1. American Perceptions of the Vietnamese
... how these beliefs were reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism, and Cold War were meaningless," (Mecklin 4). Furthermore, Americans faced great difficulty in being able to communicate with the Vietnamese peasants, and believed that "[their] concept of [nationhood] was largely gone in the rural areas, much less of ... patriotism," (Mecklin 3). Nonetheless, Mecklin also observed "the Vietnamese peasant was intensely aware of basic human relationships," and "thus...
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