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Of all the complaints about Miss Saigon to reach a literary crescendo, the most common complaint is the continued depiction of Asian women surviving U.S.-led wars in the Pacific region, not only women defined as whores, but also the women of representatives of their nations. This works to masculinize American society over Vietnamese society. The author’s underlying theme makes it possible to consistently recreate the United States and its males as heroic demigods, and women and their countries as whores of the world. 6 works cited. jvMSaign.rtf
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the Pacific region, not only women defined as whores, but also the women of representatives of their nations. This works to masculinize American society over Vietnamese society. The
authors underlying theme makes it possible to consistently recreate the United States and its males as heroic demigods, and women and their countries as whores of the world.
This is the case with Miss Saigon, a play that on some levels is a ill-fated love story, but it cannot be ignored
that the emotional construct of the play relies on the stereotype that war reduces women lovers to whores while exalting male lovers to heroes. When the associations are raised
to the cultural level, Vietnam is a whore used by the U.S. male psyche to exalt its failed war heroes into social heroes. For Chris/America, he has everything.
For Kim, there is no place, no life, no hope and no change. Johns Political Machinations
Miss Saigon shows a new level of concern and intent, for its day, to show the world that the United States was willing to take responsibilities for its war
babies, which it did not do after World War II. However, even in this, the message is that America saves the day, while Vietnam refuses to raise its interracial
children. It further states that Vietnam refuses to acknowledge and support the women in its society who were forced as girls into sexual service by war and also by
their parents. America becomes the hero again by stepping in and taking responsibility for this social dilemma across the Pacific ocean. The American government is represented in the character
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