about vietnam war..?

Question

how did the vietnamese people feel about americans in their country...south and north vietname ...during the war??

Answer 1

It is hard to say. Probably most people in the south didn't want the Americans there - just like the Iraqi's today would be happier (and probably better off) if there were no Americans there to kill them. The war would have ended with the French defeat, had not the Americans stepped in. Lots of Vietnamese made a big mistake and cast their lot with the US, look at the refugees that went to the US (and elsewhere).

The people in the north, which did not have Americans on the ground, except the POWs in the prisons, probably were pretty anti-American but they had good reason to be - their sons and daughters were going south to fight and die. And the US was bombing the north. And life wasn't so good.

Interestingly, what is the view of the Vietnamese now, in both the north and the south? That is the one that intrigues me. And what I have seen has really surprised me!

I now live in Ha Noi.

Answer 2

The North Vietnamese that weren't communists might have been OK with it, but we were on the side of the South Vietnam trying to defeat the communists in the North. Some people liked it and some didn't. One of the biggest problems of our people there was trying to figure out which side the people were on since they all looked the same and dressed the same. A lot of Vietnamese people have immigrated here since the war, so I would imagine that those people would say it was a good thing.