Week 8-Vietnam Part 2 By Ogee Erana

Week 8- Vietnam Part 2 by Ogee Erana

Capitalism and a capitalist economy in which Vietnam has made to reinvent themselves and also trying to cement its place in the global markets and societies. By conducting trade agreements (Gurtov), Vietnam has opened its ports and its people to the current global market. However, this has allowed for the reform that puts emphasis on product that other countries want and ignoring of issues such as the erasure of native people like the Cham and the Agent Orange aftermath.  Like with many other countries trying to pull themselves out of the devastations of war, a focus on the growth of industries is mostly the main concern for the country. Though this come with the success and the presentation of the prowess of the Vietnamese people, like many other countries are subjected to erasure of culture and history to make way for the global norm which happens to mean catering to and upholding western standards. This includes creating cheap labor, exploitation of indigenous people, and making sure actions by the western world stay muffled or hidden. Vietnam is showing those very signs and despite its reformations.

The slow climb up the ranks of the global economy as Pincus has mentioned is due to those inefficiencies of control and practices towards economy and its people that Vietnam has had.

Questions: These inefficiencies of economic and governmental practices, do the stem from the Vietnamese government and corporation choices? Or are they influenced by western people and ideologies? Why is this the norm?

Works Cited:

Cohn, Marjorie. "Agent Orange: Terrible Legacy of the Vietnam War." Huffington Post 1 May 2015. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marjorie-cohn/agent-orange-terrible-legacy_b_7189938.html>.

Gurtov, Mel. "The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Deeply Flawed Partnership." The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 13.20 (2015). Web. 20 Feb. 2016. <https://smartsite.ucdavis.edu/access/content/group/58e7fd2e-d414-41d6-98f9-cb933c1abad6/Weekly%20Readings/Week8/The%20Trans-Pacific%20Partnership-%20A%20Deeply%20Flawed%20Partnership.pdf>.

Pincus, Jonathan. "WHy Doesn't Vietnam Grow Faster: State Fragmentation and the Limits of Vent for Surplus Growth."Journal of Southeast Asian Economics 32.1 (2015): 26-51. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ase/summary/v032/32.1.pincus.html>.