Modern pop is the most popular genre of music in Vietnam today. It is highly influenced by Chinese pop, South Korean pop and Japanese pop in both performance and fashion styles. Giang: American pop is also very popular. After pop comes rock, heavy metal and hip-hop.
How did the Vietnam War affect society?
The Vietnam War severely damaged the U.S. economy. Unwilling to raise taxes to pay for the war, President Johnson unleashed a cycle of inflation. The war also weakened U.S. military morale and undermined, for a time, the U.S. commitment to internationalism. The war in Vietnam deeply split the Democratic Party.
What is the culture and tradition of Vietnam?
Most people of Vietnam identify with the three major religions of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. Catholic followers are also growing in the nation. The Vietnamese also practice ancestor worship quite rigorously. Ancestor altars are set up at homes or offices of the people.
How did the Cold War affect popular culture?
The “paranoid style,” which the scholar Richard Hofstadter defined as a recurrent feature of American politics culminating during the Cold War, also affected the cultural production of the era. The repression of political dissent in the early 1950s, known as McCarthyism, affected popular culture.
Why did hippies protest the Vietnam War?
The hippie movement began the way hippies liked to express their opposition, through small peaceful sit-ins. Obviously hippies were for peace so innocent people and even those not innocent losing their lives was reason enough to protest. Another reason hippies were protesting the war was because of the draft.
What is the main religion of Vietnam?
Buddhism is the largest of the major world religions in Vietnam, with about ten million followers. It was the earliest foreign religion to be introduced in Vietnam, arriving from India in the second century A.D. in two ways, the Mahayana sect via China, and the Hinayana sect via Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.
How did the Vietnam War impact domestic life?
The Vietnam War had a profound effect on America. Domestically, the unpopularity of the war led to the end of the military draft in 1973, and since then, the U.S. has yet to conscript troops from the general population again. The war also drastically decreased Americans’ trust in political leaders.
Why was the Vietnam War significant?
It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. It was the first war to come into American living rooms nightly, and the only conflict that ended in defeat for American arms. The war caused turmoil on the home front, as anti-war protests became a feature of American life.
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