A tale of two regions: how Vietnam manages to control the ethnic regions?
I've spent most of my times trying to go to various ethnic regions across the country. But two of the most important ethnic regions in Vietnam happen to be in the western frontier of Vietnam. The first is called Northwest (Tay Bac). The second is in the south, called Central Highlands, though the Vietnamese translation is Tay Nguyen (Western Highlands) made it conflicted. The odd thing I know from them is their vary fascinating and unique history, these people are not just only different from the lowland Vietnamese by heritage, but even by culture. Yet the government of Vietnam maintains a very multifaceted relationship with both regions, but history may tell there is nothing similar outside the common background of being from the ethnic minorities' zones. Northwest Vietnam: kind of... a model... Northwest Vietnam is composed of six provinces today, they're Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Son La, Hoa Binh, Lao Cai and Yen Bai. Some provinces like Tuyen Quang, Phu Tho and Ha Giang are ...