Vietnam

[Vietnam]

Minh Huỳnh
-Vietnam-

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"For someone so young and naive
Hard to know what to believe
Still I thought I tried for a while
Turning round and giving up is not my style
On my own on my own way

Bottled up is where my fears go, my fears go
I will never show my fear
They'll tear me up until my tears show, my tears show
Smoke and mirrors"

Name: Minh Huỳnh
Origin: Hanoi, Vietnam
Gender: Female
Orientation: Bicurious
Languages Spoken: Vietnamese, English, Chinese
Birthday: September 2nd
Age: 24

Personality: Minh is a private person, she is the type that doesn't like anyone to be in her business. Quiet and patient, she would much rather stay in the background being a wallflower and just watch others talk and enjoy themselves without her being involved herself even among her own family. Preserving, responsible, and dutiful, she believes that rules should be followed, laws respected, and standards upheld.

Patient and responsible, she tries to make sure that everyone else holds the same high standards as she does, that everyone should be as dependable as she is. Because she does her work quietly and as efficiently as possible, her work usually goes unnoticed and unappreciated. Minh being as quiet and private as she is, she is considered to be hard-hearted and cold even though she is really is a woman made of good intentions and vulnerable to criticism. She is a woman who has a lack of trust in people and cynical in nature, in particular outsiders to her Asian family. Her friendships outside of the family for this woman had only caused problems and hardship, as is evidenced by her once-friendship with America and Russia.

Despite her private nature, Minh does try and be more social with people when something is a smaller affair though for her it is harder for her to be. She becomes shy whenever any sort of affair becomes larger than a few people, or if loud personalities surround her. Plain and down-to-earth, she is neat, orderly, and traditional. Despite all this, she has a fiery spirit and can have a heavy temper. Military-trained and trained in at least two forms of martial arts, she also carries a rice paddle/oar with her wherever she goes.

Appearance: -TBA-

Relationships:

-America: At one time, America and Vietnam could have considered to be friends. However, with the coming of the Cold War and the rivalry with Russia as well as his hatred and fear of Communism, led America to join the Vietnam War without provocation. The war is one of the causes for Minh lacking trust in outsiders as well as caused great social and political discord between the two. Despite diplomatic relations being opened again in 1995, she still hates America for everything that he did during the war. She knows that his boy was openly active against the war, for that she is at least grateful.

-China: Despite being the man who raised her, she still openly holds a great distrust for this man. Throughout history, she has always been suspicious that he would try and take over her country and be used as a strategic point. China was a big player in the Vietnam War, providing weapons, arms, and supplies to North Vietnam. She at first thought he was being helpful and trying to help her get rid of America, until she after the war realized otherwise. Since then, they have tried to regain good relational ties despite her continuing string of distrust.

-France: France came to her under the pretense of sending his Catholic missionaries in the early 17th century. Despite being taken as a colony of France and while being treated fairly well, conflicts both political and religious continued to rise. Local rulers were left during the first French-Indochina war until she finally got fed up with France and in 1954 gained her independence from France during the Indochina war. Despite gaining her independence, France continued to have a heavy influence in South Vietnam, which in turn had a large part in the coming of the Vietnam War. While strained, she at least tries to remain cordial to this man.

-Russia: Once powerful allies during the days of the USSR as well as gaining assistance from Russia during the Vietnam War against the South and America. As with many of the others that Ivan has come into contact with, their relationship was one of manipulation, blind following, and violence. She thought she could trust Russia due to the supposedly good relations that he had with China, not realizing the opposite until it was to late.

-Japan: Her brother, a man who has continuously aided her over the years through foreign aid and as an investor to her economy. Japan invaded her home at the beginning of WWII as a strategic base against the Allies and thus remained until their surrender in 1945. During the Vietnam War, he continued to push for negotiation settlements and reunification. Japan continues to help her through donation aid, she wishes to pay back her brother in any kind of way that she can.

-Taiwan: Mei is one of the most important people in her life, seeing her much as one that she needs to look after and protect no matter what the cost. One could say that she has a little bit of a crush on the girl, however she has a hard time actually expressing her true feelings to her.

History:

