Now, I would like to talk about the Cham people. I was really impressed by the folk dance of the Cham people. That’s why I read more about them and here is some information I would like to tell you. The Cham have a population of nearly 162 thousand people living in the provinces of Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Dong Nai and Tay Ninh. The Cham language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian group. Well, their production activities are rather diverse. Like most other groups in Viet Nam, they cultivate wet rice. Besides that, they also fish and make handicrafts. I was impressed by their hand-made pottery and I adored their silk. Every year, they hold the Katé festival to commemorate the dead and honour heroes in the Cham community. Various agricultural ceremonies are performed during the year for a new canal, for young rice and for so many other occasions. Personally, I find the Cham ethnic people very interesting. Experience their way of life if possible, it’s worth your time. 

Khmer people are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Cambodia, accounting for 97.6% of the country's 15.9 million people. They speak the Khmer language, which is part of the larger Austroasiatic language family found throughout eastern and central India and Bangladesh, in other parts of Southeast Asia (including Vietnam), South China and numerous islands in the Indian Ocean. The majority of the Khmer are followers of the Khmer style of Buddhism, a highly syncretic version that blends elements of Theravada Buddhism, Hinduism, animism and veneration of the dead. Significant populations of Khmers reside in adjacent areas of Thailand (Northern Khmer) and the Mekong Delta region of neighboring Vietnam (Khmer Krom), while there are over one million Khmers in the Cambodian diaspora living mainly in France, the United States and Australia.

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