>Go to Vietnam
>Signs are all in English
>Starbucks, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Carl's Jr are everywhere
>even though people are commies they're still nice and humble in that SEA Asian way (especially compared to chinks)
>cafes and convenience stores play Western music
Wait...
Hol' up.
Why did the Viet Cong put up a fight against the US? What was the point of the war? It's as if they've already been colonized by America already.
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Nice try, American proxy user.
We all know that the United States lost the Viet Nam War.
so you're telling me
>walk into cafe/convenience stores
>it ain't me starts playing
How to get an apartment there? What about visas?
>It Ain't Me starts playing.
What he said is true tho, except
>Signs are all in English
>Why did the Viet Cong put up a fight against the US?
Hoe G Min realized proletariat memes were danker than capitalist memes
A Che t-shirt is edgy and rebellious
An Adam Smith t-shirt would just be boring
I don't think most people even know of the Beatles, kek.
like it
Anti-imperialism. Viet Cong afraid that they will become Indochina 2.0 with US instead of France as their master. You know, white guy whipping you like a slave and force you to make/plant stuff for them.
>read Wikipedia
>boils down to socialist Vietnam having money troubles and unable to industrialize without Soviet Union support, forcing them to go Democratic, Capitalist
Hah.
Freedom wins even if you do nothing.
>Any point in Vietnam's history
>Democracy
Burgers play the long game.
In a few generations, your parent's grandchildren won't even remember who Lenin is.
>I don't think most people even know of the Beatles, kek.
Beatles don't sing that song, The Fortunate Sons does
Average Vietnamese don't know who Marx or Lenin are anyway, they just know the names.
But the US is their master.
They lost the war.
I know, i just wrote that normal Vietnamese don't know of the Beatles, then how can they know of CCR.
>The Fortunate Sons
ebin
I think he means that if one does not know who The Beatles is, they shouldn't know about more obscure bands like The Fortunate Sons.
But you are not working them like slaves or install a white guy as their leader. All you do is open a McDonald in the middle of capital and call it a day. And even the McDonald is run by the local.
>Beatles don't sing that song, The Fortunate Sons does
Creedence Clearwater Revival sings Fortunate Son.
>that feel when no Viet bro that you can carry around in your pocket
That's Dutch-style imperialism, and it's out of date. Do you remember the country of Rhodesia? Neither do I.
Do you remember the country of Zimbabwe? Not for long.
American-style imperialism merely enforces a complicated web of trade ties that force amicable relations between our countries. You wouldn't necessarily want us to pull out our McDonalds and military bases (if any), and we want to use your country as a watchdog against China.
He's memeing
>But you are not working them like slaves
They do that FOR us.
Not for much longer, though. Trump will put a stop to it. Hopefully they'll embrace capitalism and not end up like China.
I really liked Vietnam when I went there. Particularly seeing as I went to China before it and I then naturally assumed that they were all soulless emotionless rodents
But china is hyper capitalist except for maybe land ownership where you buy a house but only own the building while the state owns the land.
I agree with you. But you have to understand their viewpoint. For them, when white guy picking fight with them, it mean old-style imperialism. And some countries still believe this even now.
Vietnam was richer than Korea and Taiwan before communist came
Picture related. The face of American imperialism. This is also probably what it looks like in Vietnam, too. You might have to include more American companies to get the same density, mostly manufacturing.
Unfortunately I couldn't find a non-shit global map of every McDonald's in the world.
I'd put up a fight too if it wasn't my cunts fault. There's a good reason Vietnam war was the last war where US citizens were drafted.
>Vietnam was richer than Korea and Taiwan before communist came
Wow. It's fucking nothing then. Even Malaysia and Philippines was the richest region in the whole Asia save India subcontinent during that time.
>Starbucks, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Carl's Jr are everywhere
>cafes and convenience stores play Western music
sounds like every country ever outside of africa and your shit country
I aint no silver spoon
Oh and Japan.
>Fight decades-long guerilla war
>Endure shitty conditions day in and day out
>Your mates get slaughtered when the Americans do find your positions (seriously, count the dead)
>All in the name of a political ideology you half-hardheartedly believe after so many years
>Just want to lounge in Levi jeans and eat a hot Big Mac
Am I correct or is it far more complex?
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Basically the Americans feared Communism, with Chinese support, spreading through all of South East Asia and potentially in the Sub Continent if Vietnam became Communist. A Soviet/Chinese aligned Asia would be a near disaster for the US and capitalism in general. This was known as the Domino theory.
I guess you could say that while the US (and Australia) did lose in Vietnam, in that they left largely due to domestic political reasons and Saigon eventually fell to Communism, they were able to avert a Communist dominated Asia. Furthermore, the Vietnamese have always hated the Chinese. I'm talking for over a millennia. The Chinese supported the North Vietnamese purely due to the ideological battle, but as soon as the war was over they two went back to hating each other. The Chinese and Vietnamese fought not even 5 years after the Vietnam war ended, despite being both Communist.
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Today, the Vietnamese, particularly the younger generation, are becoming more and more Westernised. The first Maccas opened up in Hanoi only in 2015 I think and business there as been booming, so I think more are planned. Many of them speak basic English, and if you go to Vietnam today, they really like Americans and Australians (this really surprises many Americans in particular). When you ask many of them about their feelings of the Vietnam War, a common reaction is for them to just shrug it off and say that it just a small part of a long list of wars the Vietnamese has fought. It's a bizarre thought that the Vietnam War almost had (and still has) a greater cultural and political impact on America and Australia than it did in Vietnam. I encourage you to go there sometime, they are very nice people.
And on a political level too, the Vietnamese and the US are becoming ever closer due to mutual alarm and uneasiness over Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea.
All in all a fascinating country, sorry about the wall of text.
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Vietnam is basically Europe
Most popular fast food brands on the European continent.
Though for Finland it would be a different logo, if the gazillion ähläm kebab/pizza joints would syndicate into one brand.
Pretty sure the band is called "some folks are born".
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