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The Vietnam War produced a profound impact upon the world at large, and upon the countries of the United States and of Vietnam in particular. There are several reasons why the effects of this martial encounter have reverberated for these two nations as much as they have -- the war lasted for several decades and involved numerous participants from both sides. As such, the clashing of cultures and of values that took place in this armed conflict could not help but to change the respective people and processes in both nations. For the U.S., this affair will forever be recollected as one of the few (if not the only) prolonged act of belligerence which it could not 'win'. For Vietnam, the war started the inexorable process of modernizing this quaint, simple rustic country and of transforming its people and their ways according to Western influence. Therefore, the ultimate effect of the Vietnam War on Vietnamese society is it both modernized and effectively westernized this country.
In analyzing the degree to which Vietnamese society was both modernized and westernized, there are several facets of Vietnamese culture -- which is perhaps best exemplified by their manifestations within Le Ly, author and protagonist of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey From War to Peace -- to consider. One of the most obvious pertains to principles of economics. Whereas the economy in Vietnam was largely agrarian prior to the inception of this martial encounter, the Vietnam War produced a significant degree of complexity in the economy by introducing both capitalism and communism. Although there are social ramifications of both of these systems, their principle difference is in their economic standpoints. The capitalist influence, which is perhaps best personified by the Republican side which was backed by the U.S., certainly alludes to a Westernized, modern influence -- especially when compared to Marxist Communism. The extremes in the economy wrought by the war are best illustrated in the character Ahn who, early on in the book, is a wealthy capitalist with all of the material trappings it can bring, and later on, has lost virtually all of his wealth due to the war and its devastating effect. These extremes in economic fate and in economic principles certainly are attributed to the Western influence, which also helped to modernize Vietnam.
There was also a discernible difference in the cultural values that the Western influence produced within Vietnam society during and after this martial encounter. Conventional Vietnamese culture was agrarian, relatively simple and slow, with a value system that prized tenets of Buddhist thought and a harmony with one's surroundings. Modernized Western culture, however, is significantly more fast-paced, transient, and dependent on technology and ephemeral factors such as money. Le Ly and her family were caught in this culture clash, especially the young woman who eventually abandons her homeland and take ups with Westernized men and their ways and produce children for them. In the process of doing so, Ly learns how to "be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold" (Hayslip). Part of the letting go that she does in this book is letting go of her culture and replacing it with westernized ways. Although she never completely abandons her Vietnamese heritage, she certainly supplements a healthy dosage of it with American traditions. Her family members, however, large do not -- which contributes to some of the "confusion" for Ly in the previous quotation. Still, the overall effect of the war on the cultural values of Vietnam is that they expanded to contain Western values, which Ly's life ultimately demonstrates most dramatically.
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