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Thursday, August 11, 1966 THE TAR HEEL Page 7 The American Soldier Is Not A Good Diplomat By MIKE McGEE Seventh In A Series The average Vietnamese doesn't like Americans. At the very best he merely tolerates them. Vietnam has a strong, well developed culture, characterized by conservatism of thought and passivity of manner. It is a stern and rigid culture; the people have little sense of humor and rarely smile. Curiosity, even intellectual curiosity, is an invasion of privacy. The Americans are barbarians literally. They are loud, arrogant, boastful and venal. They are indelicate and not to be trusted. They laugh constantly, tell jokes and criticize every thing. The Vietnamese is proud of his culture. His personal con ceit borders on the fanatical. From this well of conceit flows the mainstream of riots and resistance to foreign domination. He insists on being ruled by a hero. An ordinary general or statesman is not good enough. His prejudice is not limited to Americans. It includes Euro peans, Negroes, Indians, and other Asians. The Chinese are fil thy, greedy people. Cambodians are lazy. Vietnam is at the cen ter of an ascending Asia culture. The students in Saigon expressed the other day what I think is the big question being asked all over Vietnam. When are the U. S. troops going to leave? They want the U. S. to state that the troops will leave by some set date. They just want something more than the Johnsonian "When, the job is done; when the great plan is fulfilled." We owe them more than generalities. During the Buddhist riots this spring I asked a Buddhist woman in Saigon what the problem was. She was very definite. "At the Honolulu conference Ky sold Vietnam to the United States for a period of 8 years." Two weeks after Ky returned from Honolulu big headlines appeared in ths local papers: "Ky announced no more poor people in two years." Straight out of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Ky certainly can't do that. But maybe father Lyndon can. 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