A Vietnamese woman in a red ao dai poses for a photo at Nam Nha Pagoda in the Mekong Delta. The Chinese characters on the scroll speaks of centuries of Chinese immigration and influence on many aspects of Vietnamese culture. Vietnam was ruled by China for thousands of years until they threw off the Chinese yoke and became a tributary state. Over the centuries, many Chinese immigrants filtered into south Vietnamese society and eventually comprised the majority of the business class. This was true until 1975 when the North Vietnamese Communist Party confiscated their businesses and property and many south Vietnamese of Chinese descent fled the country and became part of today's Vietnamese diaspora.
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Green Hairstreak : Callophrys rubi
Family:Lycaenidae
Subfamily:Theclinae
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Green Hairstreak : Callophrys rubi
Family:Lycaenidae
Subfamily:Theclinae
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