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Chinese Language Vietnamese People
931 wordsA man walks into Footaction to browse the wide selection of shoes and apparel that the store has to offer. As he comes across a pair of shoes that have some Chinese writing on it, he automatically turns around and asks Chris, an Asian sales associate at Footaction, what it says. Chris, who is not of Chinese decent, tells him that he does not know. The customer says, Well, arent you Chinese? Chris replies, No Im not, I am Vietnamese. Vietnamese, Chinese, they are all the same, the man remarks. Ch...
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Ho Chi Minh Henry Cabot Lodge
3,221 wordsVietnam War was fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. The war was between North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) versus the United States and the South Vietnamese army. It eventually divided into two parts, North and South Vietnam. The United States was incorporated with the south. The United States became involved in the Vietnam war because it believed that if all the country fell under the Communist government, Communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. This ...
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Ho Chi Minh United States Military
1,514 wordsIn 1949, Mao Zedong led the Peoples Revolution, which established a Communist State in China. Communism has now been introduced to Asia. In this period, after World War II, Communism was a popular ideology being introduced throughout the world. Vietnam was one of the many countries under the threat of Communism. At this time, Vietnam was a French Colony. As time went on tension started to come between the French and the Vietnamese people. As tension increased so did the fighting between the Fren...
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World War Ii Viet Minh
1,680 wordsThe Vietnam conflict began in the late 19 th Century. France forcefully took ownership of the islands and made the Vietnamese islands a protectorate of France. The Viet Minh, or the League Of Independence was formed sometime around 1940. They were a group of people seeking independence from France. The French Government opposed this action and decided to try and stop the Viet Minh from advancing their political ideals into the rest of Vietnam. In the city of Dien Bien Phu, the Viet Minh surround...
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Percent Of Americans Viet Cong
1,641 words... nd ammunition depots. These tunnels proved to be an excellent strategy for fighting in the Vietnamese jungles, as they were perfect for transporting men and supplies unnoticed through the jungle. Another strategy that the Vietnamese used to combat Americas military superiority was the laying of booby traps. Booby traps are defined as Concealed devices used to inflict casualties. Booby traps were an integral component of the war waged by the Vietnamese forces. Between January 1965, and June 1...
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Ho Chi Minh World War Ii
1,563 wordsVietnam War was a war that had the many of the world stumped on how it accrued and what it was for. Many lives were lost and destroyed for a war that had no real purpose. As to why the US got involved is still a controversial issue to this day. Pin pointing exactly when the war started is a heated debate among historians. The war was not only in Vietnam but also right at home. Society was divided and conflict began. Was Vietnam a lost cause for the US? In 1941, Ho Chi Minh, a communist activist,...
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American Involvement In The Vietnam War
1,996 wordsThe Vietnam War is without a doubt one of the most memorable wars yet to date. Because of the time period the war took place there are many survivors that are still living. The basic reason I chose to do my individual project on the war was basically because it took place while I was a child. However, another reason I chose this topic was because I actually know a person who was in the war. The Vietnam War was basically a military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. The war involved th...
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Made Me Feel Chinese New Year
983 words"Culture Clash" I am a born Vietnamese, and Chinese American. For more than a decade I have made many friends coming from diverse cultures. I recall one friend back in high school that demonstrated the importance of one's own private culture, and language. From this experience with my friend, Hong, I realized that families who had a strong cultural, and language practice at home had a very stable and functional family. Individuals who embrace their culture, and language broadly tend to pass on t...
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Small Businesses San Jose
1,643 wordsMinority businesses The aim of this work is to discuss the role of the minority business in the US on the example of the Vietnamese American community. The main argument is whether the Vietnamese American business contributes much into the overall economic welfare of the US, and why do Vietnamese Americans mostly concentrate on their self-employment. Introduction The issue of minority business is relevant in the light of the growing immigrations volumes into the US. What we witness at present, i...
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Social Security System Ethnic Minorities
1,658 words... discussed in this work are usually called structural opportunities. In relation to this theory there are several different models of behavior, which Vietnamese Americans exercise for the creation of their small businesses, and which actually make them start such business. One of the models is the Middleman minority model. This model states that the business of White Americans use the Vietnamese Americans and their small business as the intermediary between their whi 8 te business and the eth...
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John F Kennedy And Vietnam
2,322 wordsJohn F. Kennedy and Vietnam Introduction Historically, John F. Kennedys policy in relation to Vietnam was trade on forbidden ground. Military and political aspects of the U. S. intervention, along with the Vietnamese struggle against aggression were kept on the front-burner. However, less attention was given to formation, development, and implementation of the policy not only under the circumstances of global confrontation, but in the system of regional international relations. John F. Kennedy o...
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John F Kennedy North And South
1,471 wordsemail: all the catholic church in the vietnam war The Catholic church played an instrumental role in supporting the government of South Vietnam during the Vietnamese War by feeding, clothing, and providing spiritual support the Vietnamese people. Historically the people of Vietnam were of a Buddhist background, until the Roman Catholic French missionaries introduced Catholicism inthe 1600 s into the early 1800 s. France decided to take complete control of the country 1867, in part because of rel...
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U S Involvement World War Ii
2,021 wordsThe War in Vietnam Essay submitted by Unknown The Vietnam War, the nations longest, cost fifty-eight thousand American lives. Only the Civil War and the two world wars were deadlier for Americans. During the decade of direct U. S. military participation in Vietnam beginning in 1964, the U. S Treasury spent over $ 140 billion on the war, enough money to fund urban renewal projects in every major American city. Despite these enormous costs and their accompanying public and private trauma for the A...
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