HUMA 4730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hawk And Dove, Scorched Earth, Protestantism
18 May 2016
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Vietnam war never a declared war (official) by the u. s. A vietnamese veteran said we fought the chinese 1000 years, the french for 100, you. Imperialism (ideology for frontiers) when another country goes into another (british. Gender: masculinity and concepts of femininity, war is a male domain kill to be a man, codes of masculinity. If you are able to assimilate, you"re fine if there is a conflict, there is always the idea that you are inherently better than the other. We are better, we need to fix you agree and submit or die notion of itself as inherently morally decent people like heroes who act on their own lonesome cowboy, ties back to individualism. Us and them debates lead to domination, control and race debates race is a convenient marker of us and them. A lot of the good vietnamese from the south were actually corrupt officials.
