What is Vietnamese people?
The '''Vietnamese''' are a [[ethnicity|group of people with their own culture]] living in [[Southeast Asia]]. Most Vietnamese live in the country of [[Vietnam]], although there are many Vietnamese people living in other places. Many Vietnamese people speak [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]. == History == The Vietnamese people could be a mixture of different groups from different parts of Asia. According to legend, the Vietnamese people are the children of a dragon and a fairy. Many Vietnamese girls and women were trafficked into [[China]] in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lessard |first1=Micheline |title=Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |location=Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series |isbn=978-1317536215 |edition=illustrated |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r2OhCAAAQBAJ&dq=In+a+letter+to+the+Governor+General,+the+RST+wrote+in+April+of+that+year+that+%E2%80%9Cthese+kidnappings+of+women+and+children+are+...+Explanations+being+requested,+the+fishermen+informed+me+that+these+two+Chinese+had+been+arrested+by+them+that+...&pg=PT211}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service |title=Daily Report: People's Republic of China, Números 127-133 |date=1990 |publisher=National Technical Information Service |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HLosAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Shenzhen+stock+market+,+with+daily+transactions+averaging+five+million+yuan+,+is+the+largest+on+China%27s+mainland+.+...+selling+and+smuggling+of+Vietnamese+women+have+seriously+menaced+security+and+stability+of+the+border+region+.}}</ref> Chinese pirates in the Tonking Gulf region took Vietnamese women as wives.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=ANTONY |first1=ROBERT J. |title=Violence and Predation on the Sino-Vietnamese Maritime Frontier, 1450–1850. |journal=Asia Major |date=2014 |volume=27 |issue=2 |page=104 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44740552 |publisher=Academia Sinica|jstor=44740552 }}</ref> In the Gulf of Tonkin Vietnamese pirates were defeated in 1