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How do Vietnamese people have such favorable views of the USA after what they did to them? (lemmygrad.ml)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6484299

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/06/23/1-americas-global-image/

America’s image is mostly positive among the Asian nations polled. Particularly large majorities see the U.S. favorably in the Philippines (92%), South Korea (84%) and Vietnam (77%).

It's from 2015 but more recent polls have found similar data IIRC

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/comparing-global-views-of-the-united-states-and-china-during-the-trump-and-biden-administrations/

79% of people polled in Vietnam chose the US in the "Preferred alignment choice in U.S.-China rivalry" which is a different metric obviously but still points towards the same idea

Edit: According to Luna Oi, Pew Research Center is a neoliberal think tank that cannot be trusted on anything about Vietnam

https://youtu.be/hPCoDz_CPCc

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've always wondered this about the Philippines, too. They love the US, they love MacArthur and his "I will return" line, even though it was a US colony forever and I'm pretty sure was brutally suppressed with hundreds of thousands killed before.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most countries don't prioritize keeping the memory of such barbarity alive; America is such a strange beast that most people probably think it's safe to just forget what kind of country we are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

forget what kind of country we are.

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