‘First of all, let me tell you that when I was your age I was not as well organized and well-educated and sophisticated as all of you, ‘ Obama began.
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News reports said that White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry raised the issue with Vietnamese officials. Below were some of the items on display.
He pointed out that rap, which started as an expression of poor African-Americans, is now a global phenomenon, the art form of young people around the world.
President Barack Obama is talking with Vietnamese entrepreneurs about their business ideas and roadblocks to their eventual success.
“The American people are generous, and they’re decent, and they’re hardworking, and you know, sometimes our politics doesn’t express all the goodness of the people”, Obama acknowledged.
America’s presidential election has inspired political chaos and controversy at home, but President Barack Obama thinks eventually “things are going to be okay”.
President Obama joined his Vietnamese counterpart in a conference on Monday, during which he announced the USA will fully lift an embargo on sales of lethal arms to Vietnam.
Obama told her those concerns are not unique to Vietnam.
He cited the “enormous carbon footprint” of the United States and said it’s warming the planet, warning students that the world would be “under water” if developing nations followed the same path. Obama used his visit to end a long-held USA ban on sales of lethal weapons and to offer reassurances that a US -led Pacific trade pact that includes Vietnam would be passed by Congress this year. Then she went on to talk about stereotypes: how people make assumptions when they see women rappers (cute girls). “That’s part of what a modern 21st-century culture is all about”, Obama said.
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Obama did not name any of the upstream countries but said the United States would provide smaller member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with technical assistance and evaluations of what needs to be done. Obama said that sometimes “art is risky”, causing concerns among governments.
