Vietnamese are divided psychologically by a history of war. After the Vietnam War, the country crippled under the leadership of the Communist party, the dominant and only political party in the country. The Communist party spreaded its control over every aspect of the country’s citizens and, at the same time, created a pseudo democratic system. The main cause of such corruption is the connection between the Communist Parties of Vietnam and China. While there exists a psychological border between China and Vietnam that has been around for over 2000 years, the Vietnamese government both openly and closely cooperate with China. The North Vietnamese receives aid from Chinese Communist during the Vietnam War. After the war end, Vietnamese government
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Vietnamese has always urge for independence, and Western leaders has never occurred to accommodate it. While the Communist Party is not the only group advocate for independent, “back as 1920, the only ally Vietnamese nationalism had ever known was the Communist International.” (Truong, 190) Due to such fact, revolutionary Ho Chi Minh was able to blend nationalism with communism, making it seems like the Communist Party is the only force that lead Vietnam to independence. The fact is, however, there were Southern, Western-influenced Vietnamese who also advocated for independence in parties such as the PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. It was the year 1970 after the death of Ho Chi Minh that the Communist Party started viewing members of PRG as “uninvited guest.” (Truong) They pointed out the fact that members of PRG used to serve under the French. While every nationalists were bounded by the sense of nationalism, the difference in “class background” divided them, and such division is agitated by Communism. Eventually, Communists eliminated other parties and gathered the national movement under their name. After the Vietnam War, the Communist Party spreaded its ideology and controlled Vietnamese people through education and distorted information. These information bounded Vietnamese to the Communist Party using the chosen trauma of
Vietnamese has always urge for independence, and Western leaders has never occurred to accommodate it. While the Communist Party is not the only group advocate for independent, “back as 1920, the only ally Vietnamese nationalism had ever known was the Communist International.” (Truong, 190) Due to such fact, revolutionary Ho Chi Minh was able to blend nationalism with communism, making it seems like the Communist Party is the only force that lead Vietnam to independence. The fact is, however, there were Southern, Western-influenced Vietnamese who also advocated for independence in parties such as the PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. It was the year 1970 after the death of Ho Chi Minh that the Communist Party started viewing members of PRG as “uninvited guest.” (Truong) They pointed out the fact that members of PRG used to serve under the French. While every nationalists were bounded by the sense of nationalism, the difference in “class background” divided them, and such division is agitated by Communism. Eventually, Communists eliminated other parties and gathered the national movement under their name. After the Vietnam War, the Communist Party spreaded its ideology and controlled Vietnamese people through education and distorted information. These information bounded Vietnamese to the Communist Party using the chosen trauma of