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One With the Water: Life in Vietnam's Mekong Delta |
| Section: CULTURE / PATTERNS |
| Author: Mark Downey |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 609 Words, 3,598 Characters |
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The Mekong River crosses six countries and spans over 3,000 miles on its journey to the sea. Over 60 million people depend on it and its tributaries for food, transport, and livelihood. To varying degrees, the Mekong sustains the peoples of China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Nowhere is the connection more pronounced than in Vietnam, where the Meko...
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...ls for a better shot or an exchange of warm greetings. The hospitality of the Vietnamese toward a stranger and obvious outsider astonished me, especially considering the not so distant memory of war fought in this very delta. Time, like the river, seems able to wash everything away. I felt that the people and the river were truly inseparable, to the point where they sometimes seemed to be one.
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