The French turned Vietnam into their colony in 1887 and ruled oppressively over the Vietnamese, interfered in their social and religious affairs and drained their resources. These actions of France inspired HoChiMinh to turn against the French colonial authority and he succeeded in eliminating them from Vietnam in 1945.
When you convert each type of ribbon to a bigger fraction, you get 32/6 feet of silver ribbon by multiplying the denominator by the whole number then adding the numerator. you also get 16/6 feet of gold ribbon. 32-16=16 so Gina has 16 more feet of silver ribbon than gold