Houston Community College is set to bestow an honorary degree on a Vietnamese-American businessman this week-end, but the plan drew an objection from anti-communist quarters who criticize the honoree’s meeting with the Vietnamese ambassador at a business seminar.
HCC’s 2008 commencement this Saturday will honor Danny Quoc Nguyen (pictured), a real-estate investor and president of the Vietnamese-American Chamber of Commerce. Nguyen is also known by his full name Danny Quoc Doan Nguyen.
Nguyen, however, has been catching flaks for speaking at an event organized by Greater Houston Partnership where Vietnam’s ambassador Le Cong Phung was the invited speaker. Phung’s talk (video here) was entitled “Vietnam – US Relations, Opportunities for Doing Business & Making New Investments in Vietnam.” Many consider doing business and investing in Vietnam an act of propping up the dictatorship there.
One objector, Luan Nguyen, has circulated on the internet his letter to the Board of Trustees of HCC. The letter says, in part, “we discovered to our dismay that Mr. Nguyen had gone against the will of majority of Vietnamese Americans in the US by assisting the ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRVN) to promote doing business in that country without revealing to the participants the high political, social and economic risks associated with this oppressive communist regime.”
Danny Nguyen’s opponents have posted on YouTube the video of his speech at the luncheon. His picture above was taken from the video.
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The painful fact has been revealed: The anti-communist people of Vietnamese descent have DOUBLE STANDARD. They only prey on their own kind. When a Caucasian American promotes investment and doing business in Vietnam, no one would do anything about that. But, when an American of Vietnamese descent has the same idea, he runs a big risk of being defamed, intimidated, or even getting bodily harm. No wonder the anti-communist Vietnamese are losing the public’s sympathy more and more (without being aware of that loss)!
The anti-communist people of Vietnamese descent have DOUBLE STANDARD.
Easy to understand. Heresy is a worse crime than non-belief.
Perhaps we are all aware by now of the 1954 letter of Albert Einstein being sold for $404,000. In this letter, the view of The Person of the Century about his own people may encourage us Vietnamese to re-think about our own kind. Here is the link: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/vdunet/20080516/ttc-einstein-letter-sells-for-170000-6315470.html
What is truly sad is that some believe they can do business without any principles at all. I think it is time all Americans find themselves again and remember what our founding principles stand for.