cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6484299
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/06/23/1-americas-global-image/
America’s image is mostly positive among the Asian nations polled. Particularly large majorities see the U.S. favorably in the Philippines (92%), South Korea (84%) and Vietnam (77%).
It’s from 2015 but more recent polls have found similar data IIRC
79% of people polled in Vietnam chose the US in the “Preferred alignment choice in U.S.-China rivalry” which is a different metric obviously but still points towards the same idea
Edit: According to Luna Oi, Pew Research Center is a neoliberal think tank that cannot be trusted on anything about Vietnam
Tbh most people dont really hold much intergenerational resentment against other countries unless that country’s still actively being hostile against them or like there’s an actual propaganda apparatus encouraging it. In the case of vietnam, regardless of americas past atrocities against them, what they currently are to them is a rich trading partner that buys a load of their exports and gives their government favourable treatment to persuade it away from aligning closer with china.
I have a couple of vietnamese friends with family still in vietnam and according to them its mainly only older Vietnamese people who hold actual grudges against americans
I’ve heard the same thing as well, that it was the older generation that still remember and are worried the younger generation will forget. I don’t blame them for it in the slightest; what was done to them was absolutely horrifying. The winter soldier testimony to congress contained some of the most horrific acts of barbarity I’d ever heard, only overshadowing what happened at Nanjing because it happened to far more people.