
Vietnam has a tropical climate in the south that ranges to subtropical in the north, both dominated by the monsoons. North Vietnam is characterized by a hot and humid wet season from mid-May to mid-September as well as a warm and humid dry season from mid-October to mid-March. In the south the seasons come later and in Central Vietnam rainfall is heaviest between September and January when the coast is subject to tropical storms.

91. Vietnam Travel And Holidays - Myths And Legends In Vietnam
Vietnam travel and 2003 and 2004 holidays Vietnam has an enormous treasury of myths and legends, both ancient and recent.
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An ancient Vietnamese creation myth abounds with animist symbolism. Lac Long Quan, the son of a mountain god and a water dragon, was given the land of Lac Viet to rule by his parents. He built two palaces, one in the mountains and one in the ocean. Later he fell in love with a beautiful fairy, Au Co, and transformed himself into handsome young man to win her over. They married, and a year later, she laid a hundred eggs that hatched into human babies that quickly matured into adults. Sentiment and emotion
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92. Robert Jensen: Kerry's Hypocrisy On The Vietnam War
Saluting a Myth. Kerry s Hypocrisy on the Vietnam War. By ROBERT JENSEN. In a hyperpatriotic country, it can be difficult to tell the truth about the
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93. "Vietnam: Land Of The Blue Dragon" - Shop ThingsAsian
The history of Vietnam is shrouded in a rich oral tradition of myth and legend. The country has forged its identity out of a historic duality that continues
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Alisher Sharipov (St. Petersburg) Female Deities and Some Particularities of Mythological Symbolism: An Example of Vietnamese Mythology The pantheon of Vietnamese folk religion incorporates many female deities that perform all the most important divine functions (cosmogony, control over natural processes, protective, cultural functions, healing and some others). This situation is rather uncommon for the pantheons of other world mythologies. Notable is the fact that in Vietnam not only local deities have a female identity, but also male deities of some borrowed religions are often interpreted there as women-deities. It seems that the Vietnamese have an obvious confidence in the female sacred power. One of the reasons of the supremacy of female sacredness can probably result from the specific features of social role women and men in ancient Vietnamese society. Religious concepts are likely to have been associated with matrilineal and matrilocal kinship organization. On the other hand, such factors as flood rice growing and sea/river fishing provoked a special attitude to the water, which is a symbol of feminine. Moreover, these factors influenced the formation of basic sacred symbols, particularly a totemic idea of the Vietnamese descent from a dragon-ancestor that is wide spread in the myths about ethnic origin. Symbolical interrelation within positively marked images of the dragon, water and feminine, and the distinctive kinship organization became the reasons that determined the gender identity of deities. As a result, most of them have a womanly appearance that is regarded as a guaranty of their superior power.

95. Swans' Past Commentaries - Antony Black: Vietnam Retrospective
Vietnam A Retrospective. Myths and Reality. by Antony C. Black. May 1, 2000. I am of that generation that grew up watching the Vietnam War on television.
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May 1, 2000 I am of that generation that grew up watching the Vietnam War on television. The first television war. I remember eating my TV dinner and rooting nightly as the body counts for the 'Vietcong' were scored at the top, right-hand side of the screen, and then smoldering indignant as the much lower body counts for the US troops were sorrowfully posted. Not very different, when I reflect upon it, than the way many youngsters reacted to the Gulf War or the war on Yugoslavia, and with about as much grasp on the truth. For the truth about Vietnam is that the United States of America, armed with the most powerful military machine that had ever existed on the face of the Earth, attacked a helpless, peasant society - that sought nothing more than the simple right to national self-determination - and visited upon it a conflagration of such savagery that it left upwards of 4 million of its people dead. Not then content with having left an entire nation in ruins, the military 'losers', agonizing all the while through every cultural medium from press to book to film, ostensibly over the error of their ways but in reality over the error of their failure, vindictively waged a follow-up economic war for the next twenty years to punish the 'winners' for having had the audacity to defend themselves. But this is only part of the fabric of the truth of Vietnam. Woven into the quilt of the mayhem are myths worth addressing.

