... to Washington," (Bradley 94). Through these sources, the Americans could reaffirm what they had already wanted to believe about the Vietnamese people – that they were an "inferior and imitative little China [with] backwards political development...[lacking] traditions of indigenous governance," with French rule being an insult to that injury (83, 84). As a result of this, the Americans never fully appreciated the ... ...

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