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  2. Culture of Vanuatu - Wikipedia

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    Vanuatu may be divided into three major cultural regions. In the north, wealth is established by how much one can give away, through a system of grade-taking. Pigs, particularly those with rounded tusks, are considered a symbol of wealth throughout Vanuatu. In the center, more traditional Melanesian cultural systems dominate.

  3. Vietnamese people in Vanuatu - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese population in Vanuatu has its origins during the French colonization of Vanuatu, under which it was known as the New Hebrides.During the 1920s and 1930s, the French recruited laborers from Vietnam, especially the provinces of Ninh Bình, Nam Định, and Thái Bình in the Red River Delta area, which at the time was facing poverty and famine, to work on plantations in Vanuatu.

  4. Vanuatu - Wikipedia

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    Vanuatu culture may be divided into three major cultural regions. In the north, wealth is established by how much one can give away through a grade-taking system. Pigs, particularly those with rounded tusks, are considered a symbol of wealth throughout Vanuatu. In the centre, more traditional Melanesian cultural systems dominate.

  5. Category:Culture of Vanuatu - Wikipedia

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    Tiếng Việt; 中文; Edit links ... Pages in category "Culture of Vanuatu" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... additional terms may ...

  6. Category:Vanuatu - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Avañe'ẽ; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; Basa Bali; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân ...

  7. Vũng Tàu - Wikipedia

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    As in most provinces and cities in Vietnam, Buddhism is the predominant religion. Mahayana Buddhism, the dominant form of the religion in Vietnam, was brought to Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu by the Vietnamese settlers from the north at the beginning of the 17th century during the expansion of the Nguyễn lords. When they came bringing their original ...

  8. Ca trù - Wikipedia

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    What is known for sure is that ca trù started off like many of Vietnam's arts as being a form of entertainment for the royal court. Officially ca tru count the age of their profession since The Later Le dynasty ( Vietnamese : Nhà Hậu Lê , 1428–1789), at that time musicians called Vietnamese : hát khuôn performed only on religious court ...

  9. Thích Nhật Từ - Wikipedia

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    He is also the Abbot of Huong Son temple (Ha Tinh), Quan Am Dong Hai temple (Soc Trang), and Giac Ngo temple (Ba Ria - Vung Tau). [ 2 ] In 1992 he went to India for higher education and got his MA degree in philosophy in 1997 from Delhi University and D.Phil. degree from Allahabad University in 2001, respectively.