Did you know… there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a farmer?
The best soldiers are often from farming backgrounds. Best athletes too.
It would’ve been embarrassing for the Vietnamese if they’d been defeated by a bunch of waiters lmao
It also minimises the fact that the Vietnamese, a colonised people, defended themselves against a rabid bloodthirsty genocidal empire that was armed to the teeth at great personal cost.
It’s the kind of thing that people who view war as games and banter tend to say. So children basically.
Edit: Also calling an entire east Asian nation one of rice farmers
Resisted Japan, France and then the US to top it all off. They fought fucking hard.
After all that the Khmer Rouge kept fucking with the border and shooting at them so they had to go in there, depose Pol Pot, and end a genocide. It’s mind blowing the lengths they had to go just to get everyone else to fuck off and leave them alone.
Nah I think Americans claiming they won Vietnam because of muh KDR is way more arrogant.
I hope to see the US brought down by a bunch of Uber drivers, baristas and Amazon delivery people someday
Also undermines the massive amount of organization, logistical planning and war strategy the vietnamese had to do. The quote is also a great display how “benign” expression with the intend to disparage american exceptionalism can actually further engrain it. After all the quote raises the unsaid notion that the vietnamese were primitive and incapable and that it should be have been expected that the “superior” american military/culture should have won.
This is the insidious nature of cultural imperalism- even our speech and thoughts are trained to help support the system.
