Can the Vietnam spirit be transferred to other people?

I admired Vietnams incessant spirit in which it finally reunited it’s country, how they never, ever, gave up hope and used any means necessary to defeat the enemy.
I think though that this is generally a trait not shared with people of the Western world, but hey, I could be wrong, does this spirit of never giving up exist in us anymore? Or have we lost it?or is it lying dormant, waiting for a moment to reappear.

Seeing as how humans have been thriving for 2 million years or so, I’d say we definitely have the spirit of survival. We may have come close to throwing in the towel, but as a species, we’ve never given up.

Germany managed to reunify after50+ years

Not to mention the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Ryan, what the hell are you talking about?

Do you actually believe Vietnamese people are possessed of some “never give up” “Spirit” other human beings do not possess? Or are you joking around?

[John Huston]Is there hobbit in me? . . . Is there?[/John Huston]

must…supress…urge…to…answer…with…dirty…joke

Not to take everything away from the Vietnamesem fighters, but wasn’t it fortunate for Hanoi that their struggle coincided with a great wave of youth activism, mass protest, decolonization, and criticism of the military establishment within the entire western world - and including the United States?

Also many Vietnamese, certainly a large minority, did not share in this “spirit” as evidenced by the huge post-1975 Vietnamese diaspora. Vietnam the land may be reuinted, but with perhaps 3 or 4 million Vietnamese living elsewhere in the world, its hard to say the reunification was completed.

Hussein.

I pushed submit when I intended to preview…, I was going to say that when the inevitable war begins with Iraq, there will be a lot of protest, but probably not with the intensity that it ocurred from 1967 to 1972. Partly because Saddam Hussein is nowhere near as appealing to anyone as Ho Chi Minh, who I believe was respected to a great degree even by ardent anti-communists. Ho Chih Minh was able to appeal to people beyond those who shared his particular ideology.

I wasn’t signing my post “Hussein” :slight_smile:

Well, there were a significant number of Vietnamese actively resisting those attempts to reunify the country. I don’t mean to demean the Vietnamese in anyway, but I don’t see anything about them that makes them different from other people in the world. The North Koreans have been pretty deteremined to reunify their country over the last 50 years, and I don’t think the outcome is at all admirable.

The Kurds have been fighting for centuries for a nation, or autonomy, or at least recognition. Of course, part of the problem is how much time they spend fighting each other. The Chinese Communists seemed pretty deteremined. The Irish haven’t exactly been docile for the last five or six hundred years. The Scottish spend a fair amount of time fighting against bad odds to have their own country.

I don’t know what you’ve been reading, but this question is pretty silly.

It was supposed to be “Scottish spent” not “spend” since they kinda stopped.

Don’t forget the Tibetans and their struggle.

Reunited? That’s laughable. Vietnam was not reunited by some big spiritual movement spreading through the populace. The Republic of Vietnam was conquered and subjugated. Bit of a difference there.

Two things:

  1. Reunification is a lot easier at the point of a boyonett or barrel of an AK-47

  2. http://www2.coca-cola.com/ourcompany/cfs/cfs_vietnam.html

I guess maybe we won that war after all.