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Subject: Re: [Leica] New Street Photos from Hanoi.
From: "Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 21:22:32 -0700
References: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOOEEKDMAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net>

I understand what Oliver is seeing.   I traveled to Hanoi in 1999 along with
visiting other countries in the area, Tailand, Maylasia and Singapore.  I
have traveled to Japan, Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong  and Teipei.

Viet Nam is distinctly different and most typical of a communist country as
is the PRC.  These same characteristics were visible in Eastern Bloc
countries in Europe and in Russia, which I have visited.

Liberal denial does not change the landscape.

Roland Smith
Oakland, California
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] New Street Photos from Hanoi.


> I thought that's what you meant, Oliver. And, based on your name, I'm
going
> to guess you're Vietnamese and your family was on the losing end of that
> ugly conflict, so your reaction is understandable.
>
> I don't want you to think for a minute that I am sympathetic toward
> Communist governments or Communism. But I do believe that what is seen in
> those photos is, as I said, seen throughout Asia. Indeed, it is seen
> throughout the world - there are folks who sleep in alleys in the U.S.,
and
> people who sell goods from baskets here.
>
> The sad reality is that, in most cases, the suffering of people on the
> bottom of any heap has to do more with the failures of Capitalism - a
system
> which has certainly improved the lives of countless 10s of millions of
> people - than it does the evils of Communism, an utterly failed and
> discredited experiment.
>
> B. D.
>
> B. D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of olivier
> nguyen
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:33 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] New Street Photos from Hanoi.
>
>
> Hi B.D,
> B.D, I don't know how to say this but that is how i feel about those
> pictures.  a communist leader who make the country weaker and screwup
entire
> country. a couple sleep in pavement, a woman sell good with her basket.
it
> give me an impression of poverty, politic and bad leadership that lead the
> country to poverty end.
>
> I am sorry to Clif if my previous post was directly against you.  I did
not
> mean it at all.
>
> Olivier Nguyen
>
>
> >From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> >Subject: RE: [Leica] New Street Photos from Hanoi.
> >Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:25:12 -0400
> >
> >I don't want to start something here, Oliver, but I don't understand what
> >any of these photos have to do with Communism, other than the fact that
one
> >has a poster of Ho Chi Minh. Other than the photo with the Ho poster,
these
> >photos could have been taken in virtually any city in any nation in Asia.
> >
> >B. D.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of olivier
> >nguyen
> >Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:58 PM
> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >Subject: Re: [Leica] New Street Photos from Hanoi.
> >
> >
> >good place for street photography.  1,3,5 are product of communism or
what
> >i
> >call idiotic of VC
> >:((
> >too bad
> >
> >
> > >From: clifford wright <skidoophoto@yahoo.com>
> > >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > >Subject: [Leica] New Street Photos from Hanoi.
> > >Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:44:32 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > >
> > >This is my first time on the LUG!
> > >I just uploaded a few street photos taken in Hanoi
> > >last
> > >summer with a M4-P and 35 and 50 summicrons at
> > >http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=209735
> > >There's more on the way.
> > >Let me know what you think.
> > >Thanks,
> > >Clif
> > >
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