Tuesday, January 28, 2014

What Do You Call the Chinese Vietnamese Lunar New Year Tet Day?



Trang Vi King
im wondering wat foreigner are calling Tet for, Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year?
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  • You and Wành Dinamite like this.
  • Max Mcternan Vietnamese New Year. 😐
    3 hours ago · Like · 6
  • Trang Vi King seriously? :))
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  • Rob Joseph Tet
    2 hours ago · Like · 4
  • 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 
    about an hour ago · Like · 7
  • 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.
    about an hour ago · Like · 7
  • 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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  • 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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  • Tai Chinh Saigon can you ask a smarter question next time??? or wiki it before asking!
    53 minutes ago · Like · 1
  • 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 ev...See More
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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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