Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!venera.isi.edu!cew From: cew@venera.isi.edu (Craig E. Ward) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Call for Discussion soc.culture.vietnam Summary: Touchy subject. What would it really be about? Message-ID: <11479@venera.isi.edu> Date: 19 Jan 90 20:05:54 GMT References: <21182@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: cew@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Craig E. Ward) Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California Lines: 23 In article <21182@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> tam@vega.uucp () writes: >What does one think of when one hears of the word "Vietnam"? > - the war: American involvement, the dead, the wounded (physically > and emotionally), the MIAs? This will be the Big Issue at first and I wonder would this make it more a "soc.culture.us-experience-in-vietnam" group than a vietnam group? Not that this would be bad but be aware of what you're getting into. I will support the creation of "soc.culture.vietnam." Too many younger Americans (wait a minute, I'm not old) don't know about what went on there (or where it is on a world map) and too many others are too eager to draw flawed conclusions using it in analogies in situations such as El Salvador. And after this part of the road has been traveled, it can get to the other topics tam listed and we all can get to know Vietnam without so much excess baggage from the 1945-1975 period. Oh yes, I do know where Vietnam is on the map. -- Craig E. Ward Slogan: "nemo me impune lacessit" USPS: USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1100 Marina del Rey, CA 90292