Just random comment

The thing that struck me as I was looking at your collection
is the incredible differences and diversity that exists in the
Vietnamese. It is an understandable phenomenom given the constant
changes in power structures, cutural and ideological influences.

Each change sets up a new social strata and drives each region
at a different pace of development (technology and urbanization).

In the rush after the new, each power structure looks after its
own interest, pursues its own vogue while abandoning its obligation
of leadership and power.

And the same thing keeps repeating repeats itself without a
national figure and leaders of vision and of compassion. Each
historical era ends up leading the nation and its people down
the same old path. Different actors and different sceneries, but
never a different plot. 

Instead of the culture and society enriches and advances itself
at cross-roads of cultures, the powerful keeps replacing, killing,
and denying the old, until the culture becomes tattered and 
torn, and risking its own extinction at its own hand. The net
effect is that the people is no longer whole, even though we
insist on that illusion. 

What compounds the problem is that these inherent and induced
differences are never looked upon as sources of beauty or of
concerns, but as basis for further arrogance, stigmatization,
and inevitable sources of self-destruction.

Just a few ramblings.

Cheers
KyAnh