week 10- Vivianne Lee

        Gaining further knowledge on the country of Vietnam is significant to me, as I understood more clearly how Vietnam remade itself into a country currently thriving in economy and education. As it was previously known as a host to “revolutionary, civil, proxy, and conventional wars” (Rowan, page 1). According to the article“Start Up Vietnam”, Andrew P Rowan states that countries which were in war with Vietnam some being the United States, Japan and South Korea, are currently sending business people, investors and skilled workers to Vietnam. Furthermore, there are more than “thirty thousand Vietnamese students at institutions of higher education in the United States, Vietnam’s former enemy. Vietnamese students are the fifth-largest group of students in the United States from any country. ” (Rowan, page1). Aside from sending students to Vietnam, the United States is Vietnam’s largest export market exporting “USD $177 billion worth of goods” (Rowan, page 2). Vietnam has created substantial economic growth that it further experienced a rapid growth in population. According to the article within a span of thirty years Vietnam economy has turned into a “startup economy” with thousands of high growth enterprises. Thus, in order to continue achieving its maximum “national aesthetics” status of a country flourishing in economy and education, it must continue to carry on strong relations with foreign countries that take in their goods and students.







Works Cited: 
Rowan, Andrew. Startup Vietnam: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Socialist Republic. GKTA Group, 2018.