[Newsbot]

Title: 'Little Saigon': Plan to rename Vancouver's Vietnamese community refuels old tensions
Category: lifestyle
Posted By: commanderkai
Date: 2011-12-05 02:53:56
Canadian

[Canadian_Mind]

If more than 90% of them want to call their neighbourhood "Little Siagon," let them.

[Freakinoldguy]

Chinatown, Little Italy, Gastown, Little Saigon, who cares other than than maybe the North Vietnamese and they can go fuck themselves and the communist horse they rode in on.

If this is what it takes to give the area some pride and sense of community spirit, then great.


I'm pretty sure if the North Vietnamese had lost the war there'd be a neighborhood in Moscow called Little Hanoi.

[ShepherdsDog]

Funny. if you fly into Tan Son Nhat International in Ho Chi Minh City, the IATA code is SGN for Saigon. Chances are it'll return to it's original name the same way St. Petersburg did. I grew up knowing it as Leningrad