Conventionally, Vietnam is a nation-state, and country with a rather long and complicated history, filled with varying cultural traditions and a great deal of differences between regions, and smaller states. Culturally, in a magnitude of manners, the Vietnamese people have more in common with Confucian China than Buddhist Southeast Asia. Most cultures throughout the Southeast Asian regions, appear to regard the Vietnamese people as fighters, and are not particularly fond of them despite their Confucian nature. From the evidence presented within Vietnam a Television History, one of the dominant themes of the first three quarters of Vietnamese history was the overpowering, and grim resistance the population displayed against the invasion of imperialist
