Because many people live in Vietnam in their hearts and their minds, we will dedicate this part to those who are looking for their roots.

You will meet here some overseas Vietnamese who have decided to come back to Vietnam, sometimes to make a living.

Synopsis

"While their Chinese, Japanese, Cham neighbors have the reputation to be great fishermen and adventurers, Vietnamese live, as possible as they can, with their back toward the sea. Even to the extreme limit of poverty, they stick to their fields even against the threat of the Ocean itself.... keeping to the earth all their trust and their preference".

These considerations, written in the middle of the 1960's, aimed to focus on a distinctive feature of the Vietnamese people, that is, its attachment to the motherland and its reluctance for long and far expatriations.

Centuries of history, during which neither bloody wars, periods of foreign occupation, nor periods of starvations, are proofs of the stability of the population and of the tight bonds that unify it to its own land. Only extraordinary events would have untied those links...

A massive exodus, unthinkable just a few years before will bring hundreds of thousands people far from their motherland. The Vietnamese Diaspora, that was till that moment limited to only 170 000 people, grew to reach within two decades more than two millions people in the whole world...

Sources: EDA

 
   

>> Vietnamese Diaspora in the world nowadays (Estimations)

1.300.000 in USA

250.000 in France.

300.000 in Russia and Eastern Europe Countries

120.000 in Canada.

100.000 in Germany.

30.000 in the United Kingdom.

110.000 in Australia.

100.000 in Thailand...