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From: dveditz@dbase.A-T.COM (Dan Veditz)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION to create SOC.CULTURE.VIETNAM
Keywords: social, culture, vietnam
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Date: 19 Jan 90 23:26:47 GMT
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Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
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tam@vega (Tam M. Nguyen) writes:
> An interesting suggestion as to "vietnamese" instead of "vietnam", but 
> I don't quite understand the reasoning behind it.  "vietnam" would keep the
> naming convention of soc.culture."china, hongkong, ..." 

And vietnamese would keep the naming convention of indian,korean,celtic...

Of the existing soc.culture groups, 10 refer to nationality ("vietnamese"), 
and 7 refer to geographical area ("vietnam"). (I counted 'asean' as an area,
and ignored 'misc'.)

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