For in this post-Cold War era of free markets, quickly shifting values and porous borders, teenagers recite American songs they learn from karaoke machines.
Curfews are non-existent, and everyone, young and old, can stay out all night if they want to.
To show me his new world, Tuan drove us downtown and we immediately merged with a river of teenagers and 20-somethings on motorbikes and bicycles. Twenty-three years after the Vietnam War ended, the country has become the land of the restless young. Sixty percent of Vietnam's 75 million people are under 25 years old. And this new generation is growing up with no memory of the war. They are cynical because many have grown distrustful of the state.