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Vietnam appears to be philosophically mixed with Confuscianism as a base. Taoism, Buddhism, Catholic, French colonial and Marxism on top. But I’d suspect Cambod
by hindsightbias 6y ago
Vietnam appears to be philosophically mixed with Confuscianism as a base. Taoism, Buddhism, Catholic, French colonial and Marxism on top. But I’d suspect Cambodia, who we probably dropped even more bombs on, would be more strictly Buddhist.
Eastern Philosophy on suffering and war would be an interesting topic.
- stanrivers 6y agoDo you have any suggested material on your first two sentences? Think beginner that has mainly focused on western ideas wanting to get a foundation in eastern philosophy and then go from there.
- hindsightbias 6y agoSorry, no. But it would be a good question for one of the reddit philosophy forums. There probably are comparative religion classes/books that discuss Eastern religion/philosophy from a western perspective. I would expect Vietnamese socially tied to different eras like Catholic, French colony and Marxist to have very different views. What they share in common must be pretty fascinating.
- stanrivers 6y agoInteresting to think that Vietnam might have a mix of all those cultures. I guess the same can be said about Macao or Hong Kong - you had traditional east asian cultures mixed very recently with western culture. I wonder if there are any examples of the reverse?
- latchkey 6y agoLaos took the brunt of the bombing (it is next to northern Vietnam). https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietna...