Tuesday, January 28, 2014

More on is it called Tet?


Trang Vi King
im wondering wat foreigner are calling Tet for, Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year?
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  • Max Mcternan Vietnamese New Year. 😐
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  • Trang Vi King seriously? :))
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  • Rob Joseph Tet
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  • Jason Ovenden Tet
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  • Le Son Tung Surely Tet.
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  • Vu Ho Party time.
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  • Tuyet Huynh calling Chinese New Year
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  • Tiffany Lo Making money time lol
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  • Ben Ngo Tet
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  • Colin Connelly Tet
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  • Will Brantingham Tet or lunisolar new year.
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  • Gà Siêu Tết
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  • Johan Danial Im calling it as Chinese New Year
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  • Scott Sheppard Boring-as-hell-time....because everything shuts down! One reason to get out and go visit another country that doesn't shut down for 2 weeks 
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  • Rob Joseph Come to Aus Scott Sheppard. trouble is flights in and out of Asia at this time of year are so expensive
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  • Scott Sheppard Rob Joseph, last time we went back to OZ (3 years ago) we spent a years worth of savings in 4 weeks! One reason we are dreading going back when the kids are ready for high school...all our friends back there say it is only getting harder and harder to survive. We are sitting in Siem Reap and relaxing for 2 weeks in the warm weather, non-polluted air before we head back to Ha Noi 
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  • Danny McPhamme Oh if u want to live, say lunar. My friends used to troll me, calling it Chinese's new year and me hopelessly clueless trying to correct them, purely on a academic point of view of course, that it should be called lunar new year as not only the Chinese used lunar calendar. That and the fact that I don't like Chinese lol
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  • Rob Joseph I will be moving permanantly to VN within the next couple of years, I canf afford OZ
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  • Ben Robinson Refugee status Rob? 
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  • Rob Joseph economic refugee Ben Robinson
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  • Ben Robinson It's very different. Vietnamese people celebrate the Lunar New Year by trying to drink all the beer in the world, and then commit suicide on a motorcycle. The Chinese just try to blow the entire world up with fireworks.
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  • Scott Sheppard The trouble Rob Josephi is that the Government is making it more and more difficult for foreigners to stay here. Even if you do it the right way it is becoming a pain in the arse. They just dropped the Work Permits from 3 years to 2, and the Residents Cards as well plus added a shit load more hoops to jump through. After 4 years here this year has been the worst and cost us the most, even though we have Work Permits and a Work Visa. Our friends who came to visit got stung big time when the price of the Tourist Visas went up but now you could only get a month one instead of 3 months. The Government in Viet Nam really needs to look at how the countries around them handle tourist/workers and learn some valuable lessons.
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  • Rob Joseph Interestingly, in the 3 months to end of March last year, Australia received over 500 Vietnamese boat people....talk about grass being greener
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  • Trang Vi King check this out. there is a short scene of Tet in the vid. though i know this is just entertainment but not so many of them recognize the difference of the 2 celebrationshttp://youtu.be/kITSHko2sHc
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  • Rob Joseph I think being married to a Viet national helps, I currently have a 5 year visa exemption
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  • Ben Robinson What kills me is all the Aussies here who are living here (and sometimes working too) illegally on tourist visa's, who sit around in bars all day complaining about boatloads of people going to Australia. (Not aimed at anyone here btw)
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  • Nhat Hoang Long Just TẾT
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  • Rob Joseph cheaper to drink beer there. Probably getting the dole or disability pension
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  • Tat Wa Lay I call it "TET Vietnamese Chinese Lunar New Year"

    Just to be politically correct. 
    Don't want to offend Vietnamese people, Chinese people and certainly don't want to offend the moon.
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  • Rob Joseph First New Moon of the Year?
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  • Xu Do Lunar New Year, we don't celebrate Chinese's New Year! 
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  • Andy Rezin Tet!
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  • Tai Chinh Saigon can you ask a smarter question next time??? or wiki it before asking!
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  • Xu Do Sure I often introduced my friends its Tet and with (Lunar New Year)
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  • Ben Robinson It's a fair question, I know many foreigners call it Chinese New Year, that is what it's known as most commonly abroad.
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  • Xu Do It should be changed nowadays, as many expats experience Lunar New Year in Vietnam, they know it Tet and as many people call it Tet, it would be Tet. I just wanna make it clear that Chinese is Chinese and Vietnamese is Vietnamese, especially in the south of Vietnam.
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  • Cheryl Lee Vietnamese people won't celebrate Chinese New Year or Chinese festival,,etc..in VietNam. We are not Chinese. Thinking about Hoang Sa, Truong Sa and feeling hate Chinese..haha.. Happy Tet (Lunar New Year) to everyone. Cheers!
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  • Seb Urinovsky I thought it was called "New Year: part 2 - Revenge of the Ruou".
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  • Tuyet Huynh Almost when i said Lunar New Year or Tet holiday, nobody is foreigners know that and they think im crazy girl but after that i called Chinese New Year, they know that. That's true.But we lived in VietNam so we will respect and calling Tet holiday so every conutry will have another name to call for this holiday so don't be angry or comparing about Chinese and Vietnamese again!! Let your spirit soar and have a joy-fiiled new year!
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  • Moh An Lunar new year! ( this does not just belong to chinese alone)
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  • Jason Rouzaire I'm brand agnostic. Having a home in both Hong Kong and Vietnam, working with Chinese, having a Vietnamese wife and having many Chinese and Vietnamese friends, I call it Lunar New Year - As that what it is no matter what nationality or language you speak.
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  • Cheryl Lee We should change their thinking and let them know what's right.. they should call it is Tet or Lunar New Year in VietNam.. Not angry or complain but should be right.
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  • Le Quang If they are lving in here, just call Tết
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  • Joey Arnold Lunar New Year
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  • Joey Arnold Xu Do, Vietnamese people do not celebrate the Chinese New Year? I do not understand. Isn't the Chinese New Year based on the Lunar Calender? Plus, isn't the Vietnamese New Year based on that same Lunar Calender? Therefore, isn't the Chinese and Vietnamese New Years celebrated on the same days each year? I say that both are similar and both occur pretty much around the same time.

    Saying that Vietnamese people do not celebrate the Chinese New Year is like saying you do not celebrate your birthday if you celebrate your birthday differently.

    It is like saying you do not celebrate African Christmas, that is if you celebrate Australian Christmas. Sure, you may have different traditions and there may be some differences between African Christmas and Brazil Christmas, but they both surely celebrate the same Christmas, just differently.

    Likewise, Chinese and Vietnamese people both celebrate the Lunar New Year (or "TET" in Vietnam) but just slightly differently in some of the minor details, but they both basically celebrate the same holiday which has the same purpose basically to some extent if you know what I mean or not haha.
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  • Walter Hanagriff III Didnt chinese originate the lunar new year? I know that vietnam got Tet basically from the chinese. They still do many things that they got from the chinese occupation long ago just like they kept some things from the french occupation awhile back. I have known of the name Lunar new year for a long time, but I have just called it chinese new year most often. Of course I call it Tet while I am here since all my vietnamese friends and everything here labels it Tet. For me, its never going to be important what I call it. I will call it tet when I speak for what happens in vietnam, no matter where I go, but when I speak about the same new year outside of vietnam, i just call it chinese new year 
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  • Jason Rouzaire In Chinese (putonghua), they call it 农历新年 - which translates in English to Lunar New Year. However all over China, Hong Kong and other Cantonese/Putonghua speaking countries, I see it in English written as Chinese New Year.
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  • Jason Rouzaire Walter Hanagriff III: The whole Vietnamese language and names are derivatives of Cantonese. Up to the 16th century and beyond Vietnamese were writing in Pinyin. The language, religion and even the food are derivatives of Southern Chinese from Canton and surrounding areas.
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  • Ben Robinson Actually Walter, the Lunar New Year was held everywhere in the world, it was the Romans that switched it to the Solar year in the west because the Lunar Year was not a good guide of when to plant and harvest crops.
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  • Danny McPhamme It's not so much the new year, its the name, if u live in Vietnam then you really should know the majority of viet don't like Chinese and I won't delve into why.
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  • Cheryl Lee general, yes you are right somehow, but we would like people to know that we don't call it is Chinese New Year, we are not Chinese. We call it is Tet as traditional language, and people can call it is Lunar New Year. We have many similar things with Chinese because the story from long time (its concerned to policy, I don't wanna mention) but we got freedom and we don't want to have things called is Chinese anymore.
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  • Jason Rouzaire Mainland Chinese are universally disliked by their other Chinese "cousins". Just ask any Hong Konger, Taiwanese or Singaporean. Hong Kongers call them locusts.
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  • Walter Hanagriff III Well, i will give you that Ben Robinson, but the chinese won this one in asia where many of the countries got it from the chinese anyway. Its all irrelevent because its just a name thats convenient to explain a concept. I will keep my habits that I explained above because theres no loss to it and no gain to change outside of some semantics.
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  • Joey Arnold The written history of China seems to go back farther than other countries. Therefore, we may want to assume that the Lunar New Year was first official and first celebrated in China possibly around 4,000 or more years ago. The history of Vietnam may only go back to around 3,000 years. Therefore, which came first, the chicken or the egg?

