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According to 2009 census, there are 18,444 ethnic Hoa in Bắc Giang province, the majority of them living in Lục Ngạn district. However, some ethnic Hoa identify themselves as Nùng or Sán Chay. [316] Chinese Nùng and Ngái: The Nùng are a Tai ethnic group in Vietnam, related to the Zhuang of China. The Chinese Nùng are Cantonese and ...
Bà Chúa Xứ's ethnicity has been identified by some as the same as the Cham goddess Po Inu Nagar (Vietnamese people have Vietnameseized this goddess into Thiên Y A Na), the Chinese goddess Mazu, a Khmer Black Lady or even as Quan Âm. Despite the adoption of Chinese, Khmer, and Cham ethnic traits, she is an example of a being who accepts ...
The Ba Chúc massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát Ba Chúc) was the mass killing of 3,157 civilians in Ba Chúc, An Giang Province, Vietnam, by the Kampuchea Revolutionary Army (Khmer Rouge) from April 18 to 30, 1978. It was a spillover of the Cambodian genocide which also targeted Vietnamese people mainly in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge took the ...
The Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA; Vietnamese: Uỷ ban Dân tộc, lit. 'Ethnic Committee') is a ministry -level agency in Vietnam that exercises the functions of state management on ethnic minority affairs nationwide.
The Cor people used to maintain a chieftain system. The village chief (Karah Pley) is the head of the community (Pley). The village chief is chosen on the basis of knowledge, experience and the trust of villagers. Each village organise a body of militias called Lok kok or Lok kal (lit. "Brave men") for self-defense.
The ethnic Zhuang was a product of the "ethnic identification project" pursued in 1950s China. [6] Many scholars of the Tai peoples consider the Zhuang and Nùng to be essentially the same people, a single ethnic group. [7] During the early 11th century, ethnic identities and boundaries were more fluid than in the modern Sino-Vietnamese borderland.
By the end of the 17th century, the Lê dynasty sent ethnic Vietnamese officials to the area to supervise the Thais. After Gia Long started the Nguyễn dynasty, he changed the region to the trấn of Tuyên Quang, and it became a province under the rule of his successor Emperor Minh Mạng .
Lembong's father resided in Manado, the ancestral homeland of the Minahasan ethnic group, implying a possible adoption of Indonesian surnames influenced by the region's geography or neighboring ethnic communities. [17] Another example of this phenomenon is the Moluccan surname Afaratu. [15]