My subjective experience was that Vietnamese were rather friendly to Americans, while they did not have a lot of love for Chinese. "Americans killed us and comm

My subjective experience was that Vietnamese were rather friendly to Americans, while they did not have a lot of love for Chinese. "Americans killed us and committed atrocities, but China wants to take our things, dominate us, or erase us" was kind of the sentiment I got. I was surprised that in many parts of Vietnam signs are in Vietnamese, English, and Korean, while Chinese is suspiciously missing. Now America is the main pressure pushing back on China in the south china sea. I'm starting to see "made in Vietnam" on all types of items in US stores. Half of Vietnamese that live abroad live in America... We have incredible amounts of media that are very anti Vietnam war and the general sentiment that I grew up in is that we (the us) were the bad guys. The sentiment I saw in north Vietnam was that they won by attrition and manipulating US public opinion. Going to Vietnam and seeing the agent orange museum was pretty shocking and dreadful. There was a general understanding we massacred women and children, but agent orange might have been a paragraph in a textbook taught clinically rather than emotionally. Bourdain's episode on Laos might have been the first time I heard about all the unexploded ordinance and mines. It's a pretty bad feeling. My entire experience with public education, there was no justification or defense of the war. There was one message. We were bad. All things considered, I don't think we have done/are doing as much as we should, but I also don't think we completely flouted any responsibility to Vietnam. I suppose my opinion doesn't matter very much, and it would be nice to hear from someone from Vietnam.