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This article is perhaps written by an oversea Vietnamese who possesses hatred to the current Communist regime in Vietnam, and do not know much about Dalat of today. In his eyes, the Communist regime has been spoiling the city, but the fact is not like this: Dalat is currently the most beautiful city of Vietnam, and has developped much in recent years. The author has no word about the famous Flower Festival which is held there annually. He didn't mention either the fact that colonial Dalat was reserved for French, and Vietnamese couldn't go there without special permissions.
I'd intended to cut some biased part of the article, however I can't do this since it would destroy the construction of the article. I suggest someone rewrite this article. If no one is willing to, I will.
- I'm an Englishman in Dalat now. The centre is like any other Vietnamese city. Larger properties have been replaced by smaller concrete high rises (numbered e.g. 26A, 26B, ..., 26G) and they are typically ugly.
- Earlier today I was at the house of a fifty-ish Vietnamese chap. The view from his house is of a hillside covered in garish concrete hotels and shops with corrugated iron roofs. He grumbled that it used to be a green hill with a single house on it.
- Dalat probably remains the most beautiful city in Vietnam, and it has developed much. But the development is destroying the beauty. 21st April 2007.
i delete the external links of the dalat international highschool in Penang, Malaysia because it has nothing related to the Dalat city of Vietnam ____________________________________________________________________
For what it is worth, I once had a student in my composition 1 class who wrote an essay about Dalat. He claimed that the natural setting, climate, and surviving French colonial architecture made Dalat the loveliest city in Vietnam. Yet when I suggested that he write his research paper about Dalat, he declined, citing a lack of scholarship about Dalat. Since his essay, I have browsed the web looking for material about Dalat, and have found very little -- and 90% of what I have found focuses on the mountian scenery, with very little regarding the architecture and the urban fabric of the town itself. It would be wonderful if a person with knowledge about Dalat would rewrite this article, and include pictures of the historic French colonial architecture which is said to contribute so much to the town's character.
[edit] Dalat academy
i'd like to be sure if the first promotion is 1950. i have info about the Hoàng Diệu promotion of 1952 being the first with Bao Dai inaugurating it with a baptism. i'll check my sources later. thanks for any info about this anyway. see Vietnamese National Army per details. Paris By Night 02:13, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
