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Gabriel Martin · truth is truthUpdated 4y

Why do most Vietnamese have an unfavourable view of China, even though France ransacked and colonized Vietnam while the US fought a recent war that lasted 20 years?

I will give my opinion:

• I was born after the war. So as a child, I didn’t hate any country. Because I have no feeling of war even though I know how bad it is.
• I watched a lot of animated movies on TV (mostly foreign films, because at that time, Vietnam did not produce many films). I figured out the unique characteristics of each country and now I call those things “culture”.
• After classes at school, I became more and more aware of the unique cultural characteristics of Vietnam. When I compare the similarities and differences of cultures, I am even more proud of my culture. Probably because all cultures are equally unique and wonderful.
• I wish I could do something in the future to plant a Vietnamese flag on the international market. I want to share more about my people’s culture to the world.
• When I went to Quora, I met people like Huijian Wu, Goodi Shang, Cheong Tee,… They propagate stupid things like “Vietnam is an inferior nation”, “Vietnamese people are actually Han Chinese, Vietnamese leaders changed their writing so that the Vietnamese could no longer see their Han ancestors,”… They make up stories about Vietnamese history!!!

That is the cause.

The US or French government also sometimes opposes the Vietnamese government. But the Americans, the French and the Japanese for the most part don’t care much, they behave more politely. And some Chinese people keep showing their level of ignorance which makes me very uncomfortable.

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Lucia Millar · 

Lives in AsiacUpdated 4y

Question: Why does Vietnam not want to become a neutral country like Switzerland? Why has Vietnam switched itself from pro-Russia, pro-China, anti-America to pro-America, anti-China? Why can’t Vietnam be consistent?

Answer: I think that your questions are interesting.

First of all, Why does Vietnam not want to become a neutral country like Switzerland?

I think that Vietnam has always wanted to become the Switzerland of Asia. However, the reality is different quite far from Vietnam’s wish.

Switzerland lies between these greatest Empires between France, Italy, Germany, and Austria (Former part of Austria-Hungary Empire) which this country could use one of them to re-balance with the others if it faces aggression from one. Together with its hard terrain, its strong fighting against invaders, having poor natural resources, most of the great powers in Europe agree about the neutral status for Switzerland. It means that its neutral status requires many factors but one of the most important things is that others agree with it. If not, Switzerland could have not become neutral.

So, we could sum up some factors to help Switzerland keeping its neutrality as follows;

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