Summary Of The Vietnam Wars

After reading the first four sections of the article “The Vietnam Wars,” I can infer that the people of Vietnam are fierce if they feel controlled. My evidence from the text to support that is, “Long before the Americans, before the Japanese, before the French even, there were the Chinese (Olson 1). ” That supports my inference because they have won their independence back from every country who tried to take it away. Another reason I can infer the Vietnamese are fierce when controlled is when the author wrote, “As one French military commander wrote with foreboding before returning home: ‘Everything here tends to ruin (Olson 2).’” This quote implies that the Vietnamese culture remained strong despite the French efforts to influence it.