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This 5 page paper looks at the escalation of the war as related to the cold war and American imperialism. These issues are explored along with the other events and attitudes also related to the war. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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still is, there were reasons for going into the quagmire. Indeed, it is not as if Vietnam was something where there was a decision as to whether or not to
enter or begin a war. In fact, the mission started quite innocently when the United States wanted to help a people who were oppressed. As part of Vietnam was communist,
and the United States sought to stop communism during the period, there was good reason to help the South Vietnamese. However, although it is true that at least to some
extent, the war began as a mission to assist the oppressed in the art of war and was not meant to put U.S. lives at risk, it was not long
before things would escalate and U.S. troops were put on the front lines. American attitudes to some extent was responsible for what occurred. Today, many criticize the nation for
its imperialism. America thinks it is better than every other country and even within the U.S. itself, there are factions who agree with the rest of the world. America has
an attitude problem. In fact, in terms of Americanization discourse, a troubling concept is that of cultural and media imperialism and Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate
has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). Interestingly, cultural criticism has in recent years started to rethink "America" as a coherent identity, and instead reconsider
the United States as existing within a changing international system (Grainge, 2001). Americanization theory shifts the discussion of national influence and power from coercive models that are entrenched in
imperial domination to the more complex and partial dynamics of the global system (2001). Globalization has transformed spatial and territorial categories in such a way as to significantly complicated
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