My Lack Of Knowledge On Vietnam

The streets of Ho Chi Minh City are beautiful around the summer time, but my favorite city was Huế, the city of cheap eats. My siblings and I have never been to Vietnam before, so it was an experience for all of us. As we were sitting down in a restaurant, looking at the menu, an old lady came up to us to take our order. My mother used to order for my brothers, so she ordered for them. When the lady looked at me, waiting for me to give her my order, all I could do was point at the picture on the menu and give her a smile. The look on her face was clear displeased. “She was born in America. She doesn’t know Vietnamese,” my father quickly told her, apologizing for my lack of knowledge. I felt embarrassed, lowering my head whenever she came near us. It was not my fault that I did not know my native language, but it was not my fault entirely for being able to learn it all these

He feels Yanagi’s pain through the connection but he does not draw attention to it. To be in the heat of a powerplay game such as the one boiling over in Konoha right now is a moment of extreme delicacy and ruthlessness; attachments are withheld, persons numbed down. The rampant mentality is this: eliminate those who are likely to get in one’s way, even if they are friends, or valuable allies. Nobody who lived through the Warring States Era would be unfamiliar with this tenet: do what must be done. And if Tobirama was forced to choose among the Yamanaka twins, he would keep Yanagi alive, simply because she is now the more valuable of the two, even though Yanagi herself and most definitely, not Osamu, would admit it. For to dabble in politics is to know who has value, worth and utility, and who do not.

For this paper I will examine Vietnamese culture according to the five essential questions all cultures must answer (according to Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck). I will then take those answers and compare then to out culture here in America. I realize that some might argue that using North American culture as a starting point is an attempt to simplify this writing, but I believe that any initial examination of something new is most effectively done in comparison to what one already knows.

The ideas of food, culture and community are explore in chapters eight and nine, particularly through the ideas of family relationships and its strong links to traditional Vietnamese

In Tim O'Brien's book "The Things They Carried", the chapter "Church" take places at a camp in an abandoned place called "pagoda" where a gathering of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam who has chosen to remain with two monks that treated them well. Looking through the cultural lens in this chapter, the dread of death changes the individual's perspective of the afterlife and higher power.

The longest recorded and arguably one of the most controversial wars in American history is the Vietnam war. In 1959, the communist government of North Vietnam had devised a guerrilla campaign in democratic South Vietnam. The government of North Vietnam had the goal of uniting both countries under a communist reign. The United States quickly became an ally with South Vietnam because they feared the spread of communism. The aftermath of the war resulted in sixty thousand American deaths and two million Vietnamese deaths. Today many people question the necessity and rationality of the war. It is still debated today if the American force in Vietnam was a blunder or a noble cause.

The Vietnam war was originally fought between North and South Vietnam. They were in war because the north was communist, and the south was not. America joined the war to make sure communism did not spread across the world. In order to get America involved in the war the government needed to organize a draft, when a man's number was called in the draft the men were shipped off to Vietnam. Even after that Vietnam soldiers were treated unfairly when they returned home from the war.

In the novel, Paradise of the Blind, written by Duong Thu Huong originally in Vietnamese and translated into English by Phan Huy Duong and Nina Mcpherson, the author constructs characters Aunt Tam and Uncle Chinh as analogs of conflicting political ideologies of 20th century Vietnam in order to display her opinions on its effectiveness in attaining proclaimed paradise. The characters are constructed to differently express the author’s voice towards extremist ideologies, Uncle Chinh

The Vietnam War: Just the Facts The war in Vietnam was an extremely controversial war, involving a wide range of ideas and opinions surrounding its importance and validity. The purpose of this war was to contain Communism in Asia and prevent in from spreading to Western culture. Many Americans were in agreement with this idea and believed that bringing the evils of Communism down was imperative. However, a larger group, the anti-war movement, were completely opposed to American intervention in Vietnam and thought it was wrong to send troops there.

The Vietnam War was one of the bloodiest wars in the history of Vietnam. Vietnam use to be a peaceful country until the idea of communism started spreading across Vietnam. Many wanted to stay democratic but saw what happened to the Germans and started to lean towards communism. Many also wanted to stay democratic and still had it hopes high that it will soon get their lives and economy back on track.

As former president Richard M. Nixon once said, “No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” The thought of the Vietnam War being entirely brutal comes from the misreported information given by people who were not in the first tier of the war. The soldiers were the first tier, they fought firsthand and saw everything that happened, from someone being killed, to traveling nightly to their next camping grounds. The second level, includes the reporters from America. These are the people who were close to where the action happened but not nearly close enough to experience the good things that came from the war. They saw the war through a window, seeing only the

Adopted from Confucianism, this cultural value plays a significant role in the life of a Vietnamese (Shapiro, http://www.ntac.hawaii.edu). Family is the core value, as seen in the novel. Because the characters view family as important, they thrive to achieve status and respect on the behalf of the entire family. The text in the novel repeatedly emphasizes upon family and honor, often referencing “honoring parents” and “ancestors.” Family becomes so significant that the connection “is linked, inextricably, by the ties of blood” (Huong 61).

Option 1: The main reason behind the United State’s involvement in the Vietnam War was because they wanted to contain communism and was also an effect of the Tonkin Gulf Incident, which occurred on August 2nd, 1964. This incident involved an American ship by the name of USS Maddox which was patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin when suddenly, “The Maddox was supposedly chased by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats. A sea battle ensued…” (From Lecture) Initially, during Truman’s presidency, we sent money to France to help battle communism in Vietnam, which ultimately failed. Consequently, France pulled out of the war right as the next president who was Eisenhower sent troops over to help fight in Vietnam. The situation fatefully escalated during

In Paradise of the Blind, author Duong Thu Houng accentuates the significance of children in the novel, exploring their symbolism, while introducing the ideals of childhood among Vietnamese society. As family are an important aspect of Vietnam culture, children specifically show this constant closeness which is demonstrated from childhood and continually important throughout Vietnamese life. The protagonist Hang reflects on her childhood, allowing for the reader to gain a sense of her culture, specifically, the rituals which have predefined and changed the lives of the children in the novel. However, Hang is able to oppose these views, and not return home to her ancestral house, but to go live her own life. It is the development of Hang that

What I learned about the Vietnam War was that it wasn’t thousands of soldiers charging at the Vietnamese. It was groups, or companies, of people waiting around for a call to come in. They raided villages looking for VC and terrorized the villagers by burning huts down and harassing them. I also didn’t know they were shot at by snipers at random times and then went into full battles. Another thing I learned was that it was the Marine Corps in the war, not the army. They dug foxholes and stayed in there waiting for VC soldiers. What I learned about war in general was how intense it was. Not only with being shot at, but by the weather conditions and pests. Many of the soldiers were damaged by the intense heat, insects, and dangerous diseases.