America is one of the most powerful and determined countries in the world. Throughout several wars and acts of destiny to expand or better America, Americans have created a specific way of thinking and understanding that they are superior. This way of thinking of superiority or sense of privilege is analyzed by Bartiz in a passage in “Backfire: A History of How American Cultured Us Unto Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did” which discusses the way of thinking and determination for the Vietnam War. This thinking is similar to Twain’s novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court on the American way of life, passages on Manifest Destiny discussing the right to more land, passages on Native Americans and their removal and civilization,
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Throughout the book the main character is described as the way Bartiz discusses American thinking, as a title of ownership or dominance. Displaying how Americans believed that their way of living is truly the only correct way, which is accurately described during the Vietnam War and in Twain’s novel. For example, Bartiz discusses how American soldiers believed that the Vietnamese were barbaric and simply unintelligent, however which was measured by the American views of civilization and intelligence (p. 32). In Twain’s novel Hank Morgan thought of the people in Lancelot as extremely unintelligent and barbaric in a way, due to their way of living and specific way of thinking which was so different from the way of modern day America. This is exactly what Bartiz was implying in the passage declaring that the Vietnamese act the way they due because of their ignorance and poverty, implying that anyone who is not American or who acts like a white American male is simply wrong due to their disadvantages of their way …show more content…
For example, Jackson explains in his speech about Native American removal, he basically is declaring that Native Americans actually want to be civilized and moved away from the whites away from their land and they should be highly grateful for this opportunity to grow as a culture to become American (p. 1). Bartiz touches on this same view that Jackson had toward the Native Americans only toward the Vietnamese in which it is America’s duty to provide “freedom” to the entire world, mainly the less fortunate and in which killing to achieve this destiny is highly likely and un-concerning due to their savage ways and less fortunate lifestyle. Mainly stating that anyone who is not the idealistic American is not worthy of life, because their life is not fulfilling anyways. This is also stated in the film “In The White Man’s Image” about the Native American reformation schools, in which Native children were taken and forced to eliminate their culture and heritage to accentually become American. However, this theory was highly flawed due to the fact that the judgment toward these children was still proven to view them as savages just as Bartz exclaims in the passage about Vietnamese. No matter how “civilized” or “American” these people became they were never seen as the decent human
Throughout the book the main character is described as the way Bartiz discusses American thinking, as a title of ownership or dominance. Displaying how Americans believed that their way of living is truly the only correct way, which is accurately described during the Vietnam War and in Twain’s novel. For example, Bartiz discusses how American soldiers believed that the Vietnamese were barbaric and simply unintelligent, however which was measured by the American views of civilization and intelligence (p. 32). In Twain’s novel Hank Morgan thought of the people in Lancelot as extremely unintelligent and barbaric in a way, due to their way of living and specific way of thinking which was so different from the way of modern day America. This is exactly what Bartiz was implying in the passage declaring that the Vietnamese act the way they due because of their ignorance and poverty, implying that anyone who is not American or who acts like a white American male is simply wrong due to their disadvantages of their way …show more content…
For example, Jackson explains in his speech about Native American removal, he basically is declaring that Native Americans actually want to be civilized and moved away from the whites away from their land and they should be highly grateful for this opportunity to grow as a culture to become American (p. 1). Bartiz touches on this same view that Jackson had toward the Native Americans only toward the Vietnamese in which it is America’s duty to provide “freedom” to the entire world, mainly the less fortunate and in which killing to achieve this destiny is highly likely and un-concerning due to their savage ways and less fortunate lifestyle. Mainly stating that anyone who is not the idealistic American is not worthy of life, because their life is not fulfilling anyways. This is also stated in the film “In The White Man’s Image” about the Native American reformation schools, in which Native children were taken and forced to eliminate their culture and heritage to accentually become American. However, this theory was highly flawed due to the fact that the judgment toward these children was still proven to view them as savages just as Bartz exclaims in the passage about Vietnamese. No matter how “civilized” or “American” these people became they were never seen as the decent human