Growing up Korean in white America was different. ... Whether being ridiculed by whites or other Asians, there were constant cultural conflicts. ... r been to the homeland, I still get these dirty looks from other Koreans here in America, because I am totally not Asian washed. Back Even in high school the typical Asians that always hung out with just only other Asians sometimes called me a "sellout" because I never hung out with them. ... The Asians did not understand why I hung out with them, but that these athletes were different then the Asians were. ...

• Word Count: 1978
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• Grade Level: High School

What he brought was a spirit of rebellion--against first the French and later the Americans. ... He never committed U.S. troops to South East Asia, but he did authorize material aid in 1950 and raised the level of assistance until his term came to an end in 1953. ... President Truman had transferred his Cold War images from Europe and Southeast Asia and based his policies on naive analogies rather than specific Asian realities. Asia was not Europe though and what may have worked for Truman in Europe would turn out to be a disaster in Asia. ... The B-52 bombers seemed to be one last effort ...

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The North with a communist government led by president Ho Chi Minh (胡志明) and the South ruled by American-backed President Ngo Dinh Diem (吳廷琰). ... Asian Financial Crisis The Asian financial crisis did not have to seem direct impact on the Vietnamese economy, During 1998, however, the effects of the regional crisis on the Vietnamese economy became increasingly evident: at the end of the year all major macroeconomic indicators suggested that the situation was becoming critical. ... As East Asian countries accounted for around 70 per cent of FDI and ove...

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The initial reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam seemed logical and compelling to American leaders. ... American attention focused primarily on Europe and on Asia beyond Vietnam. ... After China became a communist state in 1949, the stability of Japan became of paramount importance to Washington, and Japanese development required access to the markets and raw materials of Southeast Asia. The outbreak of war in Korea in 1950 served primarily to confirm Washington's belief that communist aggression posed a great danger to Asia . ... The American troops and POWs came home, but the war con...

• Word Count: 1860
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• Grade Level: High School

Once again America had just finished a great war in which France was an important ally. ... Kennedy quickly discovered that this was a new kind of war America was fighting. ... By the time of Kennedy's death America would have 16,000 "advisors" in the country. ... I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went". ... The television brought Vietnam into the homes of Americans and fueled protest against it. ...

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I think his seven primary concerns are as follows: 1) The termination of the Poverty Program; 2) Sending young brothers to fight for liberation in Southeast Asia, when they don't live free in Georgia and Harlem, and die alongside whites who live in a nation and cannot go to the same schools; 3) The massive violence used in Vietnam; 4) America would never be free or saved from itself unless the descendants had their own shackles removed; 5) The burden of maintain his role as a man who received the Nobel Prize for Peace and work for the "brotherhood of man"; 6) The Vietnam people who have b...

• Word Count: 1823
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• Grade Level: High School

The media became an enemy as great as the one the country was battling thousands of miles away in the Asian rice fields. ... It rallied American support behind the government and for the entrance of American troops into the war. ... The media and the public viewpoint shifted once between these two attacks on America. The Vietnam War had very little support on the home front from the American public. ... Reporters usually lacked experience and understanding of Asian politics. ...

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Because South Vietnam had its own enemy within country borders, neighboring North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) prevented South Vietnam from falling to the communist's, which ultimately led the United States to fight a major amount of battles in Southeast Asia (Raskin& Fall 117). ... (Raskin& Fall 191) American forces in Southeast Asia operated under some strict restraints such as no being allowed to invade enemy territory in North Vietnam and for many years being stuck in ground, search-and-destroy missions in the remote jungle regions (Cameron 80). ... From then on the Vietco...

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Popular culture and its natural process of development can be and is affected by virtually everything from other cultures (the recent Latin influence on American popular music), the weather (would Morrisey have happened in a country that didn't get as much rain?)... When it comes to popular music in a North American setting, there is some precedent that we can examine. ... As that war raged on, and the television cameras overseas broadcast images of death and destruction all over the jungles of Southeast Asia, the natural evolutionary processes of popular culture did their thing. ... The ...

• Word Count: 1582
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• Grade Level: High School

Vietnam is a small country on the coast of South East Asia. ... " Further, in his news report for New America Media, De Tran noted a fifty seven year old woman and her nineteen year old severely deformed son, as they live in a one bedroom shack, with a leaky roof and no running water within the city of Danang where some of the US military personnel were station. ... Thousands of American GIs still receive disability payment for condition related to dioxin. ... "The spray was white like a midst," said a former soldier in the article "Agent Orange Studies Overlook Vietnamese...

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And, although it only lasted for about one month, it was one of America's most notable battles that taught the Americans and the Vietnamese valuable lessons about life and war. ... The United States became involved in Vietnam because it believed that if all of the country fell under a communist government, communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. ... So the offensive did, in fact, not take Americans by surprise. ... The question that started to be asked by American troops and its citizens was: "Is this the offensive or not?" ... At the very least, they would shatt...

• Word Count: 2466
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• Grade Level: High School

In this period of renovation, Vietnam is emerging as an economic powerhouse in South East Asia. ... You should pay your bills with Dong instead of low denominations of American currency. ... Americans tend to start their presentations with a joke. ... One of the negative comments Vietnamese sometimes make about American companies is that when the Americans leave, they lose contact with them. ...

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With the same volition of his protest in the Civil Rights Movement, he attacked the United States government for use of imperialism and power to control Vietnam thus having claim in Southeast Asia. ... As shock to Buckley, many people applauded Zinn's opposition and he did not understand his criticism of the American government. ...

• Word Count: 1466
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• Grade Level: High School