My new Rocky work boots were made in Vietnam, I noticed. Good quality (so far, only a month)!
On the other hand, church mission teams deploying to Vietnam need tight operational security, to avoid being discovered and getting in big trouble for being Christian missionary teams. So, y'know. Plusses and minuses.
Dad never wanted anything more than for the people in Vietnam to be taken care of and not exploited, but that was going to happen regardless, the only question being how exploited and to what degree Vietnam's international partners -- whoever they were -- could reduce the exploitation. Vietnam is doing better now, but it isn't South Korea. Practically no one in Southeast Asia is South Korea, except for Japan obviously, and maybe Hong Kong -- for equally obvious reasons.
I'm glad the Vietnamese are doing better, but they could have been doing a lot better. Probably.
(Incidentally, South Korea also happens to be the world's top exporter of Christian missionaries
to the United States!
)
I'd be interested in watching the film, but it
is obviously political despite what they said. They're talking about making the movie to salute the soldiers who fought for peace in their fatherland; and they're necessarily making it under the Vietnamese governmental oversight. It's not that I even care that it's political so much -- the topic couldn't
not be political -- but the loopy disingenuousness is so...
sigh. I guess it's what they have to do, under the circumstances.
