Discount_Blade
Sent Here To Piss You All Off
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2019
- Messages
- 1,347
- Points
- 153
There is a small but still sizeable portion of Vietnamese where I'm at. Now, you would think Vietnamese would have some kind of issues with Americans considering the Vietnam War wasan't too long ago. Many of them are old enough to remember it. It only ended in '75. But the funny thing is...most Vietnamese still LOVE Americans. And this isn't some narrow view. I personally know numerous men and women who had relatives who MOVED TO VIETNAM, for various reasons. Their is a massive military veteran expat community in Vietnam for Americans. And they are extremely beloved. It confuses me. I've heard from Vietnamese, little kids on up to 80 year old men and women who all remember Americans fondly. They talk about how they wish more would come to Vietnam. Quite a few had daughters who married American men back in Vietnam, the men staying in Vietnam.
IT's weird. But then you mention the French and oh hell....
They hate them. They villify them. The Indochina Wars are like a blight upon the memory of life and existence itself. But essentially...both the Vietnam and Indochina Wars were basically the Vietnamese versus a foreign force. A Western force. And yet...Vietnamese in general....love Americans. But hate French. And I can say this with much confidence due to my own meetings with many Vietnamese immigrants from 3 different generations. They ALL like Americans. And a least 1 of every 3 I met have a daughter even a few have a son who is married to an American. This is an even higher ratio than Americans and South Koreans ....which I used to think had the largest American-Asian foreign couples population. Plenty of Koreans immigrants here too but the love is just so much more noticeable with Vietnamese.
With South Koreans...its more the older generation loving Americans while the younger not so much. But Vietnamese? All ages. All generatios.
So essentially, why do Vietnamese treat Americans differently from the French when both were a foreign enemy of some sort?
I've seen Vietnamese people just straight up turn devilish on some French Canadians on more than one occasion when they heard them speaking French.
IT's weird. But then you mention the French and oh hell....
They hate them. They villify them. The Indochina Wars are like a blight upon the memory of life and existence itself. But essentially...both the Vietnam and Indochina Wars were basically the Vietnamese versus a foreign force. A Western force. And yet...Vietnamese in general....love Americans. But hate French. And I can say this with much confidence due to my own meetings with many Vietnamese immigrants from 3 different generations. They ALL like Americans. And a least 1 of every 3 I met have a daughter even a few have a son who is married to an American. This is an even higher ratio than Americans and South Koreans ....which I used to think had the largest American-Asian foreign couples population. Plenty of Koreans immigrants here too but the love is just so much more noticeable with Vietnamese.
With South Koreans...its more the older generation loving Americans while the younger not so much. But Vietnamese? All ages. All generatios.
So essentially, why do Vietnamese treat Americans differently from the French when both were a foreign enemy of some sort?
I've seen Vietnamese people just straight up turn devilish on some French Canadians on more than one occasion when they heard them speaking French.