There is a short summary about Sino-Vietnam war being taught in school, as for the “agree to turn a new leaf and let bygones be bygones in 1991”. It is true until the territory dispute broke out in South China Sea and now it just nothing more than a mere word. The Vietnamese citizen are generally furious about that, the pro ROVN government and the ultra nationalist Vietnamese just making it worse.
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I mean that ABCs in the west, being the minority, tend to band together with other ABCs and view society in an 'us vs them' sense. That is, their worldview tends to be more stratified along the lines of ethnicity rather than citizenship or nationality. Hence why they are more supportive of China, because there is a shared ethnic heritage there.
Anyway, I agree with the rest of your post, I just find it hilarious how ~50% of westerners unironically believe Singapore to be a Chinese province or city. So it doesn't matter if you consider yourself Singaporean first when most foreigners are still going to classify you as a Chinaman.
Are the Vietnamese people aware of the power disparity between China and Vietnam or do they resemble the Jai Hind crowd in their levels of delusion?
The Vietnamese in general are aware of the power disparity between China and Vietnam. But the pro ROVN and ultra nationalist one is the Jai Hind type, those one occupies quite a large number of population ( around 30% - 40% )
What would you say the ratio of pro-CCP to pro-US is like among Vietnamese Chinese?
Also do you guys face any discriminatory laws like Chinese do in Malaysia?
I think something like that is really hard to tell/gauge at the end of the day (and polls can't just easily be trusted either).
Although we can safely say there 100% is a subset (probably not small at all) of rather nationalistic and anti-China/anti-CPC vietnamese people, but at the same time, there very much is also many who do like China and is pro-CPC.
Although I can't put any numbers, nor am I sure of which side outnumbers the other (would not be surprised if either outnumbered the other).
I would say the pro-CCP Vietnamese Chinese is lesser than 15%, the rest is pro-Us.
We do face some discriminatory laws in the past ( 1976 - 1986 to be precise). At that time, all Chinese newspapers are closed, followed by Chinese schools, the government confiscated the Chinese property ( my family was a victim of that incident too ). Large and small enterprises of Chinese were nationalized. The economic position of the majority of Chinese bourgeoisie was abolished, and the state tightened control of the economy. The government also took over the Chong Chinh hospital build by Chinese. The government also try to get rid of the Chinese ethnic out of Vietnam. But after 1986, the situation was improved, no more discriminatory law against the Chinese.
Filipinos are like this too to a certain degree, which is why the biggest hater on Filipinos abroad are their own kind. It's not enough that they ought to be proud of whatever good accomplishments their fellow compatriots did but instead, they would make sparky, insulting remarks to try and diminish that said person as nothing burger.
You grew in Canada too eh? Goof for you, at least you're able to experience the good sunny weather of Australia compared to the usual winter wonderland that's the beauty of Canada. But if your base was Vancouver, then it's nothing but miserable rain surrounded by gorgeous mountains and sea of drug addicts.