Orange County Calif. has the largest population of Vietnamese people, outside of Vietnam.
Yesterday I talked with one, who is a manager of a local branch office of a major bank mortgage division.
Any way, he has relatives still living in Vietnam, and this fellow told me there are two classes in Vietnam: ...the same old poor workers, and the very rich who are connected to the communist government.
He stated the people in Vietnam cannot aspire to become part of a middle class, for one does not exist.
The enterprises utilizing workers in Vietnam are government run and/or connected.
Obviously my friend is pro-capitalism, anti-communism.
That is generally what happens, for people who have seen both systems operate; they are pro-capitalism.
Same applies for people I have met from Czech Republic, east Germany, Poland etc.
IOW results where the rubber meets the road, not high-brow philosophical debates.
bfl
The last GOP candidate to run against Loretta Sanchez in CA-46 was of Vietnamese descent. I am not sure if he is running again.