96. Vietnam Political Culture
The party has presented the myths and realities of the past in a manner that suggests Vietnam s political culture represents, therefore, the steadfast
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Political Culture
Vietnam's political culture has been determined by a number of factors of which communism is but the latest. The country's political tradition is one of applying borrowed ideas to indigenous conditions. In many ways, Marxism-Leninism simply represents a new language in which to express old but consistent cultural orientations and inclinations. Vietnam's political processes, therefore, incorporate as much from the national mythology as from the pragmatic concerns engendered by current issues. Nevertheless, Confucian traits were still discernible in Vietnam in the mid-1980s. To begin with, many of the first- generation communist leaders came from scholar-official backgrounds and were well-versed in the traditional requisites of "talent and virtue" ( tai duc ) necessary for leadership. Ho Chi Minh's father was a Confucian scholar, and Vo Nguyen Giap and the brothers Le Duc Tho and Mai Chi Tho were from scholarly families. They cultivated an image of being incorruptible and effective administrators as well as moral leaders. The relationship between the government and the governed was also deliberately structured to parallel the Confucian system. Like the Confucians, leaders of the highly centralized Vietnamese ccommunist government stressed the importance of the village and clearly defined its relationship to the center. The influence of modern China, and particularly the doctrines of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, on Vietnamese political culture is a more complicated issue. Vietnamese leaders, including Ho Chi Minh, spent time in China, but they had formed their impressions of communism in Paris and Moscow and through Moscow-directed Comintern connections. The success of the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949, however, inspired the Vietnamese communists to continue their own revolution. It also enabled them to do so by introducing the People's Republic of China as a critical source of material support. The Second National Party Congress, held in 1951, reflected renewed determination to push ahead with party objectives, including reconstruction of the society to achieve communist aims and land reform.

97. Green Berets And "Born Killers":  Myth-Making And The Vietnam War In American F
American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York Columbia University Press. Hilbish, Dabney M. (1990). “Relax, It’s Only A Movie Representations of War
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Green Berets and "Born Killers": Myth-Making and the Vietnam War in American Film Alexander M. Bielakowski Alexander M. Bielakowski
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The war film has long been one of Hollywood’s oldest and most successful genres. The first Academy Award for Best Picture, Wings (1927), was awarded to a film about World War I, while several actors have made the war film a staple of their movie careers. For the most part, the films of this genre have followed a set pattern in their story development and characterization. As a result, the genre itself has become part of what has been termed “America’s mythic landscape” (Hellmann, 1986). The term myth is narrowly defined here to mean the stories containing a people’s image of themselves in history. These myths are extreme simplifications of reality, but they are also a necessary part of a nation’s culture and can act as a blueprint by which to examine a nation’s past or prepare for its future. “Myths may often distort or conceal, but these stories are nevertheless always true in the sense that they express deeply held

98. American Enterprise: John O'Neil
The election aside, the attention focused on Vietnam has allowed the people who served there to confront this myth and lie about the Vietnam War and I think
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O'NEILL: Other political prognosticators could say that better than me. I think that people got a chance to learn how he had actually dealt with a terrorist problem. And the only time in his life that he really confronted it was with the North Vietnamesewho shot people in the back of the head, executed 4 million people. And he thought that we were the criminals, and couldn't seem to tell the difference between us and the North Vietnamese. He thought Ho Chi Minh was George Washington. And of course he met with them and basically supported them. That would not at all be the type of leader you would want to confront the current group of terrorists, al-Qaeda. TAE: Listening to the pundits explain Bush's victory the day after the election, I didn't hear a single one mention the Swift Boat vets.

99. It's The Empire, Stupid
The problem is that both myths are myths. The US assault on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia was part of a wider attack on independent movements in the Third
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a review of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death By Norman Solomon 291 pages, $24.95 the threat. True, the neocons are a danger, but not the danger. The threat and danger the rot at the core of U.S. actions abroad is not a single politician or school of thought, but the project of empire-building. That has gone forward through Republican and Democratic administrations alike, most intensely and recklessly since the end of World War II, when U.S. power and domination peaked. In U.S. political mythology, we were either a well-intentioned giant that simply misunderstood the nature of Vietnamese society (the liberal view), or a well-intentioned giant kept from victory by a fifth column at home (the reactionary view). In the mythology of U.S. journalism, the news media played the role of tough critic, holding the powerful accountable for their mistakes. In this story, reporters and editors are either heroes for their courage (the liberal view) or traitors for their contribution to defeat (the reactionary view).

100. 500 Myth Links
Myths, Legends, Folklore. Appearing on almost all monuments in Vietnam palaces, pagodas, temples, tombs and houses - the image of the
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Go to Frames! Break Out of Frames Search Mystery Links Home Page-Site Guide ... http://members.aol.com/Great15164/index.html Times of Antiquity, When GIANTS ruled.. in the Days of NOAH Gobbling Information and knowledge ~~~The GIANTS were inhabitants on earth from the earliest days of old. There's numerous references to the land of the giants in the Bible, and throughout ancient myths and history from nearly every... http://netguide.aust.com/guides/myths_guide.html Mythology folklore We have gathered together a diversity of mythology and folklore sites that include classical Greek and Roman myths featuring the Olympian gods Zeus, Hades and Aphrodite, folklore from Latvia, China, and of course Dreaming stories from Australia. This lore is the culmination of... http://www.ability.org.uk/mytholog.html General Mythology and Folklore Play Thirty-something Or Select Another Title Fairy Tales - Grimm The Fairy Tales of Ika BremerThe Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Introduction to MythMyths and LegendsOf Gods and Men: The A-Z of Mythology and LegendTales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy tales from... http://www.castlebooks.com/myth.htm

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