num_pages: 448
description: To better understand ourselves, we must understand the Vietnam War. We must learn more about Vietnamese culture and Vietnamese paradigms in order to untangle the muddled debates about our own. Realizing that we must do this is the first and most important lesson of Vietnam. And it is one we Americans have been exasperatingly slow to learn. We remain far too ready to assume that other people are, or want to be, or should be, like us.
language: English
title: Understanding Vietnam
titlecomplete: Understanding Vietnam (Philip E. Lilienthal Book.)
genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Asia, History
ratings_count: 137
publisher: University of California Press