>should've of
Holy shit lmao
Why do Americans always bring up WW2?
Jacob Ramirez
Ryder Hernandez
yuros like to give bantz but can't take it. Color me surprised.
Isaiah Baker
After the Vietnam War, the US had an identity crisis over its character after such a traumatic political and socially damaging conflict. So people starting looking back to World War II to shape a new identity of America as the good cowboy as the standard, with the Vietnam War being the tragic deviation from that standard.
As a consequence it formed a new mindset in which all of America's problems could and necessarily should be solved with force.
Just look at Reagan's violent presidency.
In parallel and fueling this WWII nostolgia was a sleu of WWII books, novels, movies, and later video games celebrating the US's role in the Second World War. The conflict is attractive because it provides a time and image of America as unquestionably the "good guys," in contrast to the "bad guy" it played in Southeast Asia.
Pic is written by a WWII vet and worth a coronavirus read if you are interested.
Matthew Harris
America will never let go of the past. You think WW2 is bad, remember how they never let go of 9/11 and think that people around the world still carea for that.
Cameron Mitchell
I'll put it on my list, thanks
Jaxson Garcia
>Just look at Reagan's violent presidency
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Christopher Sanchez
they even say to Finns "without us you'd be speaking russian" even tho we are not even in NATO
Andrew Moore
Sounds like a good read, Thanks.
Joshua Gray
I should clarify that the book mostly focuses on demythologizing common misconceptions Americans have about WWII because he believes these myths have constructed a dangerous lens by which the US sees the world.
He talks about the Vietnam stuff for maybe 1-2 pages in the introduction. I got around halfway through the book before my grad studies picked back up again so I might be wrong, though.
Gabriel Cook
It's not just WW2 but military in general.
Storytime:
I'm German but grew up here. Went to school with a couple of Balkan guys and in 11th grade we also got American exchange student.
We would often banter about our nationalities, but whenever he joined he would only say something related to the military like "we bombed [city], but you guys deserved it, right? Haha". Everybody got quickly tired of this and started to respond by yelling "RICEFARMER" that would shut him up. Eventually he no longer talked to most of our class.
Then one day he got into a heated argument with our Serbs (1 guy, 2 girls) to which he started to rant that the USA should have annihilated Serbia back then. The Serb guy stood up and beat the shit out of him. Later the American asked our Albanians why they didn't help him since they hated Serbs too, but they just told him that he was an idiot and deserved what he got.