Wednesday, January 18, 2012

How Much French Influence is Still Present in Modern Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia?

the ladies are very fasion concious even poor woman will co-ordinate what they wear. i dont know if thats from the french or thats women just being women , but i've often said the ladies in vn ".. walk around w/ the posture of a french fasion model..." [ the guys , not so much lol although it is not uncommon to see an older man wearing a beret ]. the cyclos that are still around i do believe are from the french. and all the students i know [ many] want to learn to speak french. it amazes me how the viet namese embrace the french [ and the americans] after the french tried to enslave them and the americans tried to bomb them back to the stone age ... good people those viet namese... oh yeah , they have eliminated almost all structures [ i know of] put up by the americans but it is very rare to see an old french bunker or villa come down.[just check out da lat] for that matter i've seen much french archtecture remaining in lao & campuchia also. and oh yeah... nobody has better french fried potatoes !

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