    In other words, which nation is older, China or Vietnam? I will give the ownership and rights of this holiday to the older nation.
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  • Ben Robinson that's just envy because now the mainland Chinese have all the money, and money is the one and only thing HK, Taiwanese and Singaporean people can ever care about.
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  • Ben Robinson well Joey, both China and Vietnam are less than 100 years old, so you are way, way off the mark there.
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  • Jason Rouzaire Yeah. Thank "cultural revolutions" and "communism" for that. It's a great way to make a society to culturally regress and become selfish and greedy.
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  • Joey Arnold Ben Robinson, China and Vietnam had kings for centuries and centuries. The Great Wall of China was not built in a day and it wasn't built yesterday either and it is not like I was born yesterday.
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  • Lilly Nguyen Wow new to me! I would just call it's Tet holiday lol and seems like everyone would know!
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  • Walter Hanagriff III Joey Arnold, i think most of us agree that it should be Tet when referring to vietnam, and whatever you are comfortable with in another country unless they have their own name. Age doesnt matter. But surprisingly, they say scotland had the first known ...See More
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  • Ben Robinson Joey, neither China or Vietnam has existed for 'centuries and centuries'. Back to school with you, learn some history.
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  • Joey Arnold Ben Robinson, when was the Great Wall of China constructed? What year and how long did it take for people to make the Wall of China?
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  • Ben Robinson What we now call 'The Great Wall of China' was never called that by anyone until english speaking people heard of it. Chinese people don't call their country 'China', or themselves 'Chinese'. The Chinese people were a culture and a civilisation, not a country or a nationality, both of those are recent developments. You do not know what you are talking about. Go read a book.
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  • Danny McPhamme Joey Arnold just a small reminder When in Rome ...mister teacher
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  • Tuyet Huynh Joey!! if you stayed in Vietnam, let's call Tet holiday or Lunar New Year but if you stay abroad, let's call Chinese New Year! just popular like this!!
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  • Joey Arnold Ben Robinson, you did not answer my question. I am not talking about the official name of the wall. I did not ask what people call the wall. I know that they did not speak English back then. There was no English back then. I am asking about when was the wall made.
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  • Phil Clarke I just watched a doco on the Great Wall of China - apparently it's not one big wall, but several individual walls which don't all connect. First wall started about 200BC. Last wall finished (except for plastering and electrical sockets) about 400 years ago, some time during Tet.
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  • Rob Joseph Did they call it "The Chinese New Year Offensive" or "The Tet Offensive"?
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  • Ben Robinson I'm not going to teach you for free. You want a history lesson, you can pay for it. I'm sure you understand the concept, Mr. Teacher.
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  • Rob Joseph Just Googled it, is was called "Tet Offensive",46th Anniversary 30/31 Jan this year. ie occurred in 1968.
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  • Joey Arnold Ben Robinson, the ancestors of Chinese people were living in the same general area. When I talk about China, I am not just talking about the current new state of China. I am talking about the geographical area and about the heredity of those people. I understand that there were many different kingdoms in Asia, and that empires rises and falls, but I am not really directly ignoring that but instead I am overlooking those exact details. 

    When I say that China has been celebrating Tet for centuries longer than Vietnam, I am referring to the ancestors of Chinese and other Asian-like people in this generic geographical area of eastern Asia.
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