The Youth of Vietnam

I recently returned from a trip to Ho Chi Minh City during Tet. It has been almost 30 years since the end of the Vietnam War and 15 or so since Vietnam started economic reforms and the opening to western tourism, but the youth of today seem to know little of and care less about past history. They are out in the nightclubs listening to mind-numbing techno and American rap. We visited one such club and, as two slightly aging white males, were treated with a fair degree of friendliness despite being both the only foreigners in the place and the only ones over 40 (or 25 for that matter).

I really think Ho Chi Minh would be rolling over in his grave, and I wouldn't blame him as I also find it depressing to see the place go the same way as every where else in this homogenized, globalized, and doomed world.