111 BC: The Nam Viet kingdom (spreading from the Red River delta to north of Canton) is annexed by the Han and becomes the Chinese district of Giao-chi. The next thousand years is marked by progress in civilization, but also in the national sentiment. Numerous uprisings most notably the Trung sisters (40-43) and Ly Bon (542-545) rebellions, are crushed. During the entire Vietnam history, China remains both a model and a threat.
602: Chinese rule is now a protectorate, the capital being Dai La Thanh (Hanoi)
939: Ngo Quyen frees the country (Dai Co Viet) by vanquishing Chinese armies at the Bach Dang River.
968: Dinh Bo Linh pacifies the country, and reorganizes it following the Chinese model. Mandarins are recruited by literary contests from 1075 (Van Mieu temple) to 1919. The capital moves to Hoa Lu with the Dinh and first Le dynasties.
1010: The Ly dynasty moves the capital to Thanh Long (Hanoi). During their reign, Chinese, Khmer, and Cham attacks are repelled (most notably by Ly Thuong Kiet). The expansion towards the South begins, with territories conquered from the Cham (this resulted in the destruction of their culture).
1226: Tran dynasty.
1288: After thirty years of periodic invasions, the Mongols are defeated by Tran Hung Dao at the Bach Dang River.
1407: Chinese occupation Ming.
1428: After his victory against the Chinese armies, with the aid of Nguyen Trai, Le Loi begins the second Le dynasty, which sees further annexations in the South.
1524: Beginning of a long period of political instability. While the Le governs only nominally, a feudal war rages between the Trinh from the North (Thang Long) and the Nguyen from the South (Hue).
1651: Jesuit Alexandres de Rhodes publishes in Roma a Latin Vietnamese catechism and creates the Ngoc Ngu, the roman-based script currently used for Vietnamese (Vietnam is only one of three countries in Asia which uses a roman-based script).
1771: The Tay Son brothers start a rebellion causing heavy warfare in the next thirty years. One of the brothers, Nguyen Hue, reigns as Quang Trung and defeats the Chinese army at Dong Da.
1802: After pushing back the Tay Son with the help of French mercenaries recruited by Jesuit Pigneau de Behaine, Nguyen Anh (the only survivor from the massacre of the Nguyens by the Tay Son brothers) changes his name to Gia Long and starts the Nguyen dynasty. The capital of the unified country is now Hue.
1858: The French navy attacks Da Nang.
1867: Cochinchina (the South) becomes a French Colony.
1883: Tonkin (the North) and Annam (the Center) become French protectorates.
1887: Creation of the Indochina Union, Cochinchina, Annam, Tonkin, Cambodia, and latter Laos.
1932: Bao Dai, the last emperor, begins his reign as an infant.
1940: Invasion of Indochina by Japan. The French administrations collaborate and continue to run the government.
1941: Ho Chi Minh starts the Viet Minh. Leninism is thought of as an ideological weapon to serve Vietnamese nationalism against French colonialism.
1945 (March 9): The Japanese end up French authority. (Aug 19): The Viet Minh starts a general popular insurrection. Bao Dai abdicates. (Sept 2): Ho Chi Minh declares independence in Hanoi. US agents stand at his side. (Sept 23): The French authorities reoccupy the South.
1946: After the failed Fontainebleau conference between Ho Chi Minh and the French government, notably about the question of the status of Cochinchina, and the bombing of Haiphong (6000 civilians killed), the war between the French troops and the Viet Minh for the control of Vietnam begins.
1954: The bulk of the French army is defeated at Dien Bien Phu. This is the first time in history a colonial power is militarily defeated, a massive decolonization follows worldwide. At the Geneva conference, the country is partitioned at the 17th parallel as an interim stage. The North becomes the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, a communist state supported by China and the USSR. The strict communist ideology began to prevail at the 2nd congress of the Vietnamese labor party in 1951.
1955: Refusing to implement the Geneva accords, Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims himself president of the Republic of South Vietnam with backing from the West.
1959: The communist party decides to start military operations in the South. Construction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
1961: Kennedy increases US military aid to South Vietnam, first in the form of military advisors (16000 by 1965).
1963: Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated in a US-initiated coup.
1964: Although elected as a dovish candidate against Goldwater, Johnson escalates the war. All but two US senators pass the "Tonkin Gulf resolution", which gives blank checks to US presidents over Vietnam.
1965 (Feb): First US aerial raids against the North. The tonnage of bombs, including chemical arms, used during the US intervention (mostly against civilian targets) in Vietnam exceeds that used during the whole WW II. (March). First US troops in Danang. Their number will grow up to more half a million. Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president.
1968 (Jan 31): The Viet Cong's Tet offensive, although a military failure, stuns the West and becomes a psychological turning point as it makes the public aware of the nature of the war and the impasse. Anti-war movements begin in the West, and are fuelled in the US by the revelation of the "Pentagon papers" in 1971 which show how US presidents had deceitfully handled the matter. Negotiations begin in Paris, but in the while military escalation continues.
1973: After the ratification of the Paris accords, the US military withdraws.
1975 (April 30): Viet Cong troops enter Saigon, after a two-month campaign in spite of the Paris accords.
1976: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is officially proclaimed.
1978: Vietnam joins the USSR-lead Comecon. The tragedy of the Hai Hong, old cargo boat overloaded with refugees brings to the world attention about the "boat people" fleeing the new regime. They will total more than half a million people.
1979 (Jan): Vietnamese troops enter Phnom Penh and end the murderous Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. (Feb): A retaliatory invasion from China is repelled during a month-long war.
1987: A law on foreign investments marks the beginning of the liberalization of the economy (but not of politics, see also China and other Asian countries). The first tourists visit the country.
1989: Withdrawal from Cambodia. This is the first time for half a century that Vietnam is not engaged in any war.
1991: Relationships are normalized with China (note that this year saw the collapse of the USSR).
1995: Diplomatic relationships are fully normalized with the US, one year after the end of the US embargo.

Likes:

-Her Asian family
-Hard work
-Farming
-Good food
-Martial arts
-Thailand
-Privacy
-Taiwan

Dislikes:

-America
-Russia
-France
-Thailand
-War and conflict
-Showing weakness
-Clowns
-Politics

Hobbies:

-Farming
-Martial arts
-Cooking

Random Quirks:

-Carries a rice paddle with her
-Has a verbal tic of "-ahen".
-Plays with her hair when she talks
-As she gets angry, she begins to speak with a heavily thick Vietnamese accent

Roleplay Sample

See America~

Roleplayer: Merface

Password: Hetalia Rocks.

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[China]

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