Overseas Vietnamese (Vietnamese: Việt Kiều), refers to communities of Vietnamese living outside Vietnam in a diaspora. The term is usually used in Vietnam to refer to Vietnamese Americans from the United States and Vietnamese Europeans, either those who were born outside Vietnam, or fled as refugees after the unification of the country under the North Vietnamese in 1975. The term is often used towards members of the Vietnamese diaspora who return for visits or business. The term has been in use long prior to 1975. Of the about 3 million overseas Vietnamese, about 300,000 left before 1975 (mainly to neighboring countries and France). Look up Diaspora in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term diaspora (Greek διασποÏά, a scattering or sowing of seeds) is used (without capitalization) to refer to any people or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands, being dispersed throughout other parts of the world, and the ensuing... A Vietnamese American is a resident of the United States who is of ethnic Vietnamese descent. ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa), also known as North Vietnam, was founded by Ho Chi Minh and was recognized by China and the USSR in 1950. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
Etymology
Việt Kiều similar to the Chinese term Huaqiao for overseas Chinese. The qiao element, equivalent to Kiều in Vietnamese, signifies the diaspora community, with Hua indicating Chinese ethnicity, or in this case, Việt for "Vietnamese". Overseas Chinese (è¯åƒ‘ in pinyin: huáqiáo, or è¯èƒž huábÄo, or 僑胞 qiáobÄo) are ethnic Chinese who live outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. ... Han Chinese (Simplified: 汉; Traditional: 漢; Pinyin: hàn) is a term which refers to the majority ethnic group within China and the largest single human ethnic group in the world. ...
External links
The Viet Kieu Experience
The Six Faces: Viet Kieu - Overseas Vietnamese
Viet kieu invest in 1,300 domestic projects
Viet Kieu
Fund seeks to boost links with Viet kieu
Business Opportunities Draw Viet Kieu Back to Vietnam
Viet Kieu still discriminated against
A Viet Kieu Visits Her Homeland for the First Time
Vietnamese is generally said to be part of the Viet-Muong grouping of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family, a family that also includes Khmer, spoken in Cambodia, as well as various tribal and regional languages, such as the Munda languages, spoken in northeastern India, and others in southern China.
Vietnamese in the form of chữ nôm was used for administrative purposes during the brief Tay Son Dynasty.
Vietnamese vowels are all pronounced with an inherent tone (thanh or thanh điệu).
Vietnamese American businesses are ubiquitous in Little Saigon, located in Westminster and Garden Grove, where they constitute 30.7% and 21.4% of the population, respectively.
Vietnamese Americans regularly stage protests against the Vietnamese government, its human rights policy and those whom they perceive to be sympathetic to it.
In the Downtown San Jose area, many Vietnamese are working-class and are employed in many blue-collar positions such as restaurant cooks, repairmen, and movers, while the Evergreen and Berryessa sections of the city are affluent middle-class neighborhoods with large Vietnamese American populations, many of whom work in Silicon Valley's computer, networking, and aerospace industries